Whether they’re shooting passenger jets out of the sky along the frayed, grassy fringes of Ukraine, brandishing swords and swastikas in the cluttered immigrant neighbourhoods of Greece, stalking the streets in a mad midnight hunt for Syrian refugees in Bulgaria, railing against the International Criminal Court in Kenya, attacking the Rohingya and the aid workers who support them in Burma, or glorifying wartime atrocities in Japan, volcanoes of exclusionary nationalist-type movements are springing up across the earth, spewing dark clouds of political distrust and scorching resentment.
Predictably, vulnerable people are getting burned. But while exclusionary strands of nationalism have infected myriad …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
