The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
States are not moral agents.
Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.
I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'
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 detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
