Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Weapons of choice for controlling the public

A clutch of citations for the language of terror: William Safire of The New York Times looks at the ironies of historical slang and the problems of new descriptions in 'Language: Clean your clock, and the long war'.

At Counterpunch Mike Whitney writes on the language of terrorism:

'The War on Terror is the truest expression of the calculated dishonesty of the Bush White House. It is grounded on "unproved assumptions" and, then, disseminated by an aggressive campaign of fear mongering. These are the weapons of choice for controlling a timorous public...'

Counterpunch also has semantically-driven items on the politics of language and war's 'body counts', including a credible calculation of half a million dead in Iraq.

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