It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being made out of green cheese - it does not….

Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the international fina….

Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a huge propaganda campaign ….

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way….

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be….

Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and….

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly ho….

In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview with the Wall St Journal in….

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster….

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detes….

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments..

Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not th….

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns..

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way..

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment..

Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition from sailing ship to tele….

It turned out that [Bill] Clinton had authorized Texaco to illegally ship oil to the military junta [in Haiti] during a time when we were supposedly ….

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are l….

Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages….

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explor….

Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they migh….