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To Counter Terror, Abolish War by Kathy Kelly 1204 words Published in: War is a Crime, Code Pink, Eurasia Review, Anchorage Press, Pax Christi USA, Black Star News, Transcend, Global Diaspora News, Westside Gazette, Peace and Planet News, Waging Nonviolence, LA Progressive, Counter Currents, Truth Out, Z Net, Portside, Dates: September 10,11,13,16, October 20, November
I vividly recall reading Bill McKibben’s prophetic work, The End of Nature, serialized in The New Yorker beginning 11 September 1989..
We pretend to have enemies, but mostly what we “have” are people whose lives simply don’t matter. And then we kill them, either directly — via airstrikes or other war games, turning them into collateral damage — or indirectly . . . by simply failing to notice that they exist…