SHOOTING THE QUR’AN May 19, 2008
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I have to say I was puzzled by the fact that a copy of the Qur’an was used for target practice by American Occupation soldiers in Iraq. Surely, I thought, they should be using Bibles. If not, why not? As The New York Times noted in its editorial entry standards have fallen for the “world’s best military”. Furthermore, following a honourable tradition of glossing the text, with its medieval legal and religious precedents, these members of the elite had taken to writing commentary on the various passages. Cultural awareness was not part of the Time’s appraisal either of the problems with and the mighty, all conquering, all consuming, military and the mighty eternal Empire.
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INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM May 19, 2008
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Chalmers Johnson reviews Sheldon Woilin, “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism,”.
Critique the following. Is it true to events and the underlying processes, or are there better explanations?
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