My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good listener, and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic,...

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in...

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and...

For a journalist working in Gaza or the Occupied Territories, a PRESS badge offers limited protection at best. For a Palestinian journalist, it clearly offers none at all.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves...

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.