Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of h….
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destru….
You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at least lar….
In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget ….
The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand..
The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel..
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to..
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the Republican leaders….
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 19….
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denie….
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in w….
The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them.
I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing ever….
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant of state capit….
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution..
Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space..
It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs..
Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan and are ruled by a….
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control..
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to ….
If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israe….