It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the mem… - Arundhati Roy

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.

I speak of Iraq, not because everybody is talking about it, (sadly at the cost of leaving other horrors in other places to unfurl in the dark), but because it is a sign of things to come. Iraq marks the beginning of a new cycle. It offers us an opportunity to watch the Corporate-Military cabal that has come to be known as 'Empire' at work. In the new Iraq the gloves are off.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.