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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 6225 Editor's Choice: 5
And (especially for libertarians) if Blackwater kills is it neither war nor democide -- just business as usual? Does corporaticide mean it's okay as long as Wall Street approves? What if a war is started for business interests, does that fall in the corporaticide column or the war column? Does a government-corporate partnership which runs a concentration camp for manufacturing which eventually kills people count as what, e.g. the Silesian-American Corp. at Auschwitz? Is that a form of employicide? When they kill villagers in Nigeria to keep the oil running is that securicide?
Jennifer Government has been optioned and may be coming to a corporately owned theatre near us...
Jennifer Government is a novel written by Max Barry. Published in 2003, it is Barry's second novel, following 1999's Syrup. The novel is set in a dystopian alternate reality in which most nations (now controlled by the United States) are dominated by for-profit corporate entities while the Government's power is extremely limited. It is similar in satiric intent to George Orwell's 1984, but criticizes the concept of a government with too little power, rather than one with too much. Because of this, some readers see the novel as a criticism of libertarianism. Many readers also see it as a criticism of globalization, although Barry claims he is not an anti-globalizationist....
To help promote the novel, Barry created a spin-off browser-based game entitled Jennifer Government: NationStates, in which players run their own countries. The game is very loosely based on the novel, containing none of its storyline.
In 2001, the film rights were optioned to Section 8, a production company owned by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney. In 2005, Louis Mellis and Dave Scinto, writers of Sexy Beast, were chosen by Clooney and Soderbergh to write the screenplay. Alias TV star Jennifer Garner expressed interest in playing the titular character in the movie or even television adaptation, although Barry himself has said his primary choice for the role would be Nicole Kidman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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