Spring 2009 Defining Terrorism
Contents
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Dennis Chapman
Defining Terrorism: A Thought Experiment“Neither hegemonic conformity nor resistance movements should target civilians; however, each should expect the material consequences of using terrorist means, i.e. live by the sword, die by the sword.”
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Kenneth Couesbouc
A Pragmatic Tool“The soldiers are identifiable and can be targeted. The insurgents are indiscernible. Soldiers are ambushed and see their comrades fall. They then vent their anger on whoever they find, and a cycle sets in of terror and counterterror.”
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“Torture is about power. It is not about gathering intelligence. It is not about preventing terrorist attacks. Torture is terror itself.”
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“Dawdling, of course, just confirms the view of the rest of the world, especially among Muslims, that Obama is not the principled liberal they were led to expect, that he is afraid to make a clean breast of the past atrocities, that he is merely a politically correct Bush lite.”
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“By claiming that his primary responsibility is to keep us safe, he takes us outside the legal arena and enters the same arbitrary arena in which Bush and Cheney performed with such aplomb.”
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Robert Fantina
Israel, Palestine and Terror“It is astounding that one can look at the savage victimization of the Palestinians and not recognize terrorism.”
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Frank Barat
The Death of Bassem Abu Rahme“The media hardly reported this. The Palestinians do not count. Even more shocking when a video of the event is available to all.”
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Carl Finamore
Kill and Be Killed: Police Murders in Oakland“It’s time to recognize the harsh reality. Police are virtually an occupying military force in Black urban centers. Their presence will neither eliminate the plague of rampant crime nor address the underlying disease of extreme impoverishment.”
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Mats Svensson
Who Is a Terrorist?“She said that she had once asked her dad who Mandela was. ‘He is just a terrorist!’ answered her dad, ‘We don’t mention his name in this house.’”
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Little Big Pine
Poem That Cannot Be Named (Poetry) -
Jon Bailes
On Cultural Revolution: An Interview with John Hutnyk“When we talk of a hybrid society, I do not think we are talking of an ‘inclusive’ society in any way except insofar as all cultures have become hollowed-out items for a ‘cultural’ exchange in the market.”
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Rod Allison
On the Economic Aspects of War“Big profits are either already being made by several sectors or are promised for the future (including armaments, oil and construction) out of America’s occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan”
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Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Obama’s Doublespeak on Iran“Obama serves as the smiley-face mask for the same militaristic policies left behind by George W. Bush and his Neoconservative handlers.”
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Farzana Versey
Tracking Naheeda, the Pathan Village Woman“Inside the houses, women only cover their heads with a dupatta (scarf). An elderly relative brought it out for me and demonstrated how it was worn, laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.”
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Jon Bailes
Fatal Reaction: Fallujah the Videogame“If game producers really want to give their audience insight into social and political issues, they must take a more mature approach, not only to the issues themselves, but to the unique forms of expression available to videogames.”
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J A Miller
The Protestant Boycott of the UN Conference on Racism, 2009 (Poetry)
