By Henry A. Giroux & Brad Evans
“There is a revealing similarity between the attacks on September 11, 2001 – when airplanes were flown into the twin towers, killing thousands of people – and the attacks in Paris, in which over 130 people were killed and hundreds wounded. Yet, what they have in common has been largely overlooked in the mainstream and alternative media’s coverage of the more recent terrorist attacks. While both assaults have been rightly viewed as desperate acts of alarming terrorism, what has been missed is that both acts of violence were committed by young men. This is not a minor issue because unraveling this similarity provides the possibility for addressing the conditions that made such attacks possible….”
Read the entire essay, “The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the Impoverishment of the Future,” in Truthout.org
And look for Henry A. Giroux’s latest book, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press: America’s Addiction to Terrorism
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