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Hmm - so you're saying that for Politburo watchers, 'terrorism' should be read as 'anything and anyone that tries to subvert globalisation'?

There may be some truth to that. But it would be hard to make it stick without some event or act linking scary brown mad beumbers to scary white anti-globalisation protestors with... something worse than breaking windows and practicing street theatre without a license.

So currently a bit of a stretch perhaps. But there are certainly dark things waiting in the shadows of government, especially in the UK. Unfortunately there's not enough information available yet to see what form they're likely to take.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Aug 27th, 2006 at 08:29:35 AM EST
What I'm saying is more like the whole notion of terrorism is getting out of control. I don't think that the neo-liberal crowd is in control of globalization to begin with. They are simply trying to exploit it in their interests. They are also attempting to exploit the cult of terrorism to serve their interests. I'm saying that the two efforts may turn out to be going in opposite directions. I'm reflection back to the ways in which the international financial system went into a state of collapse in 1929-30.
by Richard Lyon (rllyon@gmail.com) on Sun Aug 27th, 2006 at 09:43:58 AM EST
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Didn't Rumsfeld once talk about a "global insurgency"?

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Sep 2nd, 2006 at 05:43:22 PM EST
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