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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...nner truth of the [[Nazis]], how they are guided in what may appear brutal military interventions by an inner [[vision]] of breath-taking goodness - we never l
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...accidentally survived it, and since this bombing was part of a legitimate military operation, one cannot condemn their fate when they were taken prisoners aft ...we recall how the CIA taught the Latino American and Third World American military allies the practice of torture for decades. And, insofar as the predominant
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...d by the White House on September 20, 2002)? Its main points are: American military might should remain "beyond challenge" in the foreseeable [[future]]; since ...say, one should gather the courage to proclaim the opposite: perhaps a bad military turn for the U.S. would have been the best [[thing]] that could happen, a s
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...ity Strategy calls for translating America's "[[position]] of unparalleled military strength and great [[economic]] and [[political]] influence" into "decades ...Successful societies [[limit]] the power of the state and the power of the military-so that governments respond to the will of the people, and not the will of
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...d by the White House on September 20, 2002)? Its main points are: American military might should remain "beyond challenge" in the foreseeable [[future]]; since
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  ...Once, however, he did strike a strange [[truth]]. When told that the U.S. military already controlled parts of Baghdad, he snapped back: “They are not in [[ ...with their disclosure in the [[media]]. The immediate reaction of the U.S. military officials was surprising, to say the least. They explained that the soldier
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ney]], property, taxes, and [[marriage]]. In 1987, it was destroyed by the military forces of the Brazilian [[government]].<br><br> ...will can also occur in the form of a violent revolution, of a progressive military dictatorship, etc.<br><br>
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...ce animals or even humans so that Gods will repay them by enough rainfall, military victory, etc.) The next, already more intricate level is to conceive sacrif
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...th its counter-violence: the counter-pole to "terrorist" attacks is the US military neo-colonial [[world]]-policing; the counter-pole to Rightist Populist viol
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• Knee-Deep
  ...of the crisis of Sarajevo as 'humanitarian', the recasting of the politico-military conflict in humanitarian terms, was in Brauman's view sustained by an emine
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...</p><p>Havel praised the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia as the first case of a military intervention in a country with full sovereign power, undertaken not out of
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• Are We in a War
  .... Thus the Orwellian motto 'War is Peace' finally becomes [[reality]], and military [[action]] against the Taliban can be presented as a way to [[guarantee]] t ...a? The CIA has been instructing its [[Latin]] American and [[Third]] World military allies in the [[practice]] of torture for decades. Even the '[[liberal]]' a
  25 KB (3,969 words) - 18:46, 27 May 2019
• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...erfect soldier — as such, through his [[over-identification]] with the [[military]] [[power]] [[system]], he turned into the [[excess]] that the system had t
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...” This tendency is perceived as unbalanced, “unfair” toward the big military powers who intervene in other countries, and [[partial]] toward the attacke
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...crisis of Sarajevo as “[[humanitarian]],” the recasting of a political-military conflict into humanitarian terms, was sustained by a political choice, that ...ticizing of “[[Human Rights]]” too often serves as the [[ideology]] of military interventionism in support of specific economic-political purposes. For ex
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...s who react [[rationality|rationally]] and predictably to [[material]] and military [[threat]]s, [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]] [[leader]]s are much more dan ...pull on us: They forget to include in their calculation the effects of the military intervention against Saddam. Yes, the world is better without Saddam — b
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• Catastrophes Real and Imagined
  ...White House on September 20, the doctrine’s main points are: 1) American military [[power]] should remain “beyond challenge” in the foreseeable future; 2 ...he won re-election largely thanks to his firm stance against the American military [[intervention]] in [[Iraq]], because he did what a normal politician in a
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...: Only after Waterloo did it become clear to him that his defeat was not a military accident but the expression of a deeper historical shift. The same goes fo ...nterests and securing its safety through its new military power. This new military not only includes forces for rapid deployment anywhere on the globe, but al
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  .... The prospect of a new global crisis is looming: [[economic]] breakdowns, military and [[other]] catastrophes, states of emergency. ...m. Yes, the world is better without Saddam - but it is not better with the military occupation of Iraq, with the rise of Islamist fundamentalism provoked by th
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• Hooray for Bush!
  ...Authoritarian rulers react rationally and predictably to [[material]] and military [[threats]] - they can be dealt with. Totalitarian leaders are much more da
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