^#smrgDERGİ Index On Censorship / Manufacturing Monsters - Volume 29 / 2000 - 5 - Volume: 29 / 2000 - 5

When the USA invented the concept of 'rogue state', it gave itself a licence to kill. But first it had to manufacture the monsters — and justify its actions to a gullible public. In this the media proved themselves more than willing. Index looks at the creation and punishment of monsters at home and abroad With NOAM CHOMSKY, STAN COHEN, ROY GREENSLADE, JEREMY HARDING, EDWARD SAID Caught between the ambitions of Israel and Syria, Lebanon has been the proxy battleground of the Middle East, as well as home to the most bitter of all conflicts, civil war. Now, with Israel defeated in the south and Assad out of the picture, can it adapt to the perils of peace? With CAROL HAKIM, ALAIN GRESH, A NAZIR HAMZEH, SAMIR KASSIR, CHIBLI MALLAT, EMILY NASRALLAH, AVI SCHLAIM. Plus Mary Kenny replies to 'Women who censor', Huw Christie sends a letter from the South African AIDS conference and Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek explains why she doesn't want her work performed in Vienna.