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James Carroll

Our sense of troubled normalcy returns

By James Carroll
November 2, 2009

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One year after the financial panic was at full bore the US economy is more shackled than ever to a military budget, which is money spent, for all its benefits, on death. Why is the gulf between haves and have-nots still the normal structure of economic order -- or is that what our military budget aims to protect against? (Full article: 720 words)

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