American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.
Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.
Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.