You are here Home › Global Politics › Europe › How Can We Spend $5 Billion On Ukraines Fascists While Cutting Food Stamps At Home? Andy PiascikMarch 12,2014 -A +A 0 Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland; unabashedly imperial [Ukraine Conflict] It’s remarkable how the United States spends massive amounts of money on war, supporting terrorism and fomenting coups overseas at the same time politicians and pundits insist with a straight face that there’s no money for successful, much-needed domestic programs. Just since 2002, the US has spent trillions of dollars waging war on Iraq and Afghanistan, with absolutely no end in sight to the spending or to the misery of people in those two countries. At the same time, Unemployment Insurance, veterans’ benefits and many other programs get shredded supposedly because “there’s no money.” Meanwhile, tensions flare in the Ukraine and Venezuela largely because of vast sums of money the US has funneled to counterrevolutionaries there. Corporate flacks, Democrats and Republicans, and Fox News, are united in insisting that US imperialism has the right to interfere in or invade any country it wants whenever it wants without having to answer or be held accountable to anyone. - See more at: blackstarnews/global-politics/europe/how-can-we-spend-5-billion-on-ukraines-fascists-while-cutting-food-stamps-at#sthash.KEMHQUkt.dpuf
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:33:44 +0000
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