Around the World in Eighty Days

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.