[re protest over acquittal of white police officer in shooting of Michael Brown]

It's at the core of the American political, social and national identity. This is the only question that exists in the development of America today - Thanksgiving. We celebrate this mythology that is completely, completely fraudulent of an indigenous population that was slaughtered to make room for colonial settlers from Europe.

You have an unarmed teenager shot by a white cop, but the deeper issue is that this is the tip of the iceberg. Even as this decision was coming down, another black youth - a 12-year old, Tamir Rice - was shot playing with a toy gun on a playground in Cleveland, Ohio.

The independence movement is well established - but at the center of it are some leaders who are very much insiders - like Mas, Junqueras. The question is whether or not this kind of plebescite has any meaning, even before the meeting with the central government.

This war is the gift that keeps on giving in capitalism for maintaining this global Ponzi scheme where you have this pyramid with a few people at the top being super, super rich and there are massive humanity at the bottom who are basically starving. War has to have an enemy, so you have to be able to label people and tell the commoners ‘who is who’, and who is the person they shouldn’t trust and should fear, so that we can keep funding these wars.

[when asked about a report that a US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) is fighting the ISIL terrorist group over a key supply route]

It’s kind of hard to comment on stories from within the US propaganda machines. The US would like to have a regime change in both countries. The FSA is currently battling the ISIL group in north of Aleppo, Syria. In the meantime, the Obama administration is trying to devise a strategy to deal with a force that US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says is 'beyond anything we have ever seen.'

ISIS is their baby, so they're going to come in and put airstrikes onto ISIS when ISIS is actually funded by their allies: Saudia Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, the Gulf monarchies. So what they're doing - and notice that this is fairly limited ...they're talking about pinpoint airstrikes.

[on Barak Obama's visit to Europe, his menacing statements toward Russia, and the cynical irony of Ukraine's neo-nazi shock troops slaughtering civilians in the east as backdrop to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of D-Day]

Q: Obama pledges 1 billion dollar funds to increase US military deployments to Eastern Europe - what message is he sending to Putin.

He's telling Vladamir Putin that he is an enemy and that he will stop at nothing to continue the encirclement of Russia at all costs.

I'm glad we're talking about Latin America ..the birthplace, the proving ground; there was a training camp called the School of the Americas in the southern United States where generals and para-military and officers from several of the dictatorships in Latin America were brought for special training. There was a CIA handbook that became famous because it was leaked to the public in the late 80's, which was incredibly embarrassing because it was basically a blueprint for how to stage a coup.

He said the operation needs to be more 'efficient' and we see what that means today. 
Shelling against civilians, bombs that fall on apartment blocks, fighter jets and helicopter gunships and grad launchers against urban populations.

They're concerned about wages, first of all; they're not getting paid enough to make a living. These are very standard and ordinary concerns about miners and workers in general. And they're concerned about the future of the Ukraine economy as well as they're own - increasingly political - future.

Turchynov wants to bait the Russians into intervening and spark a war between Russia and NATO. Because that's the only reason that Turchynov can hold power and not have to scurry back to Italy.

[re protests after grand jury refuses to issue an indictment of office who killed Eric Garner]

This has the potential to be a really huge conflagration, and I'll tell you why. There is no reform that can address this. There is nothing that the system can say. Here's what we're saying: don't kill our children - it's a completely non-negotiable demand.

The junta [in Kiev] is holding on to power very tentatively, although the people who took over the Lvov prosecutor's office seem to be fascists as well, that’s what people in Kharkov and Donetsk are telling me. They see it more as an inter-fascist squabble. But the important thing that you can see from it is that they are having trouble holding power even in the West where they should have firm control. 

> 2015