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-- extinguished uncounted species;
-- exterminated millions of human beings (for profit);" and
-- keeps exhausting unrenewable natural resources wastefully.
Moreover, under Bush, Obama, and complicit lawmakers, the process accelerated. No wonder growing millions are mad, perhaps heading for rebellion as pain levels become intolerable while America's super rich prosper. Inevitably that assures trouble though no one can predict when or what spark will set it off.
Last December, months of Middle East uprisings began after Tunisian national Mohammed Bouazizi, an unemployed graduate working as a vegetable seller, self-immolated in front of government offices in Sidi Bouzid, protesting police confiscation of his merchandise for operating without a permit.
Middle East/North Africa intifadas followed in over a dozen countries from Morocco and Algeria to Egypt, Oman and Yemen. The process shows no signs of abating, addressing intolerable poverty, unemployment, corruption, and repression millions want ended despite brutal crackdowns trying to stop them, including imperial US intervention to safeguard the region for capital.
Besides Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, America's bloody Libyan/Yemen wars have taken a horrendous toll, slaughtering human beings to save them - bombing, droning, assassinating, and immiserating millions in conflicts with no end.
Not enough for outgoing Defense Secretary Gates, a war criminal by any standard, criticizing NATO members as shirkers. On June 10, New York Times writers Thom Shanker and Steven Erlanger headlined, "Blunt US Warning Reveals Deep Strains in NATO," saying:
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