Shock and anger should be directed at U.$. imperialism daily

As the people in the u.s. register tremendous shock and anger MIM reminds our 
readers that tragedy of this scale is perpetuated by the u.s. imperialists on a 
regular basis. People should be shocked and angered every day by the mass murder 
and destruction caused by the u.s. government and capitalist institutions. We 
call on all people upset by this tragedy to think about why these deaths of 
Amerikans are more important to you than the deaths of thousands of people 
around the world every day. 

Over the past two years the U.$ has carried out hundreds of air strikes against 
Iraq killing people and destroying property. At the same time, the U.$. is 
enforcing an embargo that is literally killing Iraqi people. According to a 
UNICEF report 200 Iraqi children under age five die every day as a result of the 
sanctions. Over the past ten years, over 500,000 children have died as a result 
of the sanctions.(1)

The bombings of Iraq are just one of the more open acts of violence perpetuated 
by the u.s. terrorist military. That same military supports u.s.- funded death 
squads in the Third World in their war against the people, defending reactionary 
governments propped up and funded by the u.s. For instance, in 2000 Human Rights 
Watch released a report detailing ties between the Colombian Armed Forces and 
right-wing paramilitary groups, while the U.$. was working on approval of 
expanding funding for the Colombian military which hundreds of millions of 
dollars from the U.$. every year. Perhaps the most tragic and sweeping form of 
terror against the people of the world that MIM holds the imperialists 
responsible for is the denial of food and medicine. Starvation and preventable 
disease cause much more death than all war, terrorism and political repression 
combined. Because the middle- classes of the wealthy countries do not experience 
starvation and preventable disease, they tend to attack only the violence they 
see and overlook this "institutional violence." We Maoists believe a dead persyn 
is dead whether shot by a bullet or starved to death. When the capitalists back 
military governments that allow factories where workers are forced to work long 
hours for wages on which they can not survive, we hold those capitalists 
responsible for the deaths from starvation. It is estimated that 40,000 Third 
World children starve to death or die from simple preventable diseases each 
day.(2) 38,000 children starve to death each day (3), and 60,000,000 die of 
starvation each year.(4) Estimates of 10,000 people killed in the recent attack 
on the u.s. pale in comparison to the deaths caused directly by the U.$. and by 
imperialism more generally every day. If you oppose tragic and unnecessary 
violence and death join the only effective movement against the biggest 
terrorist in the world, U.$. imperialism.

Notes:
1. 5. USA Today, Dec. 09, 1999 Page 18A. 
2. New York Times, September 17, 1992, p. a24. 
3. http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/vegeta.html 4. Pulitzer Prize 
author John Robbins, heir to Baskin Robbins fortune (When we say we use 
bourgeois sources at MIM, we do not kid!) 
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