The Betrayal of Dissent
Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century

Scathing attack on Hitchens and others who have used Orwell to justify reactionary responses to the 'war on terror'.

All of them play influential roles in supporting the UK and US governments' charge that opponents of war -- and those who question the motives behind American foreign policy and its implementation -- should be condemned as 'appeasers of mass murder'. This controversial book shows how Orwell has been used since 9/11 to justify, in the guise of independent thought, the suppression of dissent. We must rescue ourselves from Orwell and from those who take on his guise so, as Lucas puts it, our 'silencing is! vital to a "manufacture of consent" for the wars which are supposedly being fought in our name and for our good'.