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We'll Teach Them How to Privatize

from El Pulpo by John Davis & the Cicadas

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For more see:
Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism and Global
Fracture
Vijay Prashad: The Poorer Nations
Michael Klare, Resource Wars
Chalmers Johnson, Blowback Trilogy

lyrics

It’s time to sail out on the sea
Across the waves on ships
That we sail for many thousand miles
The oceans are our shopping aisles

We’ve got satellites and drones
We’re far away, but not alone
We’ve got decks of F-18s
They only fire in their dreams

On the Indian Ocean across the Red Sea
In the Gulfs of Aden, and Guinea

The mother company back home
Gave us a map of where to roam
They want the oil underground
That makes the world go round and round

On the Indian Ocean across the Red Sea
In the Gulfs of Aden, and Guinea

They want the labor really cheap
That stitches clothes while we all sleep
They want the labor, that’s the prize
That has no right to organize

On the Indian Ocean across the Red Sea
In the Gulfs of Aden, and Guinea

Welcome to the resource wars
In deltas, jungles, deserts, ocean floors
I hear they see us as a threat
They don’t know half of it yet

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from El Pulpo, released October 20, 2017
Drums and Percussion: Rob Chamberlain
Double Bass: Jonathan Henderson
Guitars, Oud, Saz, Keyboards: John Davis
Backing Vocals: Wendy Allen

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John Davis & The Cicadas Durham, North Carolina

John Davis is a musician who works solo, with Folk Implosion, with a backing band called the Cicadas, and with Dennis Callaci. He also works on defending and transforming public education as a teacher - organizer with the Durham Association of Educators. ... more

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