WAR: What is it good for?
Atomic Bomb Blast, Nagasaki Japan, August 1945 St. Patrick's Day arrives, the crocuses peek out after a Michigan snowstorm on the first day of Spring and a song from my formative years keeps running through my brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw This song won a Grammy nomination for Edwin Starr in 1971......A Motown hit, not a folk/ rock protest song by Bob Dylan or Joan Baez. Quick research discovers that this song was censored off Clear Channel radio stations after 9-11-2001. Fast forward to 2024. Ukraine destruction following Russian invasion Terrorists in Moscow Migrants fleeing violence in Central America. 30,000 plus Palestinians killed in Gaza, mostly children. A congressman's brother killed by his son in Flint after a violent confrontation. The Academ...