Lee Drutman, Miller-McCune.com. December 19, 2008. Research shows that seeing the flag doesn't make Americans feel more patriotic, but instead, more nationalistic and more superior to non-Americans.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. October 22, 2007. Iraqi nationalism is the only political force capable of uniting Sunni and Shiite Arabs and ending the sectarian civil war, but for the past four years the United States has systematically worked to suppress it.
Nina Berman, AlterNet. October 11, 2007. White House photographer Christopher Morris' reveals how American pride has blinded us to the reason others hate us.
Howard Zinn, Progressive Media Project. July 4, 2007. Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time?
Raed Jarrar, Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 9, 2007. More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story.