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The abiding defect of U.S. foreign policy? It's isolationism, my friend. Purporting to steer clear of war, isolationism fosters it. Isolationism impedes the spread of democracy. It inhibits trade and therefore prosperity. It allows evildoers to get away with murder. Isolationists prevent the United States from accomplishing its providentially assigned global mission.

Barbara Ehrenreich comments on working in America

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone." the man with the meat cleaver said. "Your people will never be safe. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying by British soldiers everyday. We must fight them as they fight us.

At PaintedMatter: Paintings, drawings, digital and photographic work. An archival retrospective, a store with cool stuff, and many web projects.

Plenty of research shows that our minds have evolved to over-attribute agency to the surrounding world and patterns to the shape of human affairs. Several researchers have begun to explore how we attribute purposes and design to other people (e.g. when we say about a romantic partner that he or she was put on earth [...]

In the early years of Thatcher I remember a conversation with a triumphant right-winger (a self-described bastard) in which he snorted with disdain about 'people who care.' I knew what he meant and I still do.

Join the FDL Book Salon with Max Blumenthal, hosted by Edward Teller this Saturday at 2:00pm PST. In 2009, soon after finishing his bestselling look at authoritarian underpinnings of the evangelical core of the USA's militant new right, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, Max Blumenthal went to work on his next book.

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