{"id":12246,"date":"2014-03-09T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2014-03-09T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:04:29","slug":"america-how-it-works-by-heathcote-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/03\/america-how-it-works-by-heathcote-williams.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;America: How It Works&#8217; by Heathcote Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fierce dissidence of Williams&#8217;s polemical poetry is as radical as Shelley\u2019s. &#8220;America: How It Works&#8221; bears witness to the monster within &#8220;the most dangerous country in world history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UweW91yYCIs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UweW91yYCIs\">Words by Heathcote Williams. Narration and montage by Alan Cox.<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The business of America is business,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s number one business is war.<br \/>\nIt uses Hollywood to peddle its values<br \/>\nTo turn the world into its whore.<\/p>\n<p>But few of its citizens have the guts to say boo.<br \/>\nOtherwise they&#8217;d be refusing to pay taxes.<br \/>\nSo, like their own media, they back war after war,<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re turning the world into ashes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QG7fSC2cKQc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QG7fSC2cKQc\">Words by Heathcote Williams. Narration and montage by Alan Cox.<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fierce dissidence of Williams&#8217;s polemical poetry is as radical as Shelley\u2019s. &#8220;America: How It Works&#8221; bears witness to the monster within &#8220;the most dangerous country in world history.&#8221; Words by Heathcote Williams. Narration and montage by Alan Cox. The business of America is business, And it&#8217;s number one business is war. It uses Hollywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literature","7":"category-media","8":"category-political-culture","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}