Terrorism is a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.
Terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorist try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
Terrorism is a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine.
Terrorism is a strategy that kills politics, the one process we have devised that masters violence in the name of justice.
Terrorism is a word with little content it is a label for brutalities committed by 'the enemy', and from which one's own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.