Watch Anohni’s New “Crisis” Video
Anohni has shared a new video for her HOPELESSNESS track “Crisis.” The video is an intimate portrait of New York performer Storm Lever, who mouths along to the song before breaking down in tears. Watch it below.
In a statement with the video, Anohni wrote:
De-escalation cannot occur until we truly account for what the United States has done.
I wanted to model what that might look like on a personal level as an American citizen.
There is an unspoken sense that the atrocities our country has committed in the Middle East are too grave to really acknowledge or account for.
And yet for peace to really take hold, there is no other road forward.
The press release also states:
ANOHNI wrestles with her complicity as an American citizen and taxpayer and in relation to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. “Crisis” is her version of America’s un-issued Chilcot report. The lyrics of “Crisis” inventory some of the ways in which the U.S. has exacerbated and helped to provoke the current global “Crisis”:
1. Declaring the Iraq war under the false premise that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction
2. Causing the deaths of more than half a million Iraqis
3. Imprisoning suspects, many of whom were innocent, indefinitely in offshore secret prisons
4. Torturing and killing suspects under the Bush administration
5. Depriving suspects of human rights and habeas corpus
6. Switching tactics under Obama’s administration and using drones to execute suspects and bystanders across the Middle East and beyond
7. Imprisoning whistleblowers under Obama’s administration for having the moral courage to identify US criminality
8. Filling corporate pockets with federal monies syphoned for war, weaponry and “reconstruction”
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