Blessings and Curses Come Unbidden
Using Udio.com for the music, I created this song about how both joy and sorrow seem to come unbidden, only loosely related to my actions.
Like a breeze that moves the trees, Came a joy that set me free, Not my hands that made it so, It just came, and now I know. But now sorrow rises from deep inside, A storm from which I cannot hide, Not my fault, not my call, It just came, and here I fall. Blessings rise, like the dawn, Curses fall, when night is long. Neither asked for, neither earned, In this life, I twist and turn. Maybe joy will set me free. Maybe peace will return to me. But for now there's fear and pain. I grit my teeth and cry again. Unbidden winds that sweep the sky, Through it all, I laugh, I cry. Blessings, curses, come and go, But I forge on, to what end, I do not know.
A different, more complex version (from 1:00)
Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
For example, Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
Other music
Uncle Same is Gay (a country music song)
The MAGA Song
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
America the Battleful (O Beautiful for Endless Wars)
O Beautiful for Endless Wars
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism (folk guitar and voice)
Eisenhower warning about the Military-Industrial Complex (epic chorus)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.