how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

The life you live will be enrich with every journey you made.

I love 'Maxim, ' actually. It's very cool.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Israel is very much endangering.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.