Click here to access article by Paul L. Atwood from CounterPunch.
This writer covers a lot of ground while trying to establish the truths about our current political realities--possibly too much ground. But, he does it so well in this piece. My only criticism, and a frequent one regarding social-political critics, is the glaring omission of the name of the underlying system which is the source of many of the disasters facing us today: capitalism--the system that insures the private accumulation of socially produced wealth. Instead, he uses circumlocutions like "globalism" or "American way of life".
I don't know if he is a liberal who feels that there is no alternative, or if he fears adverse consequences from colleagues and authorities if he should mention the taboo word of capitalism in connection with disasters and war crimes.