Weekend Edition May 13 - 15, 2011 The Good Don't Triumph and There is No Justice DePalma's "Blow Out" Thirty Years On By RANDY SHIELDS
>On the roof top in "Blow Out," on a raw revelatory monumentally sad >Independence Day night, the flags wave, the fireworks explode and the cheers >rise while, out of sight and under the din, another innocent person is >anonymously killed for the American ruling class. That's the American creation >story, by God: the good don't triumph and there is no justice. America wrecks >the world, America moves on -- and it all so easily escapes the notice of the >revelers. America doesn't pay, America doesn't make amends, so get used to it, >red man, black man, yellow man, sand man. And if every once in a blue moon the >serfs get hit and bellyache, "Why do they hate us!" -- and the masters go on a >ten-year murder tantrum across the earth -- well, for Wall Street, the >Pentagon and the corrupt politicians who successfully run on racism and >warmongering, well, it's all good. In fact, it's a bonanza. Let a thousand >Blackwaters bloom. That's your American revolution, that's your gift to the >world.< full: http://www.counterpunch.org/shields05132011.html
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