LILA RAJIVA
Friday, December 16 at 6 p.m.

Festive time of year it may be in many ways, it is also a time when the real world continues. Lila Rajiva's academic background is in music. She has also become an astute writer on politics and the media (www.dissidentvoice.org). She is here with her timely new book, The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media (Monthly Review). "With a calmness and clarity of purpose worthy of Virgil, Lila Rajiva leads us step-by-step into a darkness none of us want to confront. But face it we must, if we have any hope of derailing the mad machinery of death and torture unleashed on the world by the Bush Imperium...Rajiva looks deeper, exposing how the perverse logic of torture has infected the language and psychology of the American imperial project...Her book is an unsettling expedition into the political consciousness of cruelty." - Jeffrey St. Clair. "This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to see America become what it has not yet been." - Vijay Prashad.

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