Boston teacher Nino Brown, of the ANSWER Coalition, speaks with TRNN’s Ben Norton about the links between US militarism, gun violence, and police brutality. He connects the epidemic of school shootings domestically to the endless wars internationally.
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Haahahahahaha!!!
Exactly! Finally , someone draws the link. Thank you!
What an impressive young man … I love the youth that has stepped up and is leading on this issue.
Our CIA-run media promotes violence and war via Hollywood, video games, TV, etc.
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As Martin Luther King Jr said in his seminal Riverside Church speech on April 4 1967
"America is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet."
Right then right now.
The citizens are mentored by their government.
Follow the money. In Switzerland they are financing both the Arms trades worldwide as well as promoting gun ownership. They recently voted to allow sales of weapons to coutries in conflict. But they are only going to sell to countries that the CIA is involved in.
America was taken over by the Trilateral Commission in the 1970's and you are now our vassals. Give us access to the Fed, your poor minorities to make a military and keep our dinosaur juice coming in tanker ships, please.
I wish the Parkland movement would become ANTI-WAR. We need to stop the madness.
So nice to hear a reasonable discussion about this. We must use more of our resources to encourage peace & personal growth. This is why the govt used the drug war to persecute peace loving hippies, to stop our influence.
I've been trying to make this point since forever… Nice work! It's definitely our compliance and acceptance of brutality, starting with the trail of tears!
Nino has got a handle on this. Thank you!
Funny how they talk about North Korea. We are the same; Citizens suffering, infrastructure crumbling and we spend Trillions on defence. UGH
So very nice to see a young man connecting the dots to war and violence at home…each member of Congress gets $700,00 a year from the military in addition to being owned by corporations, Congress does not work for we the people….watch your 6
'Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America' by Kathleen Belew is a good, thorough book about exactly how our international wars have increased violence at home ever since Vietnam.
Our youth are our mirrors, where we can see ourselves as adults. Our youth are mirroring the gang violence called war they see in adults.
We call our youth gang members because they try to control a piece of land, territory in their neighborhoods. There is a you are with us or against us. Outsiders do not belong. Gangs are at war with other gangs. Some youth grow up and leave the gang mentality. Some do not and become leaders of land, territories called countries. There is your are patriot, with the country or against it. Outsiders are not welcomed in the country and these adults then war with the outsiders, the other countries. Countries, their leaders, their military are adult gangs.
When only the indigenous people lived in what are now called Americas and Africa, there were no countries, gang territories. People moved freely. Thus no or very few incidents of wars and its gun, gang violence. This planet is not divided into areas for people to live. Watch all the other lifeforms on the planet. How many of them live in countries, territories to protect and go to war to protect them?
So yes a gang and its territory called America has violence within its territory against those who are not with them. It also has the same violence with other countries, gangs.
I agree. However, I get so tired of actions being about white people. If you examine the rolls of people participating in military operations you will find all colors of skin. Dividing people by race weakens action by subjugating violence by race. I am so damn tired of hearing white supremacists, a trigger phrase that condemns us all
When are we getting part 2 ?
Hollywood "heroes" showcase the role, and our Empire's military shows the junior bullies and alienated youth that violence "works".
Talk about setting a bad example!
(And then we "don't have the money" for school counselors and enough teachers.)
Ditch BOTH CORPORATE PARTIES!
Toxic Masculinity is alive & thriving in the US, with our militarism being one example. It's ingrained in our culture — for example compare American TV "detective shows" in which gun violence is universal with British equivalents in which the investigators sometimes don't even carry a gun, but instead primarily use their brains.