Index Research: The Pentagon and Oil By Sarah Meyer
Evo Morales hands out gas bonanza fairly, critics left looking stupid, Inca Kola News
Decoding Obama on Iraq by Anthony Arnove
Obama and the real power behind the throne-to-be By Eric Walberg July 23, 2008
Media Alert: Some Matter More - When 47 Victims Are Worth 43 Words
National Security Archive Update, July 22, 2008
Court Agrees to Release of Most Rosenberg Grand Jury Materials,
Orders Government to Determine Status of Additional Witnesses
Life In the ‘Post Political’ Age By Anonymous
European economies unravel By Martin Walker
Ecosocialism: Working Towards a Definition By Jasper Richardson
July 22, 2008
Published in the hope of stirring some conversation
New on Bolivia Rising
Bolivia: MAS, opposition prepare for recall referendums By Federico Fuentes, 19 July 2008
Evo Morales accuses sectors of the workers movement of being “instruments of the empire” July 19, 2008
GI Special 6G12 21 July, 2008: No Fobbits On This Trip
New on Climate & Capitalism
Indigenous Community in Argentina Votes to Ban Canadian Mine July 21, 2008
Assembly rejects plans by B.C. company to do in Argentina what it can’t do in its home territory
Palestine in the Middle East (Part 1)
Iran Newslinks 20-21 July 2008
O-Bummer by Bruce Gagnon
ICH 20 July 2008: Democrats Are The Real Problem
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 20 July, 2008
New on Bolivia Rising:
As recall referendum approaches, Chavez, Lula offer aid to Morales By Ana Maria Fabbri, 18 July 2008
Food price rise has Bolivia's coca farmers planting rice instead of cocaine
SINAHOTA, Bolivia — Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: Persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient.
New on Climate & Capitalism 19 July, 2008
Cuba Offers Unused Land to Small Farmers
Raul Castro: “We have to go back to the earth! We have to make it start producing!”
Demography and Women’s Rights
Uruk Net Iraq News 19 July, 2008
Counter Currents Newsletter 19/07/08 – A Sufi Perspective On World Peace
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 19 July, 2008
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, on the WTO’s round of negotiations, July 18, 2008
GI Special 6G11 20 July, 2008: "You Just Feel Betrayed"
GI Special 6G10 19 July, 2008: 45% Say Afghanistan Not Worth It
CounterCurrents Newsletter 18 July, 2008 – The Zionist Power Configuration In America And Israel’s War with Iran
ICH 18 July, 2008: Help Send Karl Rove to Jail
ICH 17 July, 2008: Ray McGovern: Israel Planning a September/October Surprise?
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 18 July, 2008
New on Bolivia Rising, 18 July, 2008:
Bolivia: Power to the People By Lawrence Goodman
The Russians are back! By Gaither Stewart
Deep in the capitalist doo-doo By William Bowles
Queen ready to give Assent to Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill - Rush to judgement - Liberty be damned !!!!

Imagine what the mainstream media would have said if these were Palestinian children.
Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 2/14/08)
Agrofuel Company Violently Represses Indigenous Communities In Guatemala July 16, 2008
Rights Action calls for protests against Inter-American Development Bank policies that fund agrofuel monoculture
ICH 16 July, 2008: “Ron Paul: – Something Big is Happening”
Uruk Net Iraq News 16 July, 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 16 July, 2008
Obama outlines policy of endless war By Bill Van Auken 16 July 2008
An occupation by any other name July 15, 2008
For supporters drawn to his pledge to withdraw from Iraq, Barack Obama's latest talk about "refining" his position has left them feeling betrayed.
MidEast Dispatches: Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail
GI Special 6G9 17 July, 2008: Fort Carson - "Extreme Discontent"
IPS 16 July, 2008: Obama Takes Offensive in Foreign Policy Speech
GI Special 6G8 16 July, 2008: "Force Our Leaders To Submit"
IWT – The Real News Network 15 July, 2008
Ten lessons from recent torture hearings
ANP: Lawyers who approved “enhanced interrogation tactics” are under increasing pressure to explain them view video
Fannie and Freddie symptoms of larger problem
AFL-CIO economist says this system amounts to “Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor” view video
Is Iran a “threat to peace and security”?
Sahimi: No evidence that Iran’s nuclear program poses a threat (4/6) view video
CounterCurrents Newsletter 14 July, 2008 – Will Israel And/Or The U.S. Attack Iran?
Iran Newslinks 15-16 July 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 15 July, 2008
ICH 15 July, 2008: “Help Me!” – Guantanamo Interrogation Video Released
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 15 July, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 14 July, 2008
The Week with IPS, 14 July 2008: Gaza Locked In Despite Truce
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 14 July, 2008
ICH 14 July, 2008: Bush Backs Israeli Plan for Strike on Iran
CounterCurrents Newsletter 13 July, 2008 – Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse ‘Imminent’
Uruk Net Iraq News 13 July, 2008
The Great Social-Political Divide: Left or Right and The Crowded Rightwing Life Rafts By Gaither Stewart
CounterCurrents Newsletter 11 July, 2008 – Imagine A World Without Money
RESISTANCE By Gaither Stewart
SYMBOLISM, IDEOLOGY AND REVOLUTION By Gaither Stewart
Murdering God: Of Shotguns, American Capitalism and Moral Expediency By Jason Miller
GI Special 6G7 13, July, 2008: Army Sergeant!
Uruk Net Iraq News 12 July, 2008
War, war, war or jaw, jaw, jaw? By William Bowles
CounterCurrents Newsletter 10 July, 2008 – The Nuclear Deal And Democracy
GI Special 6G6: "Defiance, Rebellion And Resistance"
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 12 July, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 11 July, 2008
GI Special 6G5 11 July, 2008: "Cast Off The Shackles"
Social revolution in Bolivia?
Review of Revolutionary Horizons: Past and present in Bolivian politics, Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson, By Sarah Hines
High Culture – Low Values By William Bowles, 11 July, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 10 July, 2008
New on Climate & Capitalism, July 10, 2008
Ecuadorian Assembly Approves Constitutional Rights for Nature
On July 7, the 130-member Ecuador Constitutional Assembly, elected countrywide to rewrite the country’s Constitution, voted to approve articles that recognize rights for nature and ecosystems.
G8 Moves Backward on Climate Change
Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network
ICH 11 July, 2008: US ‘Killed 47 Afghan Civilians’, 39 of them women and children
GI Special 6G4 11 July, 2008: Hell No, He Won't Go
ICH 10 July, 2008: The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 10 July, 2008
MEDIA ALERT: NEWS INTERNATIONAL THREATENS MEDIA LENS WITH LEGAL AND POLICE ACTION, July 10th, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 9 July, 2008
ICH 9 July, 2008: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Paul Craig Roberts, Mike Whitney, Philip Weiss, Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and more
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 9 July, 2008
GI Special 6G3 9 July, 2008: Afghan Clusterbation
Uruk Net Iraq News 8 July, 2008
ICH 8 July, 2008: Iraq Insists on U.S. Withdrawal Timetable: official
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 8 July, 2008
Eight Mistaken Theses of Fidel Castro By James Petras
CounterCurrents Newsletter 7 July, 2008 – The Permanent Occupation
Perspectives on the U.S. Financial Crisis By Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
ICH 7 July, 2008: Bush’s Blood-Orgy in Somalia
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 7 July, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 6 July, 2008
The June ColdType is here
The Communist Bugaboo By Gaither Stewart
Five Years On By William Bowles, 7 July, 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 6 July, 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 5 July, 2008
ICH 5 July, 2008: Why I’m Not Patriotic: 4th Of July Weekend Edition
Uruk Net Iraq News 5 July, 2008
The Revolution on Hold – Departmental Autonomy and the Crisis of the Left in Bolivia By Andrew Lyubarsky, July, 01 2008
Zimbabwe: Finding a workable solution to the crisis
Statement by the African National Congress
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 4 July, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 4 July, 2008
CounterCurrents Newsletter 3 July, 2008 – Iraq Oil Deals Fulfill Cheney’s Goals
ICH 3 July, 2008: The Rise of Food Fascism
Uruk Net Iraq News 3 July, 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 3 July, 2008
CounterCurrents Newsletter 2 July, 2008 – Are Pakistani Nukes In Safe Hands?
