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Larry Everest
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Shattered Illusions:
Analyzing the War on Terrorism

Aftab A. Malik, editor
Larry Everest, contributing author
Amal Press, London (August 2002)

Contents

"The new millennium quickly produced two terrible new crimes, added to the gloomy record of persisting ones. The first was the terrorist attacks of September 11; the second, the response to them."
- Noam Chomsky

Shattered Illusions is unashamedly a voice of dissent which brings together in one comprehensive volume, essays from intellectuals, human right activists, lawyers, journalists, and academics whose insights and perspectives provide both an intellectual and humane criticism of the Bush administration's current war policy. It not only challenges the framing of the war as a struggle between good and evil, but also critically assesses President George W. Bush's explanation for anti-U.S. sentiments.

Shattered Illusions examines U.S. policies and actions in the Middle East, a focus of its 'war on terror'. But is 'terrorism' what really lies at the heart of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, as the Sharon government contends? And what is driving the U.S. toward war with Iraq? Shattered Illusions explores the histories and implications of these conflicts for the United States and the peoples of the region.

Contributors include: Larry Everest, Noam Chomsky, Norman Solomon, Shepherd Bliss, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Rahul Mahajan, As`ad AbuKhalil, Marc W. Herold, Soumayya Ghanoushi, Francis A. Boyle, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Stephen R. Shalom, William Blum, Robert Jensen, Susan Abulhawa, John Chuckman, Aftab Ahmad Malik, Gabriel Ash, Beau Grosscup, Firas al-Atraqchi, Frida Berrigan, Geov Parrish, Jeff Sommers, Moonis Ahmar, M. Shahid Alam, Neil Lowrie, Phillip Cryan and Stephen Zunes.

Contents

INTRODUCTION
Khaled Abou El Fadl and John L. Esposito

AMERICA'S WAR ON TERRORISM
SAYING GOODBYE TO PATRIOTISM
Robert Jensen
AMERICA ON THE WARPATH: A Nation’s Soul at Risk
Shepherd Bliss
9/11: Some Reflections
William Blum
THE U.S. WAR ON TERRORISM: Exploding the Myths
Rahul Mahajan
DEFINING TERRORISM
Phillip Cryan
The BUSH WAR ON TERRORISM: Beyond the rhetoric
Beau Grosscup
NEW PARADIGMS OF GLOBAL ORDER
Moonis Ahmar
BILLIONS FOR ILLUSIONS: The Bush Military Budget
Frida Berrigan
THE COMING CRISIS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Gabriel Ash
PREPARING FOR WAR: THE POST 9/11 CAMPAIGN AGAINST IRAQ
Larry Everest
10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Stephen Zunes
THE UNITED STATES AND THE MIDDLE EAST: Why Do 'They' Hate US?
Stephen R. Shalom
THE MIDDLE EAST AND BLOWBACK AGAINST THE U.S
Jeff Sommers

INFINITE JUSTICE?
THE SILENT GENOCIDE
Noam Chomsky
'COLLATERAL DAMAGE?: Civilians and the US Air War in Afghanistan
Marc W. Herold
Israel's War on Terrorism Termininology in the Middle East Conflict
Neil Lowrie
OF ANTI-SEMITES AND ANTI-TERMITES
Firas Al-Atraqchi
OF WAR, ISLAM AND ISRAEL
John Chuckman
WOUNDING THE WOUNDED
Aftab Ahmad Malik
EYEWITNESS DISPATCHES: A Sickening, Bloodcurdling Horror
Geov Parrish
U.S. AID TO ISRAEL: Tax Dollars Soaked In Blood
Susan Abulhawa
PALESTINIANS ARE BLURRY IN THE EDITORIAL FRAME
Norman Solomon
BARAK APPOINTS WAR CRIMMINAL YARON
Francis A. Boyle

9/11: A 'CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?'
ISLAM AND THE WEST
SHATTERING ILLUSIONS: Orientalism, Alive and Well
As'ad AbuKhalil
THE ORIGINS OF EXTREMISM: Theology or Reality?
Soumaya Ghanoushi
ISLAM AND THE QUESTION OF VIOLENCE
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
ISLAM AND THE THEOLOGY OF POWER
Khaled Abou El Fadl
ARE CIVILIZATIONS AT WAR?
M. Shahid Alam

"There really is a feeling being manufactured by the media and the government that a collective 'we' exists and that 'we' all act and feel together [...] and the use of the collective 'we' by journalists [...] 'we' bombed, 'we' said, 'we' decided, 'we' acted [...] So American unity is being projected with such force so to allow very little questioning of U.S. policy"
- Edward Sai