TIDE? OR IVORY SNOW?

Public Power in the Age of Empire

by Arundhati Roy

"...synthetically manufactured fear is used
to gain public sanction for further acts of aggression.
And so it goes,
building into a spiral of self-fulfilling hysteria,
now formally calibrated by the U.S government's
Amazing Technicolored Terror Alerts:
fuchsia, turquoise, salmon pink."