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For easy access, here are all the links for this series.
Part I: Only Americans Matter
Part II: We Draw Our Circle Too Small
Part III: Patriotic Fixations
Part IV: Media Violence and the Ease of Abstraction
Part V: Final Thoughts
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Part I: Only Americans Matter
Part II: We Draw Our Circle too Small
Part III: Patriotic Fixations
Part IV: Media Violence and the Ease of Abstraction

I suppose it’s time to wrap this series up.  It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted on this topic, so let’s revisit a few things.
In Part one, I introduced the overall [...] Read more »

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Part I: Only Americans Matter
Part II: We Draw Our Circle too Small
Part III: Patriotic Fixations
Last time, I mentioned the problem of patriotism and its synonymic relationship to nationalism and ethnocentrism the by-product of which is the arrogance of American exceptionalism not to mention the sorrows of empire itself.
The final reason for this cult of indifference [...] Read more »

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Part I: Only Americans Matter
Part II: We Draw Our Circle too Small
Last time, I mentioned the first reason we as Americans tend to both individually and collectively — individually as preoccupied public population and collectively via the manufacturing of consent through the politically driven corporate media machine — suppress and ignore non-domestic acts of violence: [...] Read more »

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Part I: Only Americans Matter

Last time, I mentioned the blatant biases, omissions, and failings of the corporate media in the United States in regard to non-domestic acts of violence, and as of late, the war and occupation of Iraq.  I touched on the fact the in our minds, only Americans matter when it comes to [...] Read more »

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