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Rethinking the 4th of July
By Bill Bigelow
Apart from the noise pollution, air pollution, and flying debris pollution, there is something profoundly inappropriate about blowing off fireworks at a time when the United States is waging war
---- and underwriting war
---- with real fireworks around the world.
In just one example, Airwars.org, which monitors civilian harm from airpower-dominated military attacks, found that 29,651 U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria over the past four years killed at least 6,321 civilians. The pretend war of celebratory fireworks thus becomes part of a propaganda campaign that inures us
---- especially the children among us
---- to current and future wars half a world away.
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