Under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the prison of Abu Ghraib (the
Father of the Raven) was a place of ill omen, notorious for
horrific suffering and torture and mass executions. After the
invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military made Abu Ghraib one of the
major detention centers for Iraqis suspected of sympathizing with
the resistance. The revelations since April 2004 of systematic
torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib
have not easily been assimilated into the mythology of the U.S.
"war on terror."
The Language of Empire focuses on the response to these
revelations in the U.S. media, in congress, and in the larger
context of U.S. global politics and ideology. Its focus on the
media is a prelude to showing how the language of multiculturalism,
humanitarianism, and even feminism have been hijacked in the cause
of an illegal and brutal imperialist war.
The media have colluded with the Bush administration in
manipulating images of the U.S. occupation of Iraq in such a way as
to present it as a clash between civilization and barbarism, and in
selectively using legal and procedural issues to distract from the
basic criminality of the invasion itself. The circuitous logic
through which U.S. imperialism presents itself as a defender of
legality and democracy is exposed for all to see in this important
and timely work.
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