Rough Music

Blair Bombs Baghdad London Terror

By Ali, Tariq

Publishers Summary:
A seething report on the explosive state of affairs in Britain, highlighting Blair's alliance with Washington and Bush's losing war on terror.On July 7, 2005, the murderous mayhem that Blair's war has sown in Iraq came home to London in a devastating series of suicide bombings. Two weeks later, with apparent impunity, security forces shot dead a young Brazilian electrician on his way to work. Rough Music is Tariq Ali's riveting response to these events. He lays bare the vengeful platitudes of Blair's war on civil liberties, mounts a scorching attack on the cozy falsehoods of the government's "consensus" on what the threat amounts to and how to respond, and denounces the corruption of the political-media bubble which allows it to go unchallenged. Finally, invoking the perseverance and integrity of the great dissenters of the past, he calls for political resistance, within parliament and without.

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978-1-84467-545-6
Publisher
Verso


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Reviewed on March 20, 2006

Leftists who think Bush is bad should get a load of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as pilloried in this lively polemic. British writer, filmmaker and activist Ali (The Clash of Fundamentalisms) calls Blair a liar, an authoritarian and a "hypermilitarist" who "likes the smell of blood." He shudders at "the burning eyes and fake humility" of Blair's "facile simulacrum of sincerity" and speculates that, like Posh Spice, Blair has "never read a whole book." And while Blair has happily prostrated himself to Washington's demands, the au...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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