Militarism and Poverty: The Paradox of History’s Wealthiest Nation

President Johnson’s “poverty tour,” 1964 (Wikimedia Commons)

American ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley recently expressed outrage over a report calling attention to the desolate conditions of her glorious homeland:

“It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America,” Haley wrote to Senator Bernie Sanders in response to his call to uphold international human rights treaty…