Howard Zinn Quotes
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
Topics
Counterinsurgency
Extremes, Extremists, Extremism
Insurgency
Violence
War
Armed Conflict
Asymmetric Warfare
Contradiction
Counterterrorism
Guerrilla Warfare
Military Force, Military Intervention
Paradox, Paradoxes
Self
State-Sponsored Terrorism
War On Terror
Conflict
Terror
Terrorism
Non-State Actor
Self-Contradiction
Violent Extremism
War and Peace
Citations
Zinn, Howard. A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. City Lights Books, 2006.
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Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.