I know that with my amateur sound set up the quality is poor on a phone and a bit better on most PCs and that the words tend to get crowded out by the clangy sound of the electric piano.
Dylan's classic Masters of War has been an anthem for many of my friends who are also combat veterans, some Vietnam veterans like me and some veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. There's nothing like the crucible of combat to enable one to see through the masks of the warmongers, people who, as Thomas Comeau points out, "start wars but never fight in them!"
President Eisenhower warned us about these assholes way back in the 50s during the liberal consensus, but his words fell on deaf ears. Consequently, we now have a military/industrial/congressional empire that's legalized preemptive war and mass murder in its relentless quest for global domination. Unfortunately, the miscreants who run this imperialist racket abide by a one-dimensional industrial standard in pursuit of their dreams of glory, ignoring the more diverse standard of Mother Nature's protocols that imposes ecological limits on human behavior. They fail to perceive that an economic policy based on permanent war is unsustainable and ultimately lethal for every living thing. Consequently, the hubris of the bellicose neoliberals adjusting the levers of power in their partisan bogs in the Swamp, combined with the climate crisis, may soon bring mankind's dominion over the earth to a fiery end.
Thank you for your eloquent comment, Stewart. When I taught US history with a big emphasis on imperialism, my most radical students were often military veterans who knew I wasn't lying when I tried to expose Uncle Sam's many war crimes! I was reporting on shit they already knew to no small extent.
Dylan could see through the propaganda put out by the Military Industrial Media Complex and describe the actual horrors of war and the Capitalist's-imperialistic killers who plan and run the wars.
One of his best efforts. We( sds coffeehouse project) in '68 at Ft. Dix, printed it "Shakedown", underground newspaper and it was spread all over the base. The returning GI's were the strongest supporters there. If I remember correctly, that Zimmerman kid even snuck it onto national TV once.
I heard Dylan sing it on national tv in the mdidle of Desert Storm, swear to God. He sang it so fast it was hard to hear the words; I always wondered if they made that a requirement. I'm surprised there aren't even more different covers of it....I have a minor key blue version of it that's better but less tear jerky than this one I did.
Dylan's classic Masters of War has been an anthem for many of my friends who are also combat veterans, some Vietnam veterans like me and some veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. There's nothing like the crucible of combat to enable one to see through the masks of the warmongers, people who, as Thomas Comeau points out, "start wars but never fight in them!"
President Eisenhower warned us about these assholes way back in the 50s during the liberal consensus, but his words fell on deaf ears. Consequently, we now have a military/industrial/congressional empire that's legalized preemptive war and mass murder in its relentless quest for global domination. Unfortunately, the miscreants who run this imperialist racket abide by a one-dimensional industrial standard in pursuit of their dreams of glory, ignoring the more diverse standard of Mother Nature's protocols that imposes ecological limits on human behavior. They fail to perceive that an economic policy based on permanent war is unsustainable and ultimately lethal for every living thing. Consequently, the hubris of the bellicose neoliberals adjusting the levers of power in their partisan bogs in the Swamp, combined with the climate crisis, may soon bring mankind's dominion over the earth to a fiery end.
Thank you for your eloquent comment, Stewart. When I taught US history with a big emphasis on imperialism, my most radical students were often military veterans who knew I wasn't lying when I tried to expose Uncle Sam's many war crimes! I was reporting on shit they already knew to no small extent.
Dylan could see through the propaganda put out by the Military Industrial Media Complex and describe the actual horrors of war and the Capitalist's-imperialistic killers who plan and run the wars.
One of his best efforts. We( sds coffeehouse project) in '68 at Ft. Dix, printed it "Shakedown", underground newspaper and it was spread all over the base. The returning GI's were the strongest supporters there. If I remember correctly, that Zimmerman kid even snuck it onto national TV once.
I heard Dylan sing it on national tv in the mdidle of Desert Storm, swear to God. He sang it so fast it was hard to hear the words; I always wondered if they made that a requirement. I'm surprised there aren't even more different covers of it....I have a minor key blue version of it that's better but less tear jerky than this one I did.
That well describes those who start wars but never fight in them!.
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Points to My Baby for rocking it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXuIa8n1aA
I don't like the Eddie Vedder cover. Here's folk legend Odetta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38dOYW7-B0E
Look at all these covers - LOL: https://secondhandsongs.com/work/4558/all