Lying to Ourselves on the BBC

Socio-Political Rants

This morning on the BBC World Service.

The United States: “Calling the US an Empire is grotesque or laughable depending in the mood I am in.” in reply to this statement: “The United States is an empire in every way except one: They are in denial.”

SARS: “China has implemented a new alert system for new cases of SARS, the suspected-suspected cases has risen to four.”

Bird Flu: “Some experts are worried that the Bird Flu virus might be able to spread to humans. Three cases has already been found in Vietnam.”

World Court: Bosnia, some argue that “ethnic cleansing” cannot be categorized as “genocide.”

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3 thoughts on “Lying to Ourselves on the BBC”

Americans dislike the moniker “empire” b/c it implies some sort of conspiratorial mal-intent. I don’t think the issue is denial as much as a perceptual difference of the term.

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