Arundhati Roy Fights America Again in New Book

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0613-07.htm

Arundhati Roy has such an acerbic clarity, you can't help but admire her. Please take note of her last quote in the article.


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NEW DELHI -- On the cover of Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy's new book, a woman clad in a black cloak scampers across a hostile looking dreary brown landscape clasping the hand of a tiny child.

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"Unfortunately, if peaceful change is not given a chance, then violent change becomes inevitable. That violence will be (and already is) random, ugly, and unpredictable. "

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"President George W. Bush, commander-in-chief of the US army, navy and marines, has issued clear instructions 'Iraq. Will. Be. Liberated. ' (Perhaps he means that even if Iraqi people 's bodies are killed, their souls will be liberated.), " questions Roy. "Operation Iraqi Freedom? I don 't think so. It's more like Operation Let 's Run a Race, but First Let Me Break Your Knees. "

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As she sees propaganda being passed as the truth and press handouts passed for stories, Roy determinedly continues her three cheers for celebrated critics of the US government like Noam Chomsky and writes: "...if the Bush regime falls, there would be dancing on the streets the world over."


I think she speaks for the world! I will be dancing in the street when * and co. are standing in cuffs and shackles!! :toast: :applause:

Shall we make a date for this event?!:bounce: :woohoo:

3 days to the Conyer's hearings! :bounce: :nuke: :applause:

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:party: :party: :party: :party: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

even if she is an Indian. :)

people on the planet. Unapologetic and forthright - she speaks for me.

,...along with everyone else around the world!!!

Arundhati Roy is such a lovely human being. I admire her greatly!

It thrills me to just imagine it. There would be an earthquake!

:toast: :party:

by someone who knows no fear. What an writer/speaker/patriot. I have read her book Power Politics... not exactly what you get on the evening news.



http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/roy_zin_nyc.html

In these times, when we have to race to keep abreast of the speed at which our freedoms are being snatched from us, and when few can afford the luxury of retreating from the streets for a while in order to return with an exquisite, fully formed political thesis replete with footnotes and references, what profound gift can I offer you tonight?

As we lurch from crisis to crisis, beamed directly into our brains by satellite TV, we have to think on our feet. On the move. We enter histories through the rubble of war. Ruined cities, parched fields, shrinking forests, and dying rivers are our archives. Craters left by daisy cutters, our libraries.

So what can I offer you tonight? Some uncomfortable thoughts about money, war, empire, racism, and democracy. Some worries that flit around my brain like a family of persistent moths that keep me awake at night.

Oh that the leaders of the "free" world were more like her!

:grouphug: :applause:

goodness of the earth. Any spiritually awakened person would love to call her friend wouldn't they!:hi:

:)

She is beautiful!:hi: Mention away!