Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism: Part One
Using my own lyrics and Udio.com for the music, I created a rock opera about U.S. militarism. This is part one, on U.S. illegal and disastrous wars since WWII. (Also available on Youtube here.) Part Two, on the war in Ukraine is here. The finale is Blessed are the Peacemakers.
How many wars will it take you to see? It's the same nasty script from U.S. history. Assassinations, bombings, invasions, coups. Regime change operations, tighten the noose. Proxy wars, provocations, cover-ups, lies. Come on, people, open your eyes! We leave arms treaties, escalate arms races. We've got 800 fuckin overseas military bases! [Instrumental section] Dirty Wars in Latin America, overthrown democracies. Regime change operations, support for autocracies. Iran in '53, Congo in '61, Plausible deniability, oh what fun! A million dead in Indonesia, several million in Vietnam. Millions more in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Even the war in Serbia was based on lies: The C.I.A. used K.L.A. terrorists as allies. Ally with terrorists and Nazi militias. Brutal sanctions against nations that defy us. Millions are killed, we don't give a shit. What's important is military contractor profits. Dirty tricks by the C.I.A. and the N.E.D. We're the indispensable nation, we do what we please! Thirty-five trillion in debt. What do we care? It's our Manifest Destiny to control nations everywhere.
Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
See also Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars,
Endless War Blues,
Windy City Protests — from Vietnam in ’68 to Gaza in ’24,
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI,
Machinery of Death (death metal song),
No More Stupid Wars!,
Lesser of Two Evils Blues,
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism.
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.