Occupation: Writer Birth: October 21, 1943
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanat….
All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but….
Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting..
As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish stat….
The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can ….
There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam..
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression..
People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't ma….
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagon….
The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United S….
Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a vers….
The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world..
Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It'….
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane..
The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state..
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's bette….
Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it's been more or less co….
In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many….
After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world..
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival….
If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestin….