Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses Secretary of State John Kerry’s frank admission that “foreign policy is economic policy;” how the US came to dominate and “impose order” in the global marketplace; how the government manufactures the consent of Americans to start wars; individualism versus global citizenship and responsibility; and why antiwar activists waste energy when they try divining the government’s “true motive” for waging war.
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