Friday, May 10, 2002

The Need to Talk Sense Anthony McIntyre 29/03/2002 Tariq Ali in a recent discussion of the issues facing critical writers and dissident thinkers who wish to remain both critical and dissenting in the post-September 11 climate, has warned of the dangers of becoming reconciled to the ideological construct of American might as 'the only emancipatory project ...(which)... has to be supported against all those who challenge its power'. He fears that in a number of cases those who formerly made their reputation polemicising against repression and imperialism have since 'found themselves trapped by the debris of September 11' and now use their considerable discursive talents against their old friends, in the process becoming 'the useful idiots of the empire'. What, for Tariq Ali, was one of the most attractive elements of American political culture - 'the layers of dissent that have flourished beneath the surface' - is now in danger of being snuffed out. Comments: 6:44:51 AM

Man suicidal over informer recruitment attempts Sinn Féin Councillor Jarlath McNulty says that attempts to pressurise a middle aged Strabane man to go wear a "wire tap" and frequent certain selected bars in Strabane to listen to the conversations of local people have left the man, who suffers from a chronic drink problem, in a suicidal state. Comments: 6:42:32 AM

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