Posts Tagged ‘al-Qaeda’

Of Lies, Liberation and American Self-Delusion: Reflections on the Dangers of National Self-Love

Published on ZNet, www.zmag.org, 3/27/03 Iraqis must think the American definition of liberation a strange one. First, we destroy all of the key government buildings that we can find in a search for Saddam Hussein. Then we relentlessly attack the Iraqi military, which of course counts among its troops, members of tens of thousands of […]

Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush: Reflections on the Functions of Mass Panic

Published as a ZNet Commentary, March 7, 2003 Laura Bush wants everyone to just relax; and more to the point, she wants the media to aid in the process of nerve-calming by restraining themselves from what she sees as a growing tendency to scare the public with stories of impending cataclysm. From repetitive coverage of […]

Selective Indignation: Bin Laden’s Inhumanity, and Ours

Published on ZNet, www.zmag.org, 12/20/01 The reviews came in quickly, and to no one’s surprise, the verdict was two thumbs down. “Can you believe how ruthless this man is? How cold blooded?” “That monster has no regard for human life.” “What kind of person laughs about the deaths of thousands of innocent people?” These are […]