17 Apr, 2013
Bill Blum: Mass Violence, Gun Control and the American Culture of Death – Truthdig
Although the term “culture of death” largely has been used by the right wing to promote its anti-abortion agenda, it more aptly applies to what Rich Broderick, an unheralded journalist who writes for the online Twin Cities Daily Planet, describes as a “culture that embraces a soulless free-market idolatry in which the value of everything, including human beings, is determined by the bottom line. … It is a culture of death that prevails on Wall Street, K-Street, Hollywood, and our ever expanding Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex.”
Just how deep-seated that culture has become was confirmed beyond conjecture in a comprehensive report released in January by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.
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