It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system su….

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli..

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for sm….

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization..

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the ….

I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and justice and s….

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must ….

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most America….

There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth'….

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children..

I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power ….

The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake i….

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and th….

The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is….

I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, thoug….

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing fo….

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have….

That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of wha….

Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he had a mandate. He snuck into the presidency wit….

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just….

The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of spee….