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Article: The new imperialism, and not being a turkey.(Centrespread)
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- February 29, 2004
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Editor's Note: This article was adapted from Arundahti Roy's January 16 speech to the opening plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India.
In January 2003, thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil and declared--indeed reiterated--that "Another World Is Possible." A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George W. Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing.
Our project was the World Social Forum; theirs, to further what many call the Project for the New American Century. The new "missionaries" want order at the cost of justice, discipline at the cost of dignity, and ascendancy at any price.
In any ...