Her targets are wide-ranging. One minute she's extolling the values of non-violent resistance, the next railing against American international policy.
"Pre-emptive strike?" she says. "What are they talking about pre-emptive strike? President Bush, what is that supposed to mean? If pre-emptive strike is a justified doctrine then Iraq is as justified in attacking America as America is in attacking Iraq. I mean these are the words now: Pre-emptive strike, counter-terrorism. They don't mean anything."
She has a keen ear for the misuse of words. "When people talk," she says,
"about the globalisation of culture, it never means that India and Thailand, or India and Japan, or Japan and South Africa have any more to do with each other. It's like a huge cultural airline company where the hub is America and everything is directed through that. This is not globalisation, it's colonisation."
"The End Of The Imagination", the essay which opens her current book, is a typically angry, eloquent and brazenly emotive polemic, dealing with the subject of nuclear proliferation and the ridiculousness of any theory of deterrence. "There is this idea," she explains, "that just because you don't use a nuclear bomb it doesn't mean everything is all right. It's like saying, now I'm not going to pull this trigger, but let me just sit around with a gun to your head and let's pretend everything's normal.
"Pre-emptive strike?" she says. "What are they talking about pre-emptive strike? President Bush, what is that supposed to mean? If pre-emptive strike is a justified doctrine then Iraq is as justified in attacking America as America is in attacking Iraq. I mean these are the words now: Pre-emptive strike, counter-terrorism. They don't mean anything."
She has a keen ear for the misuse of words. "When people talk," she says,
"about the globalisation of culture, it never means that India and Thailand, or India and Japan, or Japan and South Africa have any more to do with each other. It's like a huge cultural airline company where the hub is America and everything is directed through that. This is not globalisation, it's colonisation."
"The End Of The Imagination", the essay which opens her current book, is a typically angry, eloquent and brazenly emotive polemic, dealing with the subject of nuclear proliferation and the ridiculousness of any theory of deterrence. "There is this idea," she explains, "that just because you don't use a nuclear bomb it doesn't mean everything is all right. It's like saying, now I'm not going to pull this trigger, but let me just sit around with a gun to your head and let's pretend everything's normal.