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The Language of Empire
 
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Code: PB1196
Price: $14.95
Author Name: Rajiva, Lila
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ISBN: 1-58367-119-6 (pbk)
176 pages
The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media by Lila Rajiva
The Language of Empire is a study of how and why the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was white-washed by the American media. Tracing the connections between such apparently unrelated incidents as the videotaped beheading of the American contractor Nicholas Berg and the massive siege and bombing of Fallujah — the Guernica of the 21st century — it builds a compelling case that the torture of Iraqi prisoners was not an aberration but systematic, rehearsed, and in line with the history and policies of the U.S. military.