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[TPMMuckraker] I think you have to bear in mind that it is written for a specific purpose, and that purpose is to try give the audience, U.S. Servicemembers (not all of whom are inclined to take an academic or cosmopolitan view of things) some insights into a culture that they are going to have to encounter under the most stressful of circumstances, and for them to make the least number of mistakes possible.

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[fírgoa - universidade pública - espazo comunitario] Marnie Holborow: Ideology and Language: the Interconnections ...: The ”˜challenge’ in the title announces the style, as Graham points out: together with ”˜change’, it is one of the most used in neo-liberal speak and both are euphemisms for adopting market values (Graham 2004). Ironically, for an ideology that promotes so insistently the virtues of consumer choice, its documents and public statements have a drab uniformity that recalls Orwellian Newspeak in that the language becomes slavishly adopted and anything else considered a heresy.

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[THE PHILIPPINES MATRIX PROJECT] RE-VISITING SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO: In honor of Virgilio Enriquez ...: By 1946, when formal independence was granted in the wake of the war’s devastation of the infrastructure and economy of the islands, the Filipino elite and large parts of the pettybourgeois intelligentsia or middle stratum had become exemplary neocolonial subjects geared for waging the U.S. “Cold War” in Asia. Throughout the forties and fifties, anticommunist ideology and its repressive institutions reinforced the “deFilipinization” that historian Renato Constantino (1978) traced from the cooptation of the ilustrado at the beginning of the century to current President Arroyo’s sycophancy to the reactionary policies of the Bush administration.

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[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » I have received a death threat: The US government is actively drawing up detailed plans with the assistence of Isreal for attacking Iran and the American president regularly vilifies Iran and is trying to get the entire world to embargo Iran. It doesn’t surprise me if some Iranian might feel anger toward the US and people tend to lash out irrationally and make threats when they feel threatened.

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[Feral Scholar] Feral Scholar » Blog Archive » Doctrine: “It also seems to me that the revolutionary movements in Nepal and in China, at least — maybe even Spain as well — occurred in far less race-fragmented cultures than the US. Race/national unity was often a foundation and a glue for third/emerging world revolutionary struggles, and I tend to agree with Stan [if I am interpreting past posts of his correctly] that this race/national unity and opposition to (usually White/Western) colonial power was a stronger motivating and inspiriting force than abstract theories of capital and class.”

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Revolt on the Right: The titles, President of the U.S.A., Commander In Chief (which used to apply only to the president’s relationship to the armed forces, but now seems to be his relation to all of us), and the unofficial “Leader of the Free World,” for the head of the executive branch of the American federal government, are as useful, and no more meaningful, than the English formulations, of “His (Her) Majesty’s government, or the old (post-1689) “In the name of His Majesty, The King,” or “In the name of Her Majesty, The Queen.” From 1689, up through to the Edwardian era (circa 1901-36), “His (Her) Majesty’s government,” was de facto Parliament’s government (which became all too clear with the reforms of 1763-1839).

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