What climate denial, oil addiction and xenophobia have in common: Neocons (Breitbart now in the UK)

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Leader of UKIP Nigel Farage takes the applause

In February, Roy Greenslade reported that US conservative media outfit Breitbart News Network was expanding into the British media scene with the establishment of a London office. Heading up Breitbart's new UK operations are executive editor James Delingpole and managing editor Raheem Kassem.

The expansion – which Delingpole himself effectively concedes is about "pandering to readers' prejudices" to maximise profits – reveals the worrying extent to which the forces behind climate denial and racism are one and the same: "American conservativism" of the "right-wing libertarianist" kind.

While attacking environmental science and activism, Breitbart UK simultaneously revels in being an unadulterated mouthpiece for right-wing ideology without even a semblance of editorial objectivity. Literally dozens of 'news' articles over the last month, many by editor Raheem Kassam, offer gushing praise for the anti-environmentalist UK Independence Party (Ukip) - which as far right expert Dr Matthew Goodwin of the University of Nottingham explains, has "considerable overlaps with the extreme right."

"Far from being 'xenophobic' or 'racist'," Kassam writes instead, "Ukip's objections to mass immigration into Britain" are merely a reaction to the Blair government's policy of "'open borders' immigration from Europe." He whines that Ukip is "often unfairly lumped" with the British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL).

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/apr/29/climate-denial-oil-addiction-xenophobia-neocons

You have to feel for the UK if Breitbart has now spread across the pond.