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Public Power in the Age of Empire

(Open Media Series)

In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy bril

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“Terrorism is vicious, ugly, and dehumanizing for its perpetrators as well as its victims. But so is war. You could say that terrorism is the privatization of war. They are people who don't believe that the stat has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.”

— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com

Tagged: Terrorists, War On Terror

“As resistance movements have begun to reach out across national borders and pose a real threat, governments have developed their own strategies of how to deal with them. They range from cooptation to repression.”

— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com

“The rift between rich and poor is being driven deeper and the battle to control the world's resources intensifies. Economic colonialism through formal military aggression is staging a comeback.”

— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com

Tagged: Wealth Gap, wealth disparity

“Anti-Americanism is then seized upon and amplified by the U.S. government and its faithful media outlets. You know the routine: 'Why do they hate is? They hate our freedoms,' et cetera.”

— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com

Tagged: manipulation