Guns, germs and steel
And missionary zeal
Once raised our flag
In foreign fields.
Then the baton passed to banks,
Then MTV,
Now they tell people
That they can be free.
The new game in town,
The brand new vision,
Dupe people into thinking
They make the decisions.
No need to fox them
With broadcast Television,
Sow seeds in the feeds
And reap the fruits of division.
Studied terror and chaos,
Now cold cowards envision
A new type of conquest,
Carcino-colonialism.
II.
A complex recipe
Take a culture
And bombard it with free radicals
Till they corrupt the machinery
Connect the cells and feed them energy
Nourish with blood, till the host society
Multiplies tumour cells indefinitely.
Start with the lethargic,
Sclerotically corrupt
Despot the world forgot.
Mix fictitious avatars, amateur journalists
Food prices, camera phones
And a call to resist.
Inflate.
Serve on web space, backed by hackers
Fuel hate
Till there are visible cracks
Add special ops, sanctions and air drops,
A consensus course
For diplomats to plot.
Level the playing field
Wait,
Till flavours of global hegemony permeate.
Garnish with a representation of Democracy
Reserve a complicit military
For reasons of economy
Slake the thirst of your company
With tap broke state.
III.
Carcino-colonialism.
A virulent mutation of the imperial dream
Bastard offspring of Howard Dein's method
And Donald Rumsfeld's schemes.
So there's a Twitter account
For every thirty Tunisians
And US Air Force veterans
Blog as arrested
Damascus lesbians.
Masked men in Misrata
Are still going out after
Dark for closed courts
While NATO pumps Chinese investments
In East Libyan ports.
Now we're told of Friday Prayers in Homs
Played the thud of heavy guns
Told to worry about Iran
Not where free Syrian arms come from
Not who's connecting the comms.
As wrong, as it is murky
Slice the pie for the strong
And they might not find four and twenty
Thanks giving Turkeys.
IV.
The end of Bo Xilai days
Were always going to play
Out in public one way
Or the other.
Now it couldn't be easier
To circumvent state media
Once you've got a police chief,
Debriefed about the beef in the fiefdom
Put the facts in bytes
To they release or do you leak them.
There's a new game in Town
I hope everyone's listened
Don't go missing the tricks
Of Carcino-colonialism.
