[Peace-discuss] Stephen Lendman: A culture of violence

[Morton K. Brussel]

This guy should be better known. He's prolific, impassioned, radical,  
and informed. His long article

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=13882

starts out:

What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the  
name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history  
against one or more adversaries. It has the highest homicide rate of  
all western nations and a passion for owning guns, yet the two seem  
oddly unconnected. Violent films are some of its most popular, and  
similar video games crowd out the simpler, more innocent street play  
of generations earlier. Prescription and illicit drug use is out of  
control as well when tobacco, alcohol and other legal ones are  
included.…
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