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By Vicki Gray
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Wednesday 30 August 2006
Once was a time when we used to joke that military justice is to justice as military music is to music. You musicians get the point. Trouble is, military justice is no longer a joking [...]
The Reactionary Utopian
August 10, 2006
LANGUAGE IN RUBBLE
by Joe Sobran
I miss Hemingway. This may seem an odd time for literary lamentations, but it’s not just my nostalgia speaking. The fog of war is aggravated by the fog of official language, and our rulers seem unable to open their mouths without emitting cant, [...]
By Katha Pollitt, The Nation
Posted on August 26, 2006, Printed on August 26, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/40850/
If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush Administration’s Middle Eastern policy sinks ever deeper into bloody incoherence, the “war on terror” has been getting a quiet linguistic makeover. It’s becoming the “war on Islamic fascism.” The term [...]
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare…James Madison
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