If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.

I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

Some things come with their own punishments.

Things can change in a day.

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?