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Rebranding the War on Terror for the age of Obama: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and the promotion of extra judicial killing

The Oscar-nominated film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ has sparked debate on its justification of torture, its misuse of facts, and its pro-CIA agenda. While the focus of the debate has been on whether torture was necessary to track Osama bin Laden, scant attention has been paid to the larger, more significant message of this film: that extra judicial killing is good.
Posted in Media, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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Media coverage of anti-American protests turns a political clash into a cultural conflict
Eleven years after 9/11, the media are still asking the same question: Why do they hate us? And the same tired answer is being provided, but this time by the liberal imperialists wielding the “clash of civilizations” rhetoric with perhaps greater skill than their neocon predecessors.
Posted in Media, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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The GOP’s Muslim ‘southern strategy’
When Mitt Romney stated that it was Israel’s “culture” that was responsible for the country’s superior economic development he was simply recycling an argument long used to explain black poverty in the US.
Terrorizing Muslims: A bipartisan project
The clash of civilizations is also a liberal project. Liberal Democrats know how to sort out ‘good Muslims’

