"Creating a regional security framework involving all of Iraq's neighbors and ceding political and eventual military control to the United Nations is way forward to national dialogue, and a way out of the current quagmire."

"The triumph of the warfare state degrades and suppresses us all. Even before the weapons perform as guaranteed."

Mexicans and Canadians do not want to be incorporated into the United States, and they are ambivalent about adopting the American dollar, but they are more willing to become part of a single country of North America and of a unified currency, like the “Amero..."

-- Robert Pastor

"...deadly avoidance comes when powerful news executives do the bidding of the Pentagon -- and then, later on, claim that they did nothing of the kind."

"Unless we disabuse ourselves of our fundamental conceit we cannot see that the U.S. has abandoned individual freedom, equality and the rule of law for concentration camps, genocide, enforced conformity, propaganda, hatred and intellectual censorship."

"It was Abraham Lincoln who said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." And it was me who added, "beware of a voter scorned."

"There’s no point in waiting for members of Congress to be heroic. When we’re blessed with the living examples of a few genuine visionaries in office, they should inspire us to realize our own possibilities. Ultimately, our own actions -- and inaction -- are at issue."

"The American media establishment continues to behave like a leviathan with a monkey on its back -- hooked on militarism and largely hostile to the creative intervention that democracy requires."