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  • SFBay Guardian Resource List

  • Is Islam to Blame , by Laura Rush, East Bay Express

  • Michael Moore.com , and his tribute to Barbara Lee.

  • Why U.S. Intelligence Failed , By Jack A. Blum (9/16/01) , SactoBee Editorials.

  • Immigrant Shot in AZ , SF Chronicle.

  • Arab-Americans Fear Hate Crimes , SF Chronicle.


  • A Great Wound , The Nation editors.

  • Terror in America , The Nation by Robert Fiske.
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  • Essays on Orientalism and Cultural Differences


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    Welcome to the Desert of the Real
    by Slavoj Zizek - 09/24/2001 © THE THING 2000








    from "A Great Wound," The Nation

    "This is a pivotal moment when we should reconsider our posture toward the world and examine the true burdens and obligations of acting like an empire awesomely more powerful than any others and answerable to no one. To maintain international order, our military occasionally intervenes in what, for us, are meant to be casualty-free wars. Our economic order claims to spread democracy by imposing its own self-interested rules on poorer nations. Yet, as we learned and should have already understood, this great country is vulnerable too, beyond imagination. Whoever planned this vicious attack must have calculated that the United States is at a fragile juncture, its great prosperity sinking and uncertain leaders in power. They probably intended an unraveling, both of financial markets and the national confidence."

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