Sentences with phrase «rising isolationism»

Facebook (fb) chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision on Thursday of his company serving as a bulwark against rising isolationism, writing in a letter to users that the company's platform could be the «social infrastructure» for the globe.

His chances of victory in November are remote — but he's stirring a rising isolationism across the west, and politicians need to reckon with it

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«I got into this race to put forward a plan to win a war we can not afford to lose and to turn back the tide of isolationism that was rising in our party,» he said.

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

As readers will be aware, I support military action against Assad - indeed, I think our policy of isolationism is responsible for the rise of Al Qaeda in Syria - but I can not see why Parliament should be bypassed on this issue.

While some New Zealanders call for a new isolationism, the Auckland gallery Michael Lett reflects on the country's encounters with the effects of refugee crises, rising sea levels and other 21st - century phenomena.