Turns Out When Random House Said Libraries 'Own' Their Ebooks, It Meant, 'No, They Don't Own Them' Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (9781578512614): Larry Downes, Chunka Mui. End of the pro-democracy pretense. Media coverage of the Arab Spring somehow depicted the U.S. as sympathetic to and supportive of the democratic protesters notwithstanding the nation’s decades-long financial and military support for most of the targeted despots.
That’s because a central staple of American domestic propaganda about its foreign policy is that the nation is “pro-democracy” — that’s the banner under which Americans wars are typically prettified — even though “democracy” in this regard really means “a government which serves American interests regardless of how their power is acquired,” while “despot” means “a government which defies American orders even if they’re democratically elected.”
It’s always preferable when pretenses of this sort are dropped — the ugly truth is better than pretty lies — and the events in the Arab world have forced the explicit relinquishment of this pro-democracy conceit. I love this passage both for its candor and for what it lamely attempts to obfuscate. Of course not. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (9780684844411): Samuel P. Huntington. Globalisms: The Great Ideological Struggle of the Twenty-first Century (Globalization) (9780742555877): Manfred B. Steger. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New Edition) (9781844670864): Benedict Anderson. The Brothertown Nation of Indians: Land Ownership and Nationalism in Early America, 1740-1840 (9780803226333): Brad D. E. Jarvis.
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