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Category Archives: barack obama
We Can’t Forget
We are believers we’ve placed full faith in a magic that uses words to transform chaos into the norm human beings into disposable things buildings into rubble life into death (by drone) bodies into ash (and bone) cultures into terror … Continue reading →
Posted in 9/11, Afghanistan, barack obama, collateral damage, democracy, human rights, Khashoggi, NYC, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, refugees, refugees welcome, Saudi Arabia, taxes, trauma, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, Vietnam, war, war tax resistance, womens rights, Yemen
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Tagged 1984, 2001, Afghanistan, America, biden, George Orwell, george w bush, Obama, poem, poetry, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, war
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Endless war is good for your stock portfolio
Most Americans have never heard of Smedley Darlington Butler. He spent over 30 years in the United States Marine Corps, and retired as a Major General. At the time of his death in 1941, he was the most decorated Marine … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, apathy, barack obama, capitalism, collateral damage, death, empire, farming, government, Hiroshima, history, humanity, Iraq, money, propaganda, taxes, Tear Gas, truth, Uncategorized, veterans, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, world war one, world war two, WW1, Yemen
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Tagged collateral damage, death, gas, government, MLK, oil, Syria, taxes, violence, Wall Street, war, war tax resistance, weapons
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First They Came For The Black People: An Ode To Lady Justice
visions of people in my dreams lines and lines of left, right left behind leave all your belongings you won’t need them giant computer screens names and numbers from tattooed bar-codes scanned by young women progress IBM stock rising again … Continue reading →
Posted in All Lives Matter, america, american dream, apartheid, barack obama, bigotry, broken heart, collateral damage, death, dreams, Edward Bernays, Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, middle passage, One Love, racism, slavery
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Tagged All Lives Matter, America, american dream, anxiety, Apartheid, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, bread and circuses, broken heart, collateral damage, death, democracy, depression, dreams, earth, Edward Bernays, fear, I Can't Breathe, justice, one love, racism, slavery, truth
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Twenty-Two HUMAN BEINGS
September is Suicide Prevention Month. According to the government, 22 veterans commit suicide every day. It’s probably a lot higher. Twenty-two is just a number, a statistic but there are names and faces devastated families, friends and communities They say … Continue reading →
Posted in addiction, Afghanistan, alice in wonderland, america, american dream, barack obama, broken heart, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, family, george bush, heroes, Iraq, Korea, media, Memorial Day, Poetry, propaganda, religion, suicide, veterans, Veterans Day, Vietnam, violence, war, whiskey, working class, world war one, world war two, yellow ribbons
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Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, alice in wonderland, America, american dream, collateral damage, death, democracy, depleted uranium, dreams, empire, heroes, iraq, Korea, Media, Memorial Day, poetry, Propaganda, religion, suicide, Vietnam, war, World War One, World War Two, yellow ribbons
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The ‘war on terror’ gets new life for its 13th birthday…
The “War on Terror” turns 13 years old today!!! There are American kids in Afghanistan right now who were just entering kindergarten when it all started. Now we’re ‘starting’ up the Iraq war again. Not that it ever stopped. I … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, barack obama, beer, collateral damage, death, fear, george bush, hate, history, humanity, ignorance, Iraq, justice, love, memories, propaganda
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Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, bigotry, CNN, collateral damage, death, democracy, depleted uranium, dreams, fear, hate, Propaganda, war
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Veterans Day 2011
The anniversary of Armistice Day was set aside to commemorate the armistice on November 11th 1918, the end of fighting in World War One, with ‘thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, barack obama, collateral damage, george bush, history, ignorance, Iraq, norman rockwell, suicide, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, Vietnam, war, world war two
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Tagged Afghanistan, Armistice Day, bonus army, homelessness, iraq, Smedley Butler, suicide, veterans day, Veterans for Peace, war, yellow ribbons
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Memorial Day Weekend 2010, Oahu, HI
This Memorial Day, I think back to a time when war wasn’t in our thoughts, a time when rifles were only made of sticks and used as backyard playthings on hot summer afternoons where imagination was the only thing that … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, barack obama, collateral damage, george bush, history, Iraq, racism, suicide, Uncategorized, veterans, Vietnam, world war two
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The Cries
Memorial Day 2013 The cries of birth-defected babies from splintered hospital cribs fall on deaf ears The soldier lights a cigarette and uses her tattooed forearm to wipe blood and sweat from her tired face The veiled mother weeps at … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, barack obama, collateral damage, death, george bush, history, ignorance, Iraq, Poetry, racism, suicide, Uncategorized, veterans, war
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Babylon the Great
Written Memorial Day 2012 Wonderland smoke dims suicide fireflies under a Cheshire moon mocking guerrilla teenagers and confused tongues cry over dirty water dialogue as crude hands sift gold from Babel sand cutting orphan blood lines like teenage wrists with … Continue reading →
Posted in Afghanistan, american dream, barack obama, collateral damage, death, george bush, history, ignorance, Iraq, iraq veterans against the war, Poetry, racism, suicide, veterans, veterans for peace, war
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Tagged Afghanistan, alice in wonderland, american dream, Book of Revelation, collateral damage, Edward Bernays, ignorance, iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Johnny Got His Gun, kurt vonnegut, military sexual trauma, Pat Tillman, Peace, poetry, Propaganda, suicide, Veterans for Peace, war
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