14 December 2016

Aleppo: the Heartbreak

We hear about it day in and day out. If we listen. A people martyred. A cosmopolitan jewel of civilization laid to ruin. I just shut off NPR when I hear a report including a poet still holed out among the trapped and still barely alive. I shut the radio off when I heard him say something like "I'll write against the destruction of my city…"

Meanwhile, the press, the buzz, the discussions seem poised to let oil production (i.e. Capital) dictate every moral compromise imaginable. Russia, U.S., China: How will these three big oafs carve up the world in the next decade?

Meanwhile, the top 1% must be elated: Wall Street is having orgasm after orgasm.

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