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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
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• 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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• The Iraqui 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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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...possible justification for the Colin Powell's "no-casualties-on-our-side" military [[doctrine]].<br><br> ...people? No wonder the two strongest industrial [[complexes]] are today the military and the medical, that of destroying and that of prolonging life.<br><br>
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...als or even humans so that God will repay them by sending enough rainfall, military victory, etc.) The next, already more intricate level is to conceive sacrif
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• You May!
  ...llicit temptation at bay becomes the source of libidinal satisfaction. The military life, for example, may be governed as much by an unwritten set of obscene r
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...plosion, the Germans quickly construct for him a replica of small American military hospital resort, trying to convince him that he now lives in 1950, that Ame
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• NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
  ...as "anti-war sentiment" or "anti-war movement." So a free translation of "military pacificism" would be roughly "war by people that have always said they were
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...he [[present]] bombing of Yugoslavia, is that they [[signal]] a new era in military [[history]] - battles in which the attacking force operates under the const ...cape his grasp (see [[James]] Baker's public [[endorsement]] of a "limited military intervention" against Slovene secession), supporting the last Yugoslav prim
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  SZ: Up to a point I agree with this, but I have always been in favor of military intervention from the West. Around 1992, with a little bit of pressure, the
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• Human Rights and its Discontents
  ..."anti-war sentiment" or "anti-war movement." So a free [[translation]] of "military pacificism" would be roughly "war by people that have always said they were
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  favour of military intervention from the West. Around 1992, with a little bit of
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