Liberation

The American Dream
did all it could  to shield and distract
the oblivious civs from the savage fact
                                   of the nightmare of war

as the armies of MICIMATT-complex whores
wrapped their bullets and draped their bombs
                     in the silky strands of Old Glory
misleading the gullible flag wavers on
                     while suppressing the actual story

       with its hidden web of malevolent motives
       its veiled reality  of wholesale immorality
       and its unspoken broken-record chorus
              of “undermine overthrow and install”

— the third verb  reserved for allied quislings;
              the first two   for the principled few
                     regimes that refused to play ball.


The star  of the might-makes-right military show
being its financial and war crimes immunity
              the hegemon's martial-economic M.O.
              was staged with implicit impunity

where and whenever the grandmasters of disaster
would (in their twisted wisdom) choose to produce
that tragedy-spattered farce
                     the playbills would list as Liberation

       — that exquisitely duplicitous go-to excuse
       that long-running ruse
       for unjust sanctions and baseless invasions.


Whenever ordered  to do so by the brutal
                     cabal  of psychopathic banksters
the mega-corporate war party poodles
— in service  of not-so-covert global looting —
dutifully played the ace  of interventionist cards

appealing to feelings for those timeless canards
of delivering liberty  and justice abroad
              only to sow   countless rows of misery
              in the bloody course and odious cause
              of plunder and debt-compelled slavery.


Mining high-grade veins
       of mindless duty and misplaced bravery
and pockets  rich with the promise of escape
              from the grinding privation of penury

       as they lured both the desperately poor
       and the sadly  soundly brainwashed
              into making the mistake of enlisting

the usual sadistic
narcissistic  death-dealing scum
              were nothing if not meticulous

in shrouding the unfeeling guns
                            and indifferent missiles
in the star-spangled patterns
                                   of red white and blue

— flag-waving traitors drumming up wars
              to sacrifice many for the profits of few.



But that was then     and now  as the victim
              of a slow-motion controlled demolition

the faded and fading  suicidal imperium
(having served the purpose of the hidden hand
now busy directing  some infernal internal plan)

appeared to have dropped all pretense
of not just benevolence     but of sanity itself
as it openly welcomed the prospect of calamity.