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War Mongering at the New York Times: There's always a "Why"

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But of course, there's always a "why."

The difference is that the "why" in the U.S. heart of darkness is greed for oil and the protection of an oil economy that will predictably destroy our planet.

Meanwhile the unexamined "why" of ISIS and the thousands attracted to its cause is intimately connected with response in kind to the Original Aggression of colonialism's systematic rape of the Middle East. ISIS is responding in kind to U.S. crimes. It's all blowback.

And the gentle editors of the New York Times (speaking for their employers in the military-industrial complex) can't stand what they see when they look into the mirror. So they project.

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Mike Rivage-Seul is a liberation theologian and former Roman Catholic priest. Retired in 2014, he taught at Berea College in Kentucky for 40 years where he directed Berea's Peace and Social Justice Studies Program. His latest book is (more...)
 

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