VALERIE MORSE

fMorse of course scorns Bush’s motives. Who doesn’t? He exemplifies all the obvious sins so blatantly that these days it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t despise him. He’s become too easy a target.

Western fundamentalism: By this term I mean the elevation of Western modernity above all other ways of knowing and being and it includes adherence to capitalism, individualism, patriarchy, scientific rationalism, ‘Christian’ morality, commodification of the environment, private property and a belief in progress.

The big wars of the 20th Century, like the two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam, were all wars about elite control.

… you can have peace at the barrel of a gun, but unless you have peace with justice and self-determination, and allow people to exist in a way where they feel they have had justice done, they can determine their own future, you will never have a just situation, you will never have peace.

The big wars of the 20th Century, like the two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam, were all wars about elite control.

Western fundamentalism: By this term I mean the elevation of Western modernity above all other ways of knowing and being and it includes adherence to capitalism, individualism, patriarchy, scientific rationalism, ‘Christian’ morality, commodification of the environment, private property and a belief in progress.

… you can have peace at the barrel of a gun, but unless you have peace with justice and self-determination, and allow people to exist in a way where they feel they have had justice done, they can determine their own future, you will never have a just situation, you will never have peace.