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Americas Addiction to Terrorism

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Nearly all of life, every aspect of it from birth to death, has been commodified, — location: 73 ^ref-14339

solidarity, compassion, collective self-help, fearlessness, hatred of official authority. — location: 156 ^ref-46506

neoliberalism legitimates a culture of cruelty and harsh competitiveness, and wages a war against public values and those public spheres that contest the rule and ideology of capital. It saps the democratic foundation of solidarity, degrades collaboration, and tears up all forms of social obligation. — location: 215 ^ref-8792

The state has become synonymous with the rule of corporate capitalism, which marks an updated form of domestic terrorism that wreaks havoc on a working class deprived of its pensions, poor people ending up in jail because they cannot pay their bills, young people suffering under the weight of insufferable debt, and black and brown citizens brutalized by SWAT teams and militarized police forces. — location: 228 ^ref-51629

strive to legitimate modes of identification and values that buy into the notion that capitalism, rather than humanity, is the agent of history. — location: 393 ^ref-58808

apart from the crisis of democracy itself. — location: 603 ^ref-42666

The greatest struggle faced by the American public is not terrorism, but a struggle on behalf of justice, freedom, and democracy for all of the citizens of the globe. — location: 609 ^ref-20331

in a market-driven society with its unchecked individualism, sheer social Darwinism, and refusal to think about social costs or, for that matter, any notion of the public good, nurturing an addiction to cruelty, violence, and torture becomes only too easy. — location: 665 ^ref-56732

for the first time in history half of U.S. public schoolchildren live in poverty.1 The U.S. Department of Education reported in 2013 that there were 1.3 million homeless children enrolled in U.S. schools, up 85 percent since 2008; and the organization Feeding America has estimated that 16 million U.S. children, or 21.6 percent, live without food security. — location: 1192 ^ref-4214

Neoliberal capitalism is parasitic and sociopathic, and it needs to be replaced by a form of radical democracy that refuses to equate capitalism with democracy. — location: 1649 ^ref-16451