The real state terrorism

Politicians and journalists have described terrorism—acts of terror by those opposed to governments—as the cancer of the modern world. In the 1970s the term international terrorism was devised to describe acts of violence committed by political groups outside the nation in which they primarily operated. At the same time, state terrorism referred to a state that made its resources—financial, political, training, and intelligence—available for terrorists to create political and economic instability in another country. We seem to be living in the age of terrorism. But it's an age filled far less with the terrorism described above, and far more with the terror of war, famine, overpopulation, deadly diseases, and related violence. We should be more concerned with a very different kind of violence: government or state‐organized terrorism

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