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A new paper published in The Lancet — one of the world's most respected health journals — finds that sanctions imposed by the West on developing countries have caused 38 million deaths since 1971.

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[-] birdwing 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

In other words, Reaganomics contributed to Islamic terrorism.

Or, to make it clickbaity-ish, "caused".

We should also be critical of the term 'terrorism': it is often a buzzword used to shut down criticism of protest groups. In this case it does hold up, though.

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