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Ochs wrote "I Ain't Marching Any More" as American involvement in the Vietnam War was beginning to grow. The song criticizes all of American military history from the perspective of a weary soldier who has been present at every single war since the War of 1812. The chorus notes that "it's always the old who lead us to the war, always the young to fall" and asks whether the price of military victory has been too high. Ochs said of the song that it "borders between pacifism and treason, combining the best qualities of both." He also wrote "the fact that you won't be hearing this song on the radio is more than enough justification for the writing of it."

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US corporate media were in vocal support of last year’s coup against Bolivia’s Evo Morales. But they’re rather quiet now that Jeanine Añez—who, in a legislative session without a quorum, due to the fact that many lawmakers were in hiding, jumped the line of succession and declared herself president—is putting off holding elections, again; and has said she is running, despite previous promises to the contrary. US media were frictionless transmitters for assertions of fraud in Morales’ re-election coming from the Organization of American States, assertions that, some now quietly acknowledge, were groundless.

Hanan Ashwari has been on the PLO Executive Committee and has often served as the voice of the PLO for decades and she is the featured Palestinian voice this morning, in conversation with Podcast producer Salem Barameh. Unfortunately the entire conversation is longer than the time we have, but you will hear most of it.

Economists are warning Americans that the long-term consequences of the pandemic could be severe joblessness for millions of Americans faced with permanent unemployment. Prof. Richard Wolff says that, along with climate change and covid, we are going through an economic trauma like the Great Depression and this trauma will shape the 21st century just as profoundly as the Depression of the 1930s did. He lists in detail solutions of the New Deal that would be of great benefit today but are not implemented. Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Gowans describes how Israel was first created as an extension of 19th century European colonialism and functions today as a means of power projection for the United States. THE RADIO STATION WENT SILENT NEAR THE START OF THIS PIECE. WE WILL RESCHEDULE.