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Fugazi - Smallpox Champion

Smallpox champion, U-S-of-A,
Give natives some blankets,
Warm like the grave.

This is the pattern, cut from the cloth,
This is the pattern, designed to take you right out.
This is the frontier, with winter's so cold,
Greed informs action where action makes bold.

To take all the cotton that's cut from the stalk,
Weave the disease that's gonna take you right out.
What is good for the future, what was good for the past -
Won't last.

Bury your heart, U-S-of-A,
History rears up to spit in your face.
You saw what you wanted,
You took what you saw,
We know how you got it,
Your method equals wipe out.

The end of the frontier and all that you own,
Under the blankets of all that you've done,
Memory serves us to serve you,
Yet memory serves us to never let you wipe out.

Cha-cha-cha-champion!
You'll get yours!
Wipe out!

Poignant stencil by Dustin Spagnola.

Another gem from MIT World featuring Noam Chomsky discussing the militarization of science and space.

Howard Zinn, author of the must-read A People's History of the United States, passed away today. This is an MIT World video featuring Zinn breaking it down in a talk titled "The Myth of American Exceptionalism."