DEVELOPMENT CRISIS

As global standards of living increase
Why do the tropics always suffer?
In perpetual violent conflict
In poverty and corruption
All greener dreams of peace mangled
By centuries of occupation

Pillage to the ends of extraction
Strongmen will rise in the wake
Sub-contract to the ends of inflation
Counterinsurgency fixes fate

In dirty wars, failed states
Paramilitary terror
The third world as frontier
For the Pentagon to ponder
Crisis

Feed the vicious, destabilize
Sell them all thеir weapons
Submission is the law
You eithеr comply or die, die, die, die

By torture, by deprivation
Or by neglect
Chemical spills, famines, factory fires
Disaster strikes at any time

Export process, narrow progress
Inequality rising
Submission is the law
You either comply or die, die, die, die