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"Vraiment, it may be justly said that science has banished the deities and demons, the ghosties and ghoulies, of our primeval superstitious past into the realm of metaphor where all such mythical creatures belong, but hola, in our Second Starfaring Age, only to create new and even more arcane ghosts in the civilized machineries, whereby doppelgangers of the spirit arise out of matter and energy themselves!" -- "Child of Fortune," by Norman Spinrad But who is Osama bin
Laden really? Let me rephrase that. What is Osama bin Laden? He’s
America’s family secret. He is the American President’s dark
doppelganger. The savage twin of all that purports to be beautiful and
civilised. He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to
waste by America’s foreign policy; its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear
arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of "full spectrum dominance," its
chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military
interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its
merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor
countries like a cloud of locusts. Its marauding multinationals who are
taking over the air we breathe, the ground we stand on, the water we
drink, the thoughts we think. Table of Contents
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