#poetry

The good-for-business wars
by Marge Piercy

Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
we really consume?] things we don’t need
with money we don’t have. Credit cards
weren’t invented for our convenience.

That’s the American Way troops are sent
to defend in lands where we don’t know
their language, march through their
customs, bitch about their religions.

Most people now can’t even find Kansas
on a map; Afghanistan might as well
be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
Their corpses we see on television

lack faces as well as names. We
count our own dead but won’t allot
money to talk nightmares from brains
of those who made it out. Who can

remember a time when we weren’t
at war someplace? No one in power
cares that we haven’t won a war
in seventy years. Still we invade.

When the same mistake is made over
and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
times it means that every cooked-up
invasion earns some people billions.

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It's got a ridiculously low number of views, but please do watch it. This is the training that many in the police take. They are trained with the idea that everything and everyone is a threat. They are not protecting and serving, they are taught that they're in a war and they act as a consequence.

(Of course, this is just a small fraction of the problems with the US police)

This is how Centralized Democracy should work and should have worked in the Soviet Union.

And this is how Democratic Confederalism works in Rojava

A 2016 Pentagon training video described how the military will need to respond to the “emerging complexity” of urban areas that will be experiencing widespread poverty and the effects of climate change in the coming years. “Megacities are complex systems where people and structures are compressed together in ways that defy both our understanding of city planning and military doctrine,” says the video’s narrator. “These are the future breeding grounds, incubators, and launching pads for adversaries and hybrid threats.” ... The document says that in order to overcome these uprisings from the underclass, the slums themselves will have to be targeted on a large and indiscriminate scale

The U.S. isn’t just becoming more like a Third World country-it’s worse than that
https://medium.com/@rainershea612/the-u-s-isnt-just-becoming-more-like-a-third-world-country-it-s-worse-than-that-a8e1ba95d593