American Apocalypse
by Robert Jay Lifton
The Nation
Posted December 4, 2003
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031222&s=lifton

The apocalyptic imagination has spawned a new kind of violence at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We can, in fact, speak of a worldwide epidemic of violence aimed at massive destruction in the service of various visions of purification and renewal. ...

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