ADDICTED TO WAR -- WHY THE U.S. CAN'T KICK MILITARISM

... or give 500,000 malnourished children in this country three meals a day for a year. [108]

... or you could put a down payment on a brand new aircraft carrier!

U.S.S. Ronald Reagan

Which is exactly what they are doing -- building a new aircraft carrier!

The government can find hundreds of billions for new aircraft carriers and other military hardware ...

But they say they can't find the money to deal with the pressing problems we face! [109]

The price of militarism includes more than high taxes and poor social services. Building nuclear weapons, for instance, has probably been the biggest environmental disaster this country has ever seen. More than 100 nuclear weapons plants owned by the Energy Department have been spewing radioactive waste into the air, dumping it in rivers, and leaking it into the soil and groundwater for decades.

All under the cover of government secrecy.

RESTRICTED AREA. NATIONAL SECURITY. KEEP YOUR NOSE OUT.

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