Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'.

There was an international conference going on in Morocco that was a follow up for the Paris conference - to put some teeth in the Paris agreements. ….

The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our ….

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie ab….

It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the nature and significance of the ….

What matters is what happens among the powerful..

Just recently, the administration of Barack Obama, which has broken all sorts of records in regards to deportation, picked up a Guatemalan man living….

I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would….

We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate work - lends subs….

In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they ….

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By ….

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes..

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repre….

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than….

The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not func….

There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these th….

Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008 NATO forma….

I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts. ….

A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy ….

There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents, ….

In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions t….