Military Madness: Has our Species become Insane?

There are many reasons for the belief that much of our behaviour has become insane. Here are some of them. 

Helen Caldicott is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a world renowned campaigner against nuclear weapons. She says that our species is ‘mentally sick…
The whole society is sick’1. We are in the grip of a death wish. She points out that 1 in 25 people are sociopaths with ‘no moral conscience’ and these are the people who rise to the top; who are in charge.

Let's Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us

Our economy is based on military spending, billions of dollars flushed down the military/industrial toilet. That money could provide needed social services and the push to clean energy.

I have been ranting and writing and marching my adult life and things just keep getting worse. Maybe it's already too late.

AlterNet: ForeignPolicy: Let's Face It: The Warfare State Is Part of Us: " in the words of Thomas Merton, 'It is the sane ones, the well-adapted ones, who can without qualms and without nausea aim the missiles and press the buttons that will initiate the great festival of destruction that they, the sane ones, have prepared.'"

Militarty removes 58 badly needed Arabic translators

It's more important to fight gays than terrorists.

AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Colbert: "I've Had Plenty of Opportunities to be Gay" [VIDEO]