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Uncle Sam Overdosing on War
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Aug 2017
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Washington’s European allies are tired of endless U.S. wars, said Duboisian scholar and Black Radical Organizing Committee activist Dr. Anthony Monteiro. Americans are fed up, too. “The nation is weary of war, the nation has been bankrupted by war, and I think people are beginning to realize that these are wars that we can’t win,” said Monteiro.

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