America’s Addiction to Terrorism
288 pp, $20 pbk 9781583675700
By Henry Giroux
Reviewed by Seth Sandronsky
“Islamic State bombings in Brussels and Paris are headline news. Henry A. Giroux goes beyond that violence and the fear it generates for the back story of lawless wars, cold, hot and obscured in America’s Addiction to Terrorism.
Giroux urges readers to fundamentally rethink the idea that terror is foreign to the American experience, steeped in a history of genocide and slavery. Thus contrary to the mainstream narrative, terror and the motivating force of fear elites use to try and control the populace did not begin with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Giroux sets the record straight, in part, taking aim at the cultural effects of the growing national security state that smashes civil liberties. Further, he links this authoritarian trend to the growing class gap of income and wealth, and overall mayhem and murder that characterizes US society in 2016….”
Read the entire review in The Progressive Populist
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