El acto terrorista perpetrado en Noruega de forma calculada por un extremista noruego de 32 años ha puesto de nuevo sobre el tapete la cuestión del fundamentalismo. Los gobiernos occidentales y los medios de comunicación han inducido a la opinión pública mundial a asociar el fundamentalismo y el terrorismo casi exclusivamente con sectores radicales del [...]

The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and those defined as our internal enemies. The caricature and fear are spread as [...]

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.” (La violencia extrema se las arregla para que no veamos los intereses a los que sirve) Naomi Klein 1. Noruega es uno de los últimos países europeos de modelo socialdemócrata que han sobrevivido a la ofensiva neoliberal. El secreto de esta supervivencia [...]

Before the deadly attack in Norway that killed 76 people, suspect Anders Behring Breivik left a long trail of material meticulously outlining his political beliefs. His 1,500-page political manifesto titled, “A European Declaration of Independence,” seeks common cause with xenophobic right-wing groups around the world, particularly in the United States. It draws heavily on the [...]

The revelation by CNN that Norwegian right wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik kept a diary in which he obsessed about the dangers of cultural Marxism, multiculturalism, and the “Islamification” of Europe will remind many Americans of the tactics of our own right wing (only these themes have been taken up by people much more mainstream [...]

Imaginad si Anders Behring Breivik, el pálido, rubio, 100% noruego de ojos azules, ultra derechista loco por las armas, fundamentalista cristiano, responsable por el atentado con el coche bomba en Oslo y los meticulosos asesinatos selectivos en la isla de Utoya que mataron a 93 personas, hubiera sido un inmigrante musulmán. Ni siquiera hay que imaginarlo [...]

The uprising in Egypt, although united around the nearly universal desire to rid the country of the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, also presages the inevitable shift within the Arab world away from secular regimes toward an embrace of Islamic rule. Don’t be fooled by the glib sloganeering about democracy or [...]

Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy such a serious weapon? The weapon reportedly used in the mass murders in Tucson was a serious weapon – a Glock 19, semi-automatic pistol, with an extended magazine. Some weapons like that were illegal [...]

Those who embrace violence, whether in the form of acts of terrorism or acts of war, are necrophiliacs. They worship death. They sacrifice life, including at times their own, for the heady intoxication that comes with becoming an angel of destruction. And in the wake of their fury and violence they not only leave grief, pain and suffering, but they perpetuate new cycles of revenge and murder like bad karma. These killers are presented to us in many forms. They come packaged as patriots and heroes, wearing rows of medals like David Petraeus or Stanley McChrystal, or they stumble onto the stage as bearded villains wearing suicide belts. But they are all killers. They all drink the same, dark elixir of death. They all partake of the same drug. They all take life in the name of high national or religious ideals. And they are all the scourge of the human race.

Chomsky: "For the radical imagination to be rekindled and to lead the way out of this desert what is needed is people who will work to sweep away the mists of carefully contrived illusion and reveal the stark reality, and to be directly engaged in popular struggles that they sometimes help galvanize."