Saturday Music Hall: 4th of July Weekend Edition

This is Neil Young's video to honor our fallen troops featuring the song America the Beautiful sung by a large choir. It's the last song on Neil's Living With War album. Even though the video was created for Memorial Day this year, I think it's appropriate for this Independence Day weekend as well. Since Memorial Day 2006, about 75 more American troops have been killed (through the end of June). The carnage continues, whether American or Iraqi, military or civilian, man, woman or child.

The hundreds of billions of dollars (now projected to be almost a half a TRILLION) being spent on this unnecessary and illegal war remain mostly unaccounted for. Not one elected official has so far been able to explain to me exactly where the $2 billion a week is going. We''ll be paying for this neocon nightmare with human lives and limbs for as long as it lasts. And for generations fiscally, emotionally, morally and spiritually. Only we can force our elected officials to stop it. We the people. For after all:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. -- The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Here's another video that lays out the case that what we are really experiencing is the start of the Third World War -- a corporatist war hatched right out in the open by the Project for the New American Century. They should have called it the Project for the New Corporatist Fascism in my opinion. You may consider this is an alarmist point of view, but think about it in terms of what Bush and his cronies have been doing with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, almost from day one of their administration. Plenty of food for thought on this 230th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence....