"We are not a benign hegemon, this is not a peaceful democracy, this is not what you think it is. This is a malevolent empire, the US regime is a malevolent empire; and behind all the nice words, all the flowery language - about who we are and our democracy - behind all of that is real hard power. Real hard power; and they're willing to back it up: behind all of that is a global conspiracy of the most powerful people in the world, and they control communication; transportation; finance; the currency, and the flow of information. That's what underlies the whole thing, and their advantage - their profit - and their benefit - that's what it's all about. And they can dress it up real nice and talk about "our democracy" and "he's like Churchill" and all this kind of stuff, but its a big protection racket, it is a global criminal syndicate. Make no mistake about it."