The Many American Wars No One Notices

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Current American cultural detatchment from wars in other parts of the world.  Politics is now theater. War on terror has cost 5.6 trillion. Evironmental degradation. Civilian deaths.

 BURT COHEN ·Keeping Democracy Alive  

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We don’t even know we’re being kept in the dark. America’s wars are everywhere. With the mainstream news focus on all Trump all the time, major stories affecting us all get virtually no attention. Did you know, for example, that America is waging wars in 76 countries? No one is paying attention to our numerous wars. Part of the reason, according to Stephanie Savell, co-director of Costsofwar.org at Brown University’s Watson Institute, is that there is a war being waged on information. The rest of the world is all too aware, but here in America they are wars no one notices. More of our tax dollars than…

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