Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Posts by David Stubbs
The "buffer zone" thing is so insidious. Having established a buffer zone, they then have to