I've got a piece up at Counterpunch, arguing that the blo...

I've got a piece up at Counterpunch, arguing that the blogosphere is peculiarly well-suited to fostering racial populism and that, indeed, it helps overcome some of the organisational problems that the far right has traditionally faced.

Since I wrote, it's become clear that Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs, the Islamophobic blog cited by Breivik, is going back through her archives, deleting incriminating correspondence with Norwegian right-wingers.

For instance, it seems she once published someone who talked openly about stockpiling weapons to defend himself against Muslims. Elsewhere, she ran a letter from someone in Norway who wanted 'politicians and elites' to be hanged as traitors.

Until the Oslo massacre, Geller saw nothing problematic about either of these posts. And why would she?  If you really expect looming war against Muslims, an intercontinental struggle in which the very survival of civilisation is at stake (and Geller say she does), well, violence is part of war. Breivik just drew the logical conclusion.