{"id":351646,"date":"2018-03-11T00:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ode-to-america-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T00:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T23:14:01","slug":"ode-to-america-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ode-to-america-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to America | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My own little world<br \/>Is what I deserve<br \/>\u2018Cause I am the only child there is.<br \/>A king of it all<br \/>The belle of the ball<br \/>I promise I\u2019ve always been like this.<br \/>Forever the first<br \/>My bubble can\u2019t burst<br \/>It\u2019s almost like only I exist.<br \/>Where everything\u2019s mine<br \/>If I can keep my mouth shut tight, tight, tight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guster, \u201cCenter of Attention\u201d, <em>Lost and Gone Forever Live<\/em>, 2014<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for the city on the hill. Narcissism has changed to nihilism and solipsism: \u201cclimate change isn\u2019t real\u201d, and the ravages of history continue down the rabbit hole of memory.<\/p>\n<p>Take another look. Genocide and chattel slavery. The war against Mexico, the quite uncivil war, the Spanish-American war, the massacres in the Philippines, the two World Wars. Dust off a book and check out the post-WWII carnage. Three million dead in Korea, three to five million dead in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. A million or more in Indonesia where our CIA handed out kill lists to Suharto\u2019s regime. Untold atrocities in Nicaragua. Juntas and death squads covering South and Central America, trained at Fort Benning, Georgia. Hundreds of thousands dead in Afghanistan, a million or more in Iraq. Refugees numbered 65 million last year, with 20 million worldwide at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to America, where minorities are killed for loose cigarettes or burned-out taillights. Where kids are shot up in school after warning of the madman dozens of times. Where we are chided to \u201csupport our troops\u201d as they massacre,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/03\/ode-to-america\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own little worldIs what I deserve\u2018Cause I am the only child there is.A king of it allThe belle of the ballI promise I\u2019ve always been like this.Forever the firstMy bubble can\u2019t burstIt\u2019s almost like only I exist.Where everything\u2019s mineIf I can keep my mouth shut tight, tight, tight. \u2014 Guster, \u201cCenter of Attention\u201d, Lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}