Download or read book Violence Today written by Leo Panitch and published by Merlin; Monthly Review Press; Fernwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is this a new age of barbarism? The scale and pervasiveness of violence today calls urgently for serious analysis of: the 'war on terror' and counter-insurgencies; terror and counter-terror; suicide bombings and torture; civil wars and anarchy; urban gang warfare; and the persistence of chronic violence against women.