Archive for September, 2004

worlds of freedom

Sunday, September 19th, 2004

19th September 2004:
Sometimes it appears that the Raison d’tre of the George W. Bush presidency is simply to whet the appetite of the otherwise silent majority of commentators typing away on their personal websites. This is part of his speech at last month’s Republican GOP:
I am running for president with a clear and positive [...]

narratives

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

9th September 2004:
The problem is that there is no such thing as global terrorism. Terrorism occurs on a global scale - that much is evident, and has been the case since at least the turn of the last century - but the misnomer “Global Terrorism”, a rent-a-concept to subsume all aspects of supranational violence, hinders [...]

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