Word: fascism
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...Similar observations pile up - about the links between shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where...
President Bush has been so busy lately giving speeches and taking questions about terrorism and Iraq and the ideological battle against Islamo-fascism that he's practically owned the airwaves. Which is just what Karl Rove wanted. Bush's address at the United Nations General Assembly today may have been a long-scheduled, annual diplomatic event. But it was also a key piece in an elaborate Labor Day political strategy devised by the man whose job it is to keep Republicans in control of Congress in November and thereby salvage the President's legacy. In the past two and half...
...theories of mass media and communication. For the Nazis, image was king–and their use of the movies to further political ends provides a piercing insight into the sinister possibilities of our own media-soaked age. What is the relationship between art and politics? Film and fascism? Goebbels and today’s political operatives? Taking this course provides the skills–and defenses–to recognize the power of propaganda in today’s ostensibly innocent popular culture.Whoops! Looks like we’re out of space. To sum up, consider Foreign Cultures...
...Salt Lake City, President Bush faces an audience of military veterans, standing before a backdrop depicting iconic scenes from wars past: "Spreading freedom is the work of generations, and no one knows it better than you," he tells them. "Freedom has contended with hateful ideologies before. We defeated fascism; we defeated communism; and we will defeat the hateful ideology of the terrorists who attacked America...
...speak out against these kinds of myths and distortions that are being told about our troops and about our country. America is not what's wrong with the world." DONALD RUMSFELD, Defense Secretary, blaming the media for "dividing our country" and hindering the fight against "a new type of fascism...