![]() ![]() If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti- Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. ![]() What does the term 'anti-American' mean? Does it mean you're anti-jazz? Or that you're opposed to free speech? That you don't delight in Toni Morrison or John Updike? That you have a quarrel with giant sequoias? Does it mean you don't admire the hundreds of thousands of American citizens who marched against nuclear weapons, or the thousands of war resisters who forced their government to withdraw from Vietnam? Does it mean that you hate all Americans?. Six vituperative political essays against unbridled corporate globalization, the War Against Terrorism, and nuclear nationalism. Once someone is branded anti-American, the chances are that he or she will be judged before they're heard and the argument will be lost in the welter of bruised national pride. ![]() Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. The term 'anti-American' is usually used by the American establishment to discredit and, not falsely - but shall we say inaccurately - define its critics. War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. “Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. ![]()
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