American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.
You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.