Belated: Friday's new song from davidrovics

"Four Blank Slates" - from the upcoming CD, "Halliburton Boardroom Massacre"

"Another song for Memorial Day. Based on something Anne Feeney told me about her visit to the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial building in Pittsburgh." - david rovics

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Beside an unused union hall
And an abandoned factory
By the Allegheny River
In another rust belt city
You can see the well-dressed families
On Memorial Day
Reading the names on the walls
Of all those who went away

Who went off in a ship
And came back in a bag
Packed into a coffin
Wrapped up in a flag
I saw a war on every stone
I read a name on every line
And when I reached the end
A chill ran down my spine

(Chorus)

Four blank slates
For battlefields yet unknown
That soon some will call their own
A wordless message in a frame

Four blank slates
For the dice that aren’t yet tossed
For the lives that aren’t yet lost
For a war without a name

What will be written on that stone
Will it be on Persian soil
Will they say it was for freedom
Or Venezuelan oil
The only thing that’s certain
Is it will be across the sea
And the new names on this rock
Will have died in someone else’s country

(Chorus)

How many other nations
Are already planning their next war
How many people know
It’ll be on someone else’s shore
Will there come a time
When all good people are enraged
To see a slate awaiting
A war that’s not yet waged

(Chorus)

History of the Car Bomb

For this rainy day, this is a good read, notably including the United States training terrorists in Afghanistan and other tidbits that reveal how dirty our own hands are -- not to mention how hypocritical this so called "war on terror" is:

• The Poor Man's Air Force: A History of the Car Bomb (Part 1) by Mike Davis "Buda's Wagon (1920)"
  
  "You have shown no pity to us! We will do likewise. We will dynamite you!" -- Anarchist warning (1919)



• Car Bombs With Wings: A History of the Car Bomb (Part 2) by Mike Davis "The CIA's Car Bomb University (the 1980s)"
  
  "The CIA officers that Yousef worked with closely impressed upon him one rule: never use the terms sabotage or assassination when speaking with visiting congressmen." -- Steve Coll, Ghost Wars

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"Car Bomb, 8/11/82" - Warren Criswell

(Warren drew 'the Black Riders' from the first movie version of Lord of the Rings shown on TV)