UPROOTED PALESTINIANS: SALAM ALQUDS ALAYKUM
By Caitlin Johnstone
We each have a miniature John Bolton living rent-free inside our heads, ruining our peace and promoting world domination at every opportunity.
Hear me out.
The most common objection I hear when I advocate non-interventionist foreign policy can essentially be boiled down to something like, “But- but- but if we’re not controlling the world all the time, then the world will be out of our control!” The argument, as I understand it, is that if the US-centralized empire stopped waging endless wars, staging coups, inflicting siege warfare upon civilian populations, patrolling the skies with flying death robots, arming terrorist militias, and torturing journalists who expose US war crimes, the bad guys might win.
The thing I find funny about this argument, apart from the obvious, is that this is also the basic objection that the mind makes when the body is seated in meditation.
“This is all…
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