If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.