Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.

Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.

The neoconservative doctrine declares that it is the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy to prevent the rise of any country that would have sufficient power to serve as a check on American unilateralism. This neoconservative doctrine puts Russia and China in Washington's crosshairs.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.

The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.

Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.