Salon Writer Blasts U.S. Military Spending, Blames Ebola on ‘Greed’
The Ebola
epidemic in
His headline loudly claimed that “capitalism and obscene military spending” that “set the stage for this unprecedented global outbreak of Ebola.”
Writing about Ebola victims on Oct. 22 at Salon.com, Hennelly said, “No missile killed them, but our greed and global death-oriented spending priorities have left fingerprints on all these bodies.”
Those “death-oriented
priorities,” according to Hennelly, were
He went on
to praise 20 other countries which spend a greater percentage of their
Hennelly
also ignored the massive Chinese economy. In 2012,
Hennelly used Ebola as a excuse to attack capitalism making it sound exploitive when he said the U.S. and Europe have traditionally seen Africa as “a place from which we extract diamonds, gold, bauxite, oil, whatever, at the lowest possible price, so as to make the most profit. It is just business.”
Ignoring tax and regulatory hurdles as well as government corruption, he ridiculously claimed this was an “age of unfettered global capitalism” and that transnational corporations have exploited it to their advantage.
He then took
it one step further, blaming free trade for
The closest Hennelly came to that was admitting that “All too often African leaders decide it’s more critical to spend money to buttress their military for their own self-preservation, as opposed to investing in the public health of their constituents.”
