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	What Torture??

apgalea

7-2-2009 6:16 AM

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torture, empire, democracy, liberty, nation-building

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LANGUAGE OF EMPIRE</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/languageofempire.php"><FONT size="+1" color="#000000">Abu Ghraib and the American Media</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/languageofempire.php"><FONT face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="-1" color="#bb0000">by Lila
Rajiva</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/languageofempire.php"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica" size="-1" color="#bb0000">“With a calmness and clarity of purpose worthy of Virgil,
Lila Rajiva leads us step-by-step into a darkness none of us want to confront.
But face it we must, if we have any hope of derailing the mad machinery of
death and torture unleashed on the world by the Bush Imperium. The horror
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has infected the language and psychology of the American imperial project, from
its sycophants in the press and its evangelists in the pulpit. Her book is an
unsettling expedition into the political consciousness of cruelty.”
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