[news] Triumph of Lunacy: The Military-Industrial Complex, the Christian Right, and the “LiberalMedia”

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Edward S. Herman - June 2, 2008

[N]uclear warfare has...become more likely because of U.S. militarization, projection of power, actual warfare spread across the globe—under the cover of an alleged "war on terror"—and deliberate fear-mongering. The "clash of civilizations" is essentially a war of the United States and its allies against the Third World...This has helped reduce moral barriers to barbarism: to mass killing, pain infliction, and devastation on the growing ranks of "enemies." Continuous warfare, daily reports of killings and torture, and fear- mongering, have hardened as well as frightened people, making them more easily adjusted to formerly beyond-the-pale modes of killing.  


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