Peace, Justice and the Ultimate Crime

Hitler said what beleaguered Germans wanted to hear. Ever since World War II, people in the Western world have been asking rhetorically how a nation of the education and cultural excellence of Germany could have believed in and rallied around such a sinister, bigoted, megalomaniacal and xenophobic leader as Adolf Hitler. Perhaps there is no single, clear-cut response to that question. But part of the answer is that such an autocratic, über -nationalist leader,  whose stilted them-and-us world vision led to the most tragic global conflict in the history of the human race, was a product of his era, a supremely-driven opportunist who saw clearly how to take advantage of the widespread sense of discontent, disenfranchisement, humiliation and despair bred in his nation as of the end of World War I, in order to build a witheringly powerful and highly militarized movement “to make Germany great again.” Hitler’s so-called Nazi movement evolved by challenging the democratic system of

There can be little doubt that the result of last week’s referendum in Britain on whether or not to remain within the European Union (EU) was not about liberal economics or overlapping legal boundaries, but about immigration and radical nationalism. By extension, it was also about shirking accountability in the Middle East, and about trying to turn back the clock to a time when Europeans themselves were divided by borders, language and cultural jingoism. Ultimately, it was about racism and fundamentalism, about suspicion and fear, and about isolationism and the ill-feelings that it necessarily engenders. David Cameron - taken by surprise The so-called Brexit Referendum came as a staggering surprise to just about everyone who still believes that this is a world where, despite abundant controversies, everyone basically wants to work together. Not among the least surprised was Britain’s own Prime Minister David Cameron, who, almost immediately following the vote—in which Britons