Uruk Net Iraq News 2 July, 2008
ICH 2 July, 2008: Resolution calls for embargo against Iran
South Africa’s COSATU Demands Democracy in Zimbabwe
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 2 July, 2008
GI Special 6G1 2 July, 2008: From Baghdad
CounterCurrents Newsletter 1 July, 2008 – Iran On The Offensive
Uruk Net Iraq News 1 July, 2008
ICH 1 July, 2008: Iran Is Not The Belligerent Party
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 1 July, 2008
June Uruk Net Zipped
June Information Clearing House Zipped
From journalistic triumph to torture for a young Palestinian By John Pilger
IPS 30 June, 2008: Israelis Assault Award-Winning IPS Journalist
New on Bolivia Rising 30 June, 2008
The Rise of Food Fascism: Allied to Global Agribusiness, Agrarian Elite Foments Coup in Bolivia By Roger Burbach
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 29 June, 2008
ICH 29 June, 2008: Seymour M. Hersh: Bush Preparing the Battlefield
GI Special 6F19 29 June, 2008: How It Is
Uruk Net Iraq News 28 June 2008
Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate By William Bowles, 29 June, 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 28 June, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 27 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 26 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 24 June 2008
Ecosocialist Manifesto: Comment Deadline Extended.
Make your views known by July 15
GI Special 6F18 June 28, 2008: Desertions Up 92%
New on Climate & Capitalism June 27, 2008
Green Fascism and the Greening of Hate
Population control — the ideology of the green right
ICH 27 June, 2008: “Chomsky: US Public Irrelevant”
ICH 26 June, 2008: Charles Sullivan: Elections, Capitalism, And Democracy
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 27 June, 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 26 June, 2008
Haaretz owner: Citizenship Law Makes Israel an Apartheid State
Zionism’s Dead End By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Bolivia rising June 27, 2008: Alvaro Garcia Linera: Catastrophic equilibrium and point of bifurcation By Álvaro García Linera, vice-president of Bolivia
Bolivia Rising June 24th, 2008: Bolivia Straddles Between Popular Reform and Illegal Resistance
Two members from a rightwing Santa Cruz youth group were arrested outside the Trompillo airport on June 19 with a rifle, telescopic sight, and 300 rounds of ammunition in a purported assassination attempt on President Evo Morales. In an unprecedented and highly questionable move, the accused were freed the very next day by a Santa Cruz attorney sympathetic to their separatist cause. This potentially violent scenario is telling of the fractious nature of politics currently...
IPS 26 June, 2008: Indigenous peoples – Keeping an Eye on Ecuador’s New Constitution
Why Israel Won’t Accept a Two-State Solution by Bernard Chazelle
ICH 25 June, 2008: Victor’s Justice Vs. Morality
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 25 June, 2008
GI Special 6F17 26 June, 2008: Soldiers Can Stop The Gears
GI Special 6F16 25 June, 2008: New Traveling Soldier Now!
COHA 25 June, 2008: A Hidden Agenda: John McCain and the IRI
COHA 25 June, 2008: Haiti’s Food Crisis: A Threat to Stability and Progress
Uruk Net Iraq News 24 June 2008
IPS 25 June, 2008: Misgivings About US-Sunni Ties in Iraq
MEDIA ALERT: SELLING THE FIREBALL – GEORGE BUSH AND IRAN June 25, 2008
ICH 24 June, 2008: The Coming Catastrophe?
New on Climate & Capitalism, June 24, 2008
Hansen accuses energy execs of crimes against humanity and nature
Top climate scientist to Congress: Act fast before time runs out
Uruk Net Iraq News 23 June 2008
The FISA Failure and the Sodomy of the Patriots
Denied the Right to go Home By “Ramzi & Zeina”
GI Special 6F15 June 24, 2008: "They Didn't Want Us There"
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 23 June, 2008
The Week with IPS 23 June, 2008: Water Flows Back Into Public Hands
ICH 23 June, 2008: Bush Says “I’m Addicted; Bigger Syringe, Please!”
GI Special 6F14 23 June, 2008: "Ovation And Cheers From Active Duty"
Uruk Net Iraq News 22 June 2008
New on Climate & Capitalism, 22 June 2008
Thirteen Science Academies Urge Fundamental Social Change
Joint Statement from 13 national science academies to the forthcoming G8 meeting in Japan, July 7-9
ICH 22 June 2008: A Totally Lawless Regime
Uruk Net Iraq News 21 June 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 22 June, 2008
GI Special 6F13 22 June, 2008: "Soldiers Are Fed Up"
A Secret Oil Gusher Inside Citigroup By Pam Martens
June 21st, 2008
Torture: Truth, But No Consequences, 21 Jun 2008 by Chris Floyd
Uruk Net Iraq News 20 June 2008
IPS 20 June 2008, People, Participation and Power
ICH 20 June, 2008: Bomb Iran? What’s to Stop Us?
