Five years - Billy Bragg's "Price of Oil"

Two political posts in two days. Apologies to those who come here for the science but these are the issues getting my attention and energy this week.

Billy Bragg is a special guy in my life and this song from 2002 was particularly prescient.

In memory of those lost in the 11 September attacks, the Spanish 11 March bombings, the thousands of allied forces and Iraqi people dead and injured, and all around the world whose needs have gone unmet in exchange for financing an unguided and unnecessary war. . .

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