"The continued expenditure of more than $300 billion for the military every year has absolutely no effect on the danger of terrorism. If we want real security, we will have to change our posture in the world--to stop being an intervening military power and to stop dominating the economies of other countries ... for $101 billion a year in basic medical research and treatment, 8 million lives could be saved annually in the poorer countries of the world. Spending money on basic health would help in making us more secure. Bombing is not making us more secure."

--Professor Howard Zinn, Terrorism and War

Before my award-winning newspaper column in Las Vegas fell victim to corporate censorship in 2005, I received a LOAD of hate mail from white supremacists, libertarian capitalists and imperialism apologists--the latter of which will be the focus of this commentary. The following paragraph is from some hate mail I received in 2004 ...

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