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Monday, February 07, 2005, 09:33

Poor Iraq: Thomas Hylland Eriksen's new newsletter

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The only credible responses to the challenges facing humanity have to be ambivalent, doubtful, cautious, with instincts favouring pluralism and a multiplicity of voices rather than universal recipes for happiness.

According to writers like Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Edward Said, the most difficult form of decolonisation consists in decolonising the mind; in developing a self, and an identity, and a self-consciousness which is not based on the categories of the colonisers. In giving the people of the world the choice of being either with the US or with the terrorists, Bush II has refused to acknowledge any position which is developed out of other concerns than their own. Poor Iraq. >> continue

Comments:

Ray Arrowood, Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 16:11

I agree with this assessment completely, but unfortunately this isnt going to stop the US from bullying other countries. In my opinion the US isnt trying to push democracy as much as capitalism. Its more about resources like oil than freedom. They just use democracy as an excuse to force compliance in a world economy in danger of collapsing. The US government is pushing hard right now because they have a decisive military edge on everyone else and they know it. Its a fact that power corrupts and this is just another example of it.

 

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