There's somethin' happenin' here, / And what it is, is all too clear (or should be)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

As US cities coast to coast lock down all over again, spectacularly violent protesters 

having brought on busts and beatings by police, and mayors announcing curfews in 

LA, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Portland, 

Rochester, Miami, Salt Lake City and Milwaukee—and as I sit here in Greenwich Village, 

listening to helicopters droning overhead, and police cars shrilling up and down Broadway

—I'm moved to send, again, the link to the video "Battlefield America," about what went 

down in Minneapolis (also under curfew), and a link to a second video, on the very similar 

protests that rocked Baltimore two years ago: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmW7z5ewYME&feature=youtu.be

https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/friends-of-democracy-funded-planned-baltimore-riots/

Things look bleak indeed tonight; but they will be much worse, and for a longer time,

if we don't face the truth, ASAP, about what's happening here—much as it happened 

in Teheran in 1953, Santiago in 1973 (on 9/11), and Kiev in 2014. We need to know that

history—and that that past is prologue.

MCM