Christianity and nationalism are incompatible. Why would an all-seeing, all-loving god pick Americans to favor above all others. And yet huge numbers of Americans regard their country as God’s most favoured nation. “It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in …
I would like to return to the question of the Green parties. The Green party in the UK is, in comparison to the (apparent) position in the US, more organised and effective, positioning itself as the “real opposition” to the governing coalition. Its ambition is to replace Labour as the left-wing opposition, and members attack …
I have been asked what I think of both the American and the British Green Parties. Normally, this would not be an appropriate blog to talk about party politics, but I was interested in the question, mainly because the existing political parties are in such a mess, bought by special interests, that one has to …
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Below is the web address for Glenn Greenwald’s commentary on the CIA torture report: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/09/live-coverage-release-senate-torture-report/ It seems that the leaders of the free world handed moslem captives over to sadists, who did disgusting things to them. A century of moralizing by nationalistic Americans now has the rest of the world laughing at, and now ignoring, …
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Francis Fukayama is the man who predicted the “end of history”. He has recently put forward a new theory: the unlikelihood of successful human government in view of the fact that human beings are hard wired to favor their relatives first, their friends second, and strangers absolutely last. In many parts of the world, he …
