The Toxic Innocence Of Empire: The US And Israel, Forever Blameless, Always Pure In Motive

On the madness of perpetual war and imperialist overreach

There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s perpetual crimes against humanity. Both can be traced to a Western settler-colonialist worldview possessed by a sense of insatiable entitlement, and the psychological carnage concomitant to a citizenry given to …