https://www.unz.com/jcook/how-the-left-became-cheerleaders-for-us-imperialism/One of the biggest problems for the left, as it confronts what seems like humanity’s ever-more precarious relationship with the planet – from the climate emergency to a potential nuclear exchange – is that siren voices keep luring it towards the rocks of political confusion and self-harm. And one of the loudest sirens on the British left is the environmental activist George Monbiot. Monbiot has carved out for himself a figurehead role on the mainstream British left because he is the only big-picture thinker allowed a regular platform in the establishment media: in his case, the liberal Guardian newspaper.