There are 5 US corporations that are responsible for so much of the killing. "The War Machine" originally appears on the David Rovics album, In Our Dreams, available on a streaming platform near you.
To which lyric I will respectfully attach "War Profits Litany" by Allen Ginsberg:
These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war
nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand eighty Hebraic
These are the Corporations who have profited by merchandising skinburning phosphorous or shells fragmented to thousands of fleshpiercing needles
and here listed money millions gained by each combine for manufacture
and here are gains numbered, index'd swelling a decade, set in order,
here named the Fathers in office in these industries, telephones directing finance,
names of directors, makers of fates, and the names of the stockholders of these destined Aggregates,
and here are the names of their ambassadors to the Capital, representatives to legislature, those who sit drinking in hotel lobbies to persuade,
and separate listed, those who drop Amphetamine with military, gossip, argue, and persuade
suggesting policy naming language proposing strategy, this done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon, consultants to military, paid by their industry:
and these are the names of the generals & captains military, who know thus work for war goods manufacturers;
and above these, listed, the names of the banks, combines, investment trusts that control these industries:
and these are the names of the newspapers owned by these banks
and these are the names of the airstations owned by these combines;
and these are the numbers of thousands of citizens employed by these businesses named;
and the beginning of this accounting is 1958 and the end 1968, that static be contained in orderly mind, coherent and definite,
and the first form of this litany begun first day December 1967 furthers this poem of these States.
"Collected Poems 1947 - 1997" / Allen Ginsberg (Harper Collins), p. 494
[NOTE: There is still work to be done to fill in the actual names in these catalogue headings listed by the poet in his litany.]
To which lyric I will respectfully attach "War Profits Litany" by Allen Ginsberg:
These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war
nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand eighty Hebraic
These are the Corporations who have profited by merchandising skinburning phosphorous or shells fragmented to thousands of fleshpiercing needles
and here listed money millions gained by each combine for manufacture
and here are gains numbered, index'd swelling a decade, set in order,
here named the Fathers in office in these industries, telephones directing finance,
names of directors, makers of fates, and the names of the stockholders of these destined Aggregates,
and here are the names of their ambassadors to the Capital, representatives to legislature, those who sit drinking in hotel lobbies to persuade,
and separate listed, those who drop Amphetamine with military, gossip, argue, and persuade
suggesting policy naming language proposing strategy, this done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon, consultants to military, paid by their industry:
and these are the names of the generals & captains military, who know thus work for war goods manufacturers;
and above these, listed, the names of the banks, combines, investment trusts that control these industries:
and these are the names of the newspapers owned by these banks
and these are the names of the airstations owned by these combines;
and these are the numbers of thousands of citizens employed by these businesses named;
and the beginning of this accounting is 1958 and the end 1968, that static be contained in orderly mind, coherent and definite,
and the first form of this litany begun first day December 1967 furthers this poem of these States.
"Collected Poems 1947 - 1997" / Allen Ginsberg (Harper Collins), p. 494
[NOTE: There is still work to be done to fill in the actual names in these catalogue headings listed by the poet in his litany.]