Arundhati Roy: Bush's cabinet "thugs"

Never late than never. Transcript of a fantastic speech by novelist-activist-public intellectual Arundhati Roy about "Public Power in the Age of Empire" given in San Francisco in August. In this speech the author of the wonderful best-seller "The God Of Small Thing" generated some of her biggest responses when she urged the United States to immediately pull its troops from Iraq and "pay reparations" to Iraqis, criticized John Kerry and other Democrats ("How dare the Democrats not be anti-war!") and described President Bush's Cabinet as "thugs." A must-read!