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eckbook Cruise Missile -t» Arundhati Roy INTERVIEWS BY DAVID BARSAMIAN ^ 3- Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://www.archive.org/details/isbn_9780896087118 Praise for David Barsamian's interviews David Barsamian is the Studs Terkel ofourgeneration. — Howard Zinn DavidBarsamianisoneofthegreatjournalistsofourera, and agiant ofcommunity and public radio. — RobertMcChesney Praise forArundhati Roy's essays The scale ofwhatRoy surveys is staggering. Herpointed — indictment ofIndia's hydroelectric industry which has — verylittle to show for the destructionithas wrought is devastating. — New York TimesBook Review Arundhati Roy combines brilliant reportage with a pas- sionate, no-holds-barred commentary. I salute both her courage and her skill. — Salman Rushdie W.B. Yeatswrote that"the bestlackall conviction,while the worst are full ofpassionate intensity," but Roy is an exception. She overflows with Passionate Conviction. — SanFrancisco Chronicle ArundhatiRoy's essays evoke astarkimageoftwoIndias being driven "resolutely in opposite directions," a small Indiaonitswayto a"glitteringdestination"whiletherest — "melts into the darkness and disappears" a microcosm of much of the world, she observes, though "in India yourfaceis slammedrightupagainstit."Tracedwithsen- sitivity and skill, the unfolding picture is interlaced with provocative reflections on the writer's mission and bur- den,andinspiringaccounts ofthe"spectacularstruggles" ofpopularmovements that "refuse to lie down and die." Anotherimpressive work bya finewriter. — Noam Chomsky Writers have provedwhen theyturn theirbackto power and start to feel the pulse and pain of society, they be- come powerful. This is the power beyond power that Arundhati Roy brings forth in PowerPolitics. — Vandana Shiva THE CHECKBOOK AND THE CRUISE MISSILE CONVERSATIONS WITH ARUNDHATI ROY Interviews by David Barsamian South End Press Cambridge, Massachusetts ©2004byDavidBarsamianandArundhatiRoy Preface©2004byNaomi Klein CoverdesignbyEllenP.Shapiro Coverphoto©byJasonFlorio,"Afghanistan,2000," [email protected] MapcourtesyofZoltanGrossman,[email protected] Anyproperlyfootnotedquotationofupto500sequentialwordsmaybeused withoutpermission, as longas the total numberofwords quoted does not exceed2,000. Forlongerquotationsorforagreaternumberoftotalwords, pleasewritetoSouthEndPressforpermission. Firstedition. Printedbyunionworkersonacid-free,20%post-consumerrecycledpaper. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Barsamian,David. Thecheckbookandthecruisemissile:c—onversationswithArundhatiRoy/ byDavidBarsamianandArundhatiRoy. 1sted. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandi—ndex. ISBN0-89608-710-7 (pbk. : alk.paper) ISBN0-89608-711-5 (lib.bdg. : alk.Paper) — 1. —Globalization. 2. World poli—tics 1989- 3. Internation—al relations. 4. India Polit—ics and government 1977- 5. —United States Politics and governm—ent 2001- 6. Roy, Arundhati Interviews. 7. Indian authors Interviews. I.Roy,Arundhati.II.Title. JZ1318.B3662004 327^c22 2003025639 SouthEndPress,7BrooklineStreet,#1 Cambridge,MA02139-4146 www.southendpress.org 09 08 07 06 05 04 12 3 4 5 6 7 CONTENTS Foreword byNaomi Klein VI Knowledge andPower Terror and the MaddenedKing 41 Privatisation andPolarisation 59 Globalisation ofDissent 129 Glossary 159 Map ofIndia 162 Notes 163 Index 175 Foreword ARUNDHATI ROY: WORD WARRIOR BY NAOMI KLEIN OnMarch7,2003,twoweeksbeforetheUnitedStatesin- vaded Iraq, Arundhati Roy sent me an essay she had just written. The subjectlinewas "MyLastWords: A Submission inAnger." It arrived at the perfect time: despite the unprece- dented outpouring of opposition to the attack, the cable stations were giddilycountingdown towaras ifitwere New Year's Eve. If there was ever a moment when the world needed a dose ofArundhati Roy's rage and wisdom, it was now. IttookonesentencebeforeIrealizedthatthearticlewasa fake, notwrittenbyRoybutbysomeoneoutto discredither. ThegiveawayswerephrasesHkethis: "zombie fascists" to de- VI
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