...Ivan Greenberg The Bush administration's so-called war on terror needs to be situated within the context of earlier efforts to demonize dissent. Since the early 1970s the FBI has increasingly linked the threat of terrorism to lawful domestic social movements to undermine their legitimacy and blur...

...Mimi Thi Nguyen “Minor Threats” considers the entry of minor objects—including the author's own zines—into increasingly institutionalized punk archives. What happens to the brats, new bloods, poison girls, androids of Mu, persons unknown, or younger lovers when we are called on to fill a void...

... of Bavaria. Boyette stood accused of having knowingly exposed three white male sexual partners to HIV and bringing them into “danger of death.” Boyette’s racial and national “otherness” underscored the widespread West German perception of AIDS as a racialized threat linked to the United States. With his...

... academic, Louis-Juste had recently received multiple death threats for his role in organizing a series of university student demonstrations that sparked wildcat strikes at one of Port-au-Prince's largest textile assembly plants. By reflecting on Louis-Juste's political and intellectual development...

... by more violent expressions of opposition to colonial rule. It is argued that the 1931 and 1936 boycotts were novel for the threat of regional conflagration that they posed, as well as the increased “internationalization” in the framing of their meanings. Gandhism, Communism, and later, Fascism, provided...

... that the costs and risks of attacking will exceed the bene- fits, usually by invoking military threats. Presumably the adversary will be deterred if the threat is sufficiently potent and credible, that is, the defender has demonstrated both the will and the capability to carry out threatened sanctions...

... of 9/11 succeeded in large part not because the attackers were so smart, but because we were so stupid. The agencies of government responsible for avia- tion security had simply failed to meet any kind of minimal standards. I’ve come to believe that the jihadist threat, if we can call...

... research, and even for its tersely elegant literary style. The 9/11 Commission sought to explain why an outside group attacked the United States and to suggest future policies for dealing with such threats — threats defined at the outset as originating well outside of American borders. Nothing...

...@terikehaapoja.net Copyright © 2023 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2023 art politics museum Anthropocene nonhumanity During the Finnish civil war in 1918 the renowned author Ilmari Kianto called for the extermination of the “wolf bitches” that he saw as a threat...

... Truman referred to the United States as a homeland, but only used the term to refer to other countries under the threat of invasion (Holland, Russia, and Japan). Perhaps homeland was evocative of the German fatherland and the sin- ister identification of Heimat...

.... To win support for education programs from both recalcitrant employers and reluctant workers, union officials elevated, perhaps even exaggerated, the threat posed by workplace transmission. Though AFSCME at times stressed the dangers of demonizing people with AIDS, its expansive sense of workplace risk...

... converts BH from general threats into historical persecutory patterns. And finally, presentism reifies BH by collapsing historical persecution with current anxieties; the danger is thus clear, present, and ongoing. Representation constitutes a documentary stage whereby a link between...

... of an extensive "Islamic threat" to Western security and civilization, while reminding the students that there is a corresponding myth in some "Islamist" circles of a widespread Western conspiracy to undermine and obliterate Islam. This task consisted of, but was not limited to, the following...

... emerges. The conservative strategy of this rhetoric is to contain the threat of immigrant takeover through the reassertion of whiteness as synony- mous with citizenship. Former California governor Pete Wilson’s now famous speech, “Securing Our Nation’s...

... and dangerous. In the graffiti “Islam = AIDS,” both groups connote threat, crimi- nality, and pollution and are discursively located outside the boundaries of the French republic. In the second part of the analysis, I turn to the parliamentary debates...

... have diverged widely in their in- terpretations. However, they have exhibited a common tendency to minimize the "Soviet threat" as a factor in American decision- making. This similarity does not derive from the properties of im- perialist theory but from the circumstances of its adoption...

...’ Organization, Inc. 50   51 logics of heteronormativity and settler nationalism, manufacturing perceptions of sexualized threats and helpless victims while preventing the articulation of connec- tions between violence abroad and violence...

... in Puerto Rico were rather different, but a comparable analysis identified the threat of fascism in power during the same era. Puerto Rico’s nominal status as “self-governing” was (and remains) largely based on its free and open elections structured around a political party system that partially resembled...

... any effective mechanisms to prevent its antiterrorist innovations from producing massive threats to civil liberties. Instead, the measures underway appear to be creating three important pat- terns that combine to generate an even more...

... Network annual conference, youth from California’s San Joaquin Valley met apart from the adult activists to identify the three most pressing environmental threats to their communities. The young Latinos had a lot of threats to choose from: air quality, one of the worst rated in the country...