Fuck World Trade

In late August, one of the coolest bands still around, Leftøver Crack, is going to release their newest cd, "Fuck World Trade". The album is pictured above. How did they get away with a cover like this with such a "shocking" title? Well, first of all they are hella tyte (I definately, agree when they say "fuck world trade"). Secondly, the moved on over from the more and more crap infested 'Hellcat' label over to the hella-tyte label of Alternative Tenticles. LOC's last album's artwork, Mediocre Generica (the album of which was coincidentally released on 9/11/01), was of a school shooting and Hellcat forced them to change the cover. Jello Biafra is very familiar with being hassled over censorship and gladly let the band use whatever artwork they chose for their newest album's cover.
About the subject matte of the cover art... Of course, the band doesn't approve of the killing of innocent people. They are vehemently against it. Originally, "Fuck World Trade" was actually the name of one of their old band's, Choking Victim, songs which came out years before 9/11. When they say it now, their meaning hasn't changed. World trade isn't a bad thing in principal, I mean with it you can get exotic fruits and things, but that's not what they are talking about. They are talking about the IMF, World Bank, and WTO, which are essentially legal American terrorist organizations by the definition of the word. They do much more damage than Osama Bin Laden could ever hope to do. Terrible things happen with this kind of capital warfare, for example, NATO launched the bombing of innocent people in Yugoslavia for 78 straight horrific days. This was under the "liberal" Clinton... and you probably havn't even heard of such a bombing, have you? Well, world trade works as secretly as it can. Still, some people wise up everyonce in awhile to oppose it, such as in the Seattle WTO riot not too many years ago. These organizations simply work like this: Country X needs money, American groups such as these will loan money IF Country X does favors for corporate Amerika; privatize their health care and anything else the organizations want done (it's 111 policies on average that country X will need to change). But, let's not forget the good parts of massive capital world trade. I mean, as Greg Palast pointed out, they did make great strides in the cure for AIDS. Tanzia has a large AIDS infested population of poor people, but the problem is that the silly nation was giving away health care for free! Can you believe that? Well, the World Bank stepped in and gave a helping hand by ordering for their to be no more trade barriers, and instead, deregulation and privatization for the savage country. Needless to say, this helped the country and it's people when the health care industry was privatized and now cost money for the people to get their health care. And wouldn't you know it? It started working right away! A whole 53% of the citizens of Tanzia quit coming in for AIDS treatment!
If you don't learn about this stuff, such album cover's as this will make you "scared" and want to wrap yourself with a flag for protection. But unfortunately, the flag you blanket yourself with has been purposely infected with ignorance; just as the blankets given to the Indians were purposefully infected with smallpox. Both are equally fatal.
But again, if you want to, you can look the other way... But you'll be no better than George W. up there torching innocent people with his (haliburton) capital gas flamethrower.