Ordinary Americans have been manipulated into imagining they are a people under siege whose sole refuge and protector is their government. If it isn’t the Communists, it’s al-Qaeda. If it isn’t Cuba, it’s Nicaragua. As a result, this, the most powerful nation in the world – with its unmatchable arsenal of weapons, its history of having waged and sponsored endless wars, and the only nation in history to have actually used nuclear bombs – is peopled by a terrified citizenry, jumping at shadows. A people bonded to the state not by social services, or public health care, or employment guarantees, but by fear. This synthetically manufactured fear is used to gain public sanction for further acts of aggression. And so it goes, building into a spiral of self-fulfilling hysteria, now formally calibrated by the U.S government’s Amazing Technicolored Terror Alerts: fuchsia, turquoise, salmon pink.
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U-Arundhati Roy (owazalwa ngoNovemba 24, 1961) ungumbhali wezincwadi waseNdiya, isishoshovu kanye nesakhamuzi somhlaba. Uzuze uMklomelo kaBooker ngo-1997 ngenoveli yakhe yokuqala ethi UNkulunkulu Wezinto Ezincane. URoy wazalelwa eShillong, eMeghalaya kumama ongumKristu waseKeralite waseSyria kanye nobaba ongumHindu ongumBengali, owayengumlimi wetiye ngomsebenzi. Ubuntwana bakhe wabuchitha e-Aymanam, eKerala, efunda eCorpus Christi. Wasuka eKerala waya eDelhi eneminyaka engu-16 ubudala, waqala impilo yokungabi nakhaya, ehlala endlini encane enophahla lukathayela phakathi kwezindonga zeFeroz Shah Kotla yaseDelhi futhi eziphilisa ngokuthengisa amabhodlela angenalutho. Wabe eseqhubeka nokufundela ukwakha eDelhi School of Architecture, lapho ahlangana khona nomyeni wakhe wokuqala, umakhi uGerard Da Cunha.UNkulunkulu Wezinto Ezincane ukuphela kwenoveli eyabhalwa uRoy. Selokhu awina uMklomelo kaBooker, usegxile kakhulu ekubhaleni kwakhe ezindabeni zezepolitiki. Lokhu kuhlanganisa iphrojekthi yeDamu laseNarmada, Izikhali Zenuzi zaseNdiya, imisebenzi yenkampani esebenza ngogesi eyonakele i-Enron e-India. Uyinhloko yenhlangano emelene neglobalization/alter-globalization futhi ungumgxeki kakhulu we-neo-imperialism.Ephendula ukuhlolwa kwe-India kwezikhali zenuzi ePokhran, eRajasthan, uRoy wabhala i-End of Imagination, i-critique yamaNdiya. izinqubomgomo zenuzi zikahulumeni. Ishicilelwe eqoqweni lakhe elithi The Cost of Living, lapho aphinde aphikisana namaphrojekthi amakhulu aseNdiya aphehla ugesi ngamanzi ezifundazweni ezimaphakathi nentshonalanga yeMaharashtra, Madhya Pradesh naseGujarat. Kusukela ngaleso sikhathi uzinikele kuphela ekukhulumeni okungelona iqiniso nakwezombangazwe, eshicilela amaqoqo amabili engeziwe ezindatshana kanye nokusebenzela izizathu zezenhlalo. URoy waklonyeliswa ngendondo ye-Sydney Peace Prize ngoMeyi 2004 ngomsebenzi wakhe emikhankasweni yezenhlalo kanye nokumela ukungabi nodlame.NgoJuni. Ngo-2005 wabamba iqhaza kwi-World Tribunal yase-Iraq. NgoJanuwari 2006 waklonyeliswa ngendondo ye-Sahitya Akademi ngeqoqo lakhe lezindatshana, 'I-Algebra Yokulunga Okungapheli', kodwa wenqaba ukuyamukela.