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First I should say that it is not Bruce Springsteen’s mission or responsibility to meet my needs, beliefs, desires, political leanings, ethics or my image of him. I have never met the man. I do not know him beyond his music and celebrity image. Though I have seen him in concert dozens of times since the late 70’s. I was born and raised in New Jersey in the 60’s and 70’s where loving Springsteen was like drinking water. It was essential. And it was well deserved. Few performers have been as inspiring and committed as Springsteen. His concerts are an experience like none other. Truly. Like a true preacher of inspiration and a storyteller of great passion, he can bring a stadium to its feet and fill that world with light and love and power. No small feat.

In addition, his music - particularly his earliest works - are among some of the most powerful songwriting in modern history. For me, GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK is one of the greatest albums ever released, right up there with the most inspired and revered works of Bob Dylan. My interest in Springsteen’s music waned in the 80’s when he got rid of the E-Street Band and embraced what I saw as a much more mainstream and pop-oriented variety of music. It did not speak to me. Again, it’s not Springsteen’s mission to please me or make music that inspires me. He should and does create for himself. He is on his own journey, his own creative path and I respect and admire that, even if the work he was creating in this period was personally less inspiring and appealing to me. I was thrilled when Springsteen reunited with the E-Street Band and I felt he returned to some of the intrepid and inspired songwriting that he had previously explored, only this time with a renewed wisdom and perspective....

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"The United States - like Israel - is a terrorist nation committed to hegemonic military power-grabs that will devastate not only their own countries and populations, but the world. They have, in unison and with the help of much of the Western World, shredded any semblance of international law or humanitarianism. Forget democracy. We have strayed so far from that path that it can no longer even be seen in the rearview mirror. Without a global uprising against these countries and their current politics, administrations and underlying ideologies, freedom, equality and a rules-based order will remain mere phantoms long-dissolved like wafts of vapour into the atmosphere.

The path we are on has been laid out for all to see. Whether or not people are willing to see it is another thing. Historians and responsible journalists have been calling this out for decades, though their pleas and forewarnings have mostly fallen on deaf ears already impaired by the cacophony and dissonance of mainstream corporate media propaganda and the daily rewriting of history..."

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