To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.