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July 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The country is being run by the military industrial complex. This country is slipping into dictatorship. The people of the world have got to be made aware that it is dangerous. It is armed and dangerous,” said Sherwood Ross, who is also a reporter for OPED News.
“They [US authorities] are spending 700 billion dollars for war. They are spending by contrast half a billion dollars for the Peace Corp. Those figures have got to be turned around,” he added.
He made the comments after a young American killed several people and injured dozens others during a shooting spree in a movie theater in Colorado early Friday.
“Why don’t we hear about shootings in Glencoe, Winnetka and Wilmette, Illinois, and in the well-to-do suburbs? That’s because there’s no poverty in those suburbs. That’s because people aren’t struggling with other people for the basic necessities of life,” Ross argued.
He also noted that Aristotle’s quotation saying “poverty is the parent of crime and revolution” is true.
The activist also criticized US President Barack Obama and his predecessors for not meeting demands of American people in inner cities.
“We do not have a president and we have not had presidents who will address the problems of the inner cities,” Ross said.
“Unless we have a president who will do something for people of color in our country, who will improve the schools, who will improve the job opportunities, who will improve the housing, who will give people a reason to live with dignity and respect, we are not going to have an end to the gun culture even if we were to pass 100 laws banning guns. It would not end. We need a more fundamental change than that,” he concluded.
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