“So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.”

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.

The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.