'While others play by the rules, the most powerful nation refuses,' writes George Monbiot. 'If this country were a person, we'd call it a psychopath. As it is not a person, we should call it what it is: a rogue state.'
. While others play by the rules, the most powerful nation refuses. If this country were a person, we'd call it a psychopath. As it is not a person, we should call it what it is: a rogue state.
"The question that assails those who strive for a kinder world is always the same but endlessly surprising: How do we persuade others to care?" he continued."The lack of interest in resolving our existential crises, expressed by the U.S. Senate in particular, is not a passive exceptionalism. It is an active, proud, and furious refusal to care about the lives of others. This refusal has become the motive force of the old-new politics now sweeping the world.
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