Category Archives: MULTIMEDIAPax Americana After the inauguration of George Bush in January, 2001, the calls for war against Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, started to take force. His robust rhetoric about the infamous Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the supposed connection between Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, kept escalating. From the beginning, Bush and his cronies were bent of going […] Are We Safe Yet? After the end of the cold war, we blatantly assumed we would be enjoying prosperity, peace and freedom. But we have been brutally introduced to new realities: fear and uncertainty. Terror, terrorists and terrorism. Terrorism in our home ground. And despite a daily barrage of sordid headlines and images, our cultural beliefs and attitudes remain […] United States of Fear A few box knives and 19 people have done the unthinkable –until a week ago. They wounded the heart of the Western world, by destroying one of the most recognized landmarks, killing, we are told, 3000 people, and damaging the first world economy to such an extent that in less than 7 days more than […] |
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