A timely and principled intervention, this collection of critical reflections in the best tradition of George Orwell helps us think again about the destructive power of 'doublespeak.' Through their diverse analyses of the ways language can cloak the machinations of the powerful, the authors gathered here encourage us to reject endless war.""- Lori Allen, author of A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine ; "" Globalizing Collateral Language is an indispensable primer for making sense of how the linguistic defines the limits of our imaginations and animates the world around us. Expanding the sphere of the original volume, Collins and Sen curate terms that illuminate the evolving lexicon of the globalized war on terror as it collaborates and collides with localized forms of authoritarianism and struggles for freedom.""- Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines ; ""The central claim of Globalizing Collateral Language , that 'language is never just a means of communication,' burns with relevance ever more so today.""- Waleed Hazbun, coeditor of New Conflict Dynamics: Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa .