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... Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence . New York : Seven Stories , 2005 . Mohanty Chandra Talpade . “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse.” Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity . Durham : Duke UP , 2004...

... a defensive or a retributive strike by Afghanistan. Chomsky and Ahmed, however, disagree on the complicity of U.S. intelligence agencies in allowing or fomenting 9-11. Chomsky counts 9-11 as one of many U.S. intelligence failures; Ahmed presents an array of evidence showing that U.S. intelligence...

... Gikomba. Your canisters of nuclear waste on the beaches of Somalia. Your oil spills and pipeline flares across Ogoni land. Your rag- ing psychopath man-children raping girls from Afghanistan to Oki - nawa. Your guns. Your bombs. Your tanks. Your drones slicing the skies over Africa. What I see when I look...

..., in the Kitchen with the candlestick, in the Study with the knife, in the Conservatory with the lead pipe, in the Sauna with the towel, in the Caribbean with the Uno deck, in Afghanistan with the Bible, in the sky with a dream, in the Lounge with Miss Scarlet —​ O Colonel...

... the University of Iowa (1979). She returned to Iran during the Revolution in 1979, but she and her son were forced to flee in 1983 after Moshiri refused to align herself with the new regime. Fearing for her life, she went first to India and then Afghanistan before settling in the US; she has lived...

... vets, you know. Shut up and drive faster. In Afghanistan, the brown mountains are gouged with palm-filled fertile valleys and there are villages formed from earth and shared by generations. Usually, the Afghani people are safe in those buildings homes made of mud, thickened over hundreds of years...

... , no. 1 : 128 – 39 . Gilmore Leigh . 2017 . Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives . New York : Columbia University Press . Gregory Derek . 2004 . The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq . Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing . Hartman...

... low­ lights as No Child Left Behind and the United States’ wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, and that nebulously defined enemy, “Terror.” When juxtaposed against neoconservatism, the NMS can be symptomatized as a new liberalism and as the program of “bad mod­ ernism,” both as past content...

... all fused into one to confront the inevitable event.” Such popular mobilization was contrasted with American behavior: “To flee from the abode of Katrina but to kill in the house of Iraq or Afghanistan —​to flee and to kill, the anti-values of a decadent society.” Granma asked, then: “Where...

..., Timor, Chechnya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ireland, Corsica; Nancy 103 intercommunitarian violence in India, Indonesia, Africa, etcetera— reveal that we have been incapable of dismantling or discouraging appeals to communitarian essences...

... democracy by force back to Strauss’s ideas, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq indicate a philosopher-king’s desire to create an ideal demos from above. Ironically, Strauss himself cautioned against applying political philosophy directly to public policy, not out of modesty, but because he...

... and Afghanistan. We need to launch a movement to stop that happening. We could have fallen flat on our face, definitely. But it turned out to be the biggest political rally in London for ten years. And so it started off. It just went and that was because —​we thought this, but we didn’t know it until...

... can see the contours of the event more clearly. I’m sure there are many films that could be made about Iraq or Afghanistan, for example. Maybe when you’re working on such a con- temporary subject, one way to tackle it is through documentary. The danger is, if you’re doing...

... the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the extra- ditions, the militarization of Colombia, the puppet state installed in Afghanistan, the invasion of Libya by the old European imperial pow- ers, and so on. How can one go on in one’s theory making as though nothing had happened? There are strong reasons...

.... That experience seared me. US imperial power never could be a progressive force. The crimes and atrocities in Vietnam have never been called to account and the perpe- trators punished. It was always thus and is: Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Central America, Chile, Brazil, Argentina —​it’s a long...

... on nervousness” or a “war on anxiety”? How can you make a war on an emotion? The effect of this metaphor has been to produce a phantom enemy that is everywhere and nowhere, an enemy that is defined not as a nation, not Iraq or Afghanistan, North Korea or any other coun- try, it’s a metamorphic phantom...

... in fifteen countries for their geographic knowledge in 2002. Of the fifteen countries, the US came in fourteenth. Mexico was fifteenth. 70% of those surveyed could find the Pacific Ocean on a map. 15% could find Iraq, Afghanistan, or Israel on a map. Williams Did they know those things forty years...

..., at least) insofar as they remain exploitable or otherwise usable. The secret world works by covertly yet systematically infiltrating the overt one, in which it is revealed first by macro-events that cannot be denied (but can be misnamed), such as the mass bombings from Afghanistan and Serbia to Syria...