What these seven suggestions really amount to is rejecting a militarized mindset of aggression and a corporate mindset of exploitation for one that sees humanity and this planet more holistically.
There’s only one Spaceship Earth
W.J. Astore
In my latest article for TomDispatch.com, I argue that the coronavirus crisis provides an opportunity to reimagine America. Please read the entire article at TomDispatch; what follows is an extended excerpt. Thanks!
This should be a time for a genuinely new approach, one fit for a world of rising disruption and disaster, one that would define a new, more democratic, less bellicose America. To that end, here are seven suggestions, focusing — since I’m a retired military officer — mainly on the U.S. military, a subject that continues to preoccupy me, especially since, at present, that military and the rest of the national security state swallow up roughly 60% of federal discretionary spending:
1. If ever there was a time to reduce our massive and wasteful military spending, this is it. There was never, for example, any sense in investing up to…
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yes. and as ive said before, reducing the US military would be a great boon to the environment, since the US military is the number one air polluter on the planet.
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Good point, Nomad. I wonder what’s happening to the US military – whether they are practicing self isolation or if respiratory illness is running rampant through the barracks. That seems to be a big gap on the wall-to-wall COVID-19 coverage.
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