Trumptown—a Planetary Jonestown
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Tom H. Hastings
8d ago
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Radio FreeTrumptown—a Planetary Jonestownradiofree.orgIn 1978 in Guyana some 918 people—one-third of them children—were poisoned or shot dead in a religious sect community, Jonestown. Until 9.11.2001 it was the largest mass murder of civilians in US history. Of course, both those terrible events would pale alongside the civilian death count of any nuclear war, which could even end human More The post Trumptown—a Planetary Jonestown appeared first on CounterPunch.org .
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