Welcome to Orwell's World 2010

http://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/4093
Date Written:  2009-12-31
Publisher:  ZSpace
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11674

Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.

Subject Headings

• Imperialism
• U.S. Imperialism
• War