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 20 June, 2008
Virtual Paper, #3 By S. Artesian, June 20th, 2008
The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
GI Special 6F12 20 June, 2008: THERE IT IS!
Uruk Net Iraq News 19 June 2008
Conflating Inflation — When is a crisis not a crisis? When the BBC says it’s a “slowdown” By William Bowles
ICH 19 June, 2008: At Least 25 Murdered in U.S. Custody: Ex-State Dept. official
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 19 June, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 18 June 2008
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL By Fidel Castro Ruz The Elephant and The Ant
Health Care and Ghosts of War By Norman Solomon
New on Climate & Capitalism June 18, 2008
Accelerated climate change’ destroying Australia’s food bowl
ICH 18 June, 2008 – Bush: ‘I Freed Millions From Barbarism’
IPS 18 June, 2008: Gaza – Desperate for Fuel, and a Bath
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 18 June, 2008
Afghanistan’s Killing fields By Eric Walberg June 18th, 2008
Media Savvy: ‘I Guess You Can Call It Torture’ June 17, 2008
“Palestine amidst a Region in Flux: Signs of Accommodation and Fears of War” By Ali Abunimah 17 June 2008
New on Climate & Capitalism 17 June 2008
Essential information on carbon trading
The very best source of analysis and comment on global carbon trading is The Corner House, based in Britain. These are just some of the documents, presentations and videos available on their website. Highly recommended.
Nationalize big oil, enemy of people and planet By Dick Nichols
Uruk Net Iraq News 17 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 16 June 2008
ICH: A Line Not To Be Crossed 17 June 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 17 June 2008
An Open Letter To Branford Marsalis
GI Special 6F11 17 June 2008: "In Defense Of The Warriors"
Should ecosocialists try to live green? June 16, 2008
A discussion at the climate conference in London
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 16 June 2008
Information Clearing House Newsletter Members of Iraqi Parliament Ask U.S. to Leave 16/06/08
The Week with IPS, 16 June 2008: Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases a Ruse
Statewatch News Online, 17 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 15 June 2008
New on Climate & Capitalism June 15, 2008
Comments on the Second Ecosocialist Manifesto by Ian Angus
… and on some key issues facing ecosocialists today
June 15: Wat Tyler Day
We´ll shoot the cutty wren…
New on Bolivia Rising 16 June, 2008
Update on campaign to bring "Goni" to justice
Bolivia: When minorities deny the rights of the majorities By Miguel Lora Fuentes, Bolpress
GI Special 6F10 16 June, 2008: Fathers' Day
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 15 June 2008
New on IWT – The Real News
Canadian autoworkers fight back
Workers from truck plant selected to be closed next year blockade General Motors HQ in Canada view video
Will Obama take on the oil companies?
Aijaz Ahmad: Will the real Obama please stand up? (3 of 4) view video
Obama and a united South America
Does Obama understand change in South America? view video
McCain, Obama and Guantanamo
Michael Ratner on the implications of the supreme court decision and the politics behind it (2 of 2) view video
The $300 Billion Betrayal
ANP: Pentagon spends hundreds of billions on weapons systems, but troops still don’t get what they need view video
Uruk Net Iraq News 14 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 13 June 2008
Information Clearing House Newsletter 14/06/08 George Galloway on the Government’s Dirty Little Secrets.
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 14 June 2008
GI Special 6F9 15 June, 2008: "Bring The Soldiers Home Now, Today"
Somalia, Ethiopia And Our Government’s Dirty Little Secrets By George Galloway
Why the Left doesn’t get it By William Bowles
Book Review: ‘Deer Hunting With Jesus - Dispatches from America’s Class War’ By Joe Bageant
New on Climate & Capitalism
The Ecological Crisis and its Consequences for Socialists By Phil Ward, December 1989
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 13 June 2008
National Security Archive Update, June 13, 2008
U.S. Military Hoped for Virtually Unlimited Freedom of Action in Iraq
Media Savvy – Media Tenor – It’s the Economy: Both Candidates Questioned June 13, 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 12 June 2008
Information Clearing House Newsletter 13/06/08 — John Pilger: The Rising of Latin America
GI Special 6F8 13 June 2008: No End To Stop-Loss
CounterCurrents Newsletter 12/06/08- On A Potential War With And Propaganda About Iran
Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 June 2008 — The Paradox Of Our Time
New on Climate & Capitalism June 12, 2008
Racism in the Tar Sands: exploiting foreign workers and poisoning indigenous people By Macdonald Stainsby
Uruk Net Iraq News 11 June 2008
PCHR Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 24/2008 04-11 June 2008
IPS 12 June, 2008, Impunity in Murder of Indigenous Reporters
Deadly “Diplomacy” By Norman Solomon
Media Savvy June 11, 2008: Media Image of Most Visible U.S. Presidential Candidates
Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 June 2008 — Why the Oil Price Is High
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 11 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 10 June 2008
GI Special 6F7 June 11, 2008: Soldiers' Rebellion Shakes Dictator
New on Climate & Capitalism, June 10, 2008
The three decisive social forces that can stop climate change
Tasks for ecosocialists in building a global movement against ecological destruction, an editorial to appear in Socialist Resistance
Venezuela: The capitalist system has brought humanity to the biggest food crisis known By Kiraz Janicke
Latin American countries condemn the World Food Summit for ignoring the real causes of rising food prices
‘Complicit Enablers’ – UK Media Ignore US Whistleblowers
The Iran Trap by Chris Hedges
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 10 June 2008
CounterCurrents Newsletter 10/06/08 – Potential Future Hyperinflation
Media Savvy: Who Is The Real Obama? (Video) June 10, 2008
Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 June 2008 — US Congressman Moves to Impeach Bush
Uruk Net Iraq News 9 June 2008
New On Bolivia Rising 10 June 2008
Evo to EU: Social cohesion problems are not the fault of migrants, rather the development model
6 June 2008
Morales creates Cabinet post to defend nationalizations of companies in Bolivia
2 June 2008 Dirty deeds in Bolivia
Agitation, violence and illegal ballots on autonomy. Hugh O’Shaughnessy on disgraceful tactics aimed at intimidating and undermining a democratically elected president
June 10, 2008 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Chávez’s Blockbuster Proposal: Finally, the Right Message for FARC and for Peace
President Hugo Chávez’s statement on Sunday regarding the increasingly unproductive and ill-focused guerrilla war being staged by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) could be a hugely positive step towards reframing the terms and goals of hemispheric relations in this era. But the full realization of this development’s potential benefits hinge upon the Bush administration’s willingness to engage in constructive diplomacy. It must not allow itself to be gripped by a radical ideology or drowned by repetitive propaganda that all along has characterized its foreign policy making style. For once, Secretary of State Rice should urge negotiations rather than enflame the two warring sides to seek far-fetched goals thus guaranteeing that the conflict will not be resolved.
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 9 June 2008
VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 5 June 2008
GI Special 6F6 10 June 2008: Looking Up And Down
Uruk Net Iraq News 8 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 7 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 6 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 5 June 2008
GI Special 6F5 8 June 2008: "Because..."
GI Special 6F4 7 June, 2008: Frothing Mouth Animals
GI Special 6F3 6 June, 2008: "Thanks For Nothing"
GI Special 6F2 5 June 2008: He Gets It
Uruk Net Iraq News 4 June 2008
Uruk Net Iraq News 3 June 2008
GI Special 6F1 1 June 2008: Memorial Days
Uruk Net Iraq News 1 June 2008
On being different and why it’s important By William Bowles
Accumulation through Crisis (high quality video files)
Jonathan Nitzan (2008). "Accumulation through Crisis: Global Stagflation and the New Wars", Presentation at Harvard Law School as part of a series of lectures on Confronting Empire: Five Years of War in Iraq, 18 March.
Climate & Capitalism June 4, 2008
Cuba: The Food Crisis is Systemic and Structural
Address by José Ramón Machado Ventura, vice president of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, to the high-level conference on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
Overwhelmed by the horror of it all By William Bowles
Heart of darkness By Eric Walberg, June 4th, 2008
Princess Patricia, a Taliban takeover. Oh the horror of it all, gasps Eric Walberg
The June ColdType is here
MAIN SECTION: 72 pages: Protecting The Candidate; Liberalism’s Last Fling; Abu Ghraib Film Obscures Truth; Would You Publish This Picture?; How To Build A Human Bomb; Betrayals, Boycotts And Backslidings; Food Fight, How To Survive A Gaza Refugee Camp; With Friends Like These; Fascism With A Smile; Mental Illness Or Social Sickness?; Pot Smoking: Truth & Lies; Disneyland By The Tigris; Flexible Friends; Notes From No Man’s Land; Pillaging At The Pump; The Voter Fraud That Doesn’t Exist.
READER EXTRA: 212-pages: I Am An African: Thabo Mbeki and South Africa’s nightmare descent into xenophobia.