“Call it Permanent Capitalist Multiculturalism, in which the business elite continually uses immigration to knock the legs out from under unions and working class solidarity. And to think: Some people still wonder why the Republicans have won seven of the ten presidential elections since the immigration liberalization of 1965!”
“We live in an age of disintegration. At the beginning of the 20th century there were 60 nation states. Today there are 190, most of them poor and highly unstable. The real story lies in the cities. Throughout the world urbanization, with all of its fickle and forlorn promises, has drawn people by the millions into squalor.” And: “True peace and security for the 21st century will only come about when we find a way to address the underlying issues of disparity, dislocation and dispossession that have provoked the madness of our age.”