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The Other View Is Of The Official United States, The United States Of Armies And Interventions. The United States That In 1953 Overthrew The Nationalist Government Of Mossadegh In Iran And Brought Back The Shah.

We Are At A Point In Our Work When We Can No Longer Ignore Empires And The Imperial Context In Our Studies. (p. 5)

Since The Time Of Homer Every European, In What He Could Say About The Orient, Was A Racist, An Imperialist, And Almost Totally Ethnocentric.

In The Islamic World, The U.s. Is Seen In Two Quite Different Ways. One View Recognizes What An Extraordinary Country The U.s. Is.the Other View Is Of The Official United States, The United States Of Armies And Interventions. The United States That In 1953 Overthrew The Nationalist Government Of Mossadegh In Iran And Brought Back The Shah. The United States That Has Been Involved First In The Gulf War And Then In The Tremendously Damaging Sanctions Against Iraqi Civilians. The United States That Is The Supporter Of Israel Against The Palestinians.

Refuse To Allow Yourself To Become A Vegetable That Simply Absorbs Information, Pre-packaged, Pre-ideologized , Because No Message.. Is Anything But An Ideological Package That Has Gone Through A Kind Of Processing.