My Country 'Tis Guilty (bluegrass music)

By Donald A. Smith, PhD. Using my own lyrics and Suno.com for the music, I created this bluegrass variation of My Country 'Tis Of Thee. 

1. My country 'tis guilty,           2. My lethal country, thee,            3. Iran, Congo, Vietnam,
Of greed and tyranny,                Beats war drums endlessly,             Indonesia and Afghanistan,
Of war I sing.                       Thy sins I mourn.                      Your hands are stained.
Land where the truth has died,       I rue the blood you spilled,           Dirty wars in Latin lands,
Land funding genocide,               Arms dealers' coffers filled,          Iraq, Ukraine, and Syria stand,
For every crime you hide,            Grief-stricken hearts are chilled,     Libya’s broken sands,
Let justice ring.                    Thy wars I scorn.                      The innocent slain.

4. Wars provoked by secret schemes,  5. Costs paid in gold and blood,
Assassinations, coups obscene,       Ten million lifetimes’ flood,
Militias you've armed.               They’ll never breathe.
Eight hundred bases spread,          The wasted trillions spent,
NATO’s reach swells in dread,        The people’s spirit rent,
War drums beat to China’s stead,     Will you ever repent
Oh the lives you harmed!             Imperial greed?

Another version:

Puppet of Uncle Sam

Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine

U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"

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:

America the Battleful (Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!)
We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The-Endless War Blues (different version)
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
The-Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.

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