Articles by Robert Jensen
Bush’s Contempt For Democracy
Outlook India ·
George Bush says he wants to use war to help create democracy in Iraq? As a step toward bolstering his credibility, Bush might start taking democracy seriously in the rest of the world, and at home.
Bush Plans Unprecedented Shift of Almost Half of Government Jobs to Outside Contractors
Dissident Voice; Philadelphia Inquirer ·
September 11 and the failures of American intellectuals
Canadian Association of University Teachers ·
Bush’s lies and simple truths
Outlook India ·
George Bush HAS misled the American public. He IS misleading the American public, and we can assume he WILL continue to mislead the public.
Bush’s leaps of illogic don’t answer people’s questions about war,
Dissident Voice; Fort Worth Star-Telegram ·
Just a war or a “just war”
The Hindu ·
The `war on terrorism’ is only marginally about fighting terrorism. Instead, it is mostly a cover for a largely pre-existing agenda of extending the American empire into central Asia, with its implications felt globally and domestically, say RAHUL MAHAJAN and ROBERT JENSEN.
Iraq Debate in Mainstream is Ultra-Hawks v. Moderate-Hawks
Dissident Voice; Dallas Morning News ·
Talk Of “Transfer” Of Palestinians Is Not Only Illegal But Racist
Dissident Voice; Atlanta Journal-Constitution ·
Blow bangs and cluster bombs: The cruelty of men and Americans
feminista ·
My political life for the past dozen years has been anchored in resistance to the pornography of men and the wars of the United States, the struggle against patriarchy and empire. That means my life has been saturated with images of cruelty, from the intimate to the global. To be effective, contemporary mass-marketed pornography and modern war both require cruelty and contempt. Pornography and the wars of the U.S. empire both depend for their success on the process of rendering human beings less-than-fully-human so they can be hurt. This paper examines the connections between pornography and war, and between feminism and a movement to resist U.S. militarism and imperialism.