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Salute to City of Angels’ son!
He wrote, he wrote, he wrote
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Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots,
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Massacring those that VOTED for them—
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The late Glen Ford would probably refer to events in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and elsewhere as the “blowback” from France’s colonial past.
“The structural crisis of capitalism in its neoliberal form has created a legitimacy crisis for the capitalist rulers, making the use of force a permanent strategy for maintaining their dominance.”
