Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity

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This book probes deeply into the sense of disempowerment that has resulted from the inability of Americas Left wing to halt the violent and repressive course of post-9/11 U.S. policy. In this passionate exploration of what it means to be a citizen of the world's most powerful, affluent and militarised nation in an era of imperial expansion, Jensen offers a potent antidote to leftists' despair over the future of democracy.

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"Robert Jensen does more than challenge us to think and feelhe also encourages us to transform our lives. While Citizens of the Empire provides cogent information and analysis, the book also offers real clarity about the emotional imperatives of coming to terms with grim aspects of the status quo. At the same time that he demolishes media myths about the "war on terrorism," Jensen takes apart key mechanisms of propaganda, militarism and convenient illusions. Midway through the first decade of the 21st century, this book will jolt readers into a truer reckoning with their own beliefs and capabilities. Jensen makes a powerful case that we can stop being passive spectators and start being active co-creators of history. Citizens of the Empire is a book of realism and hopea strong antidote to the poisons of conformity and despair."Norman Solomon, Co-author, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy

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Robert Jensen is a professor of media law, ethics and politics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream, among other books. He also writes for popular media, and his opinion and analytical pieces on foreign policy, politics and race have appeared in papers and magazines throughout the United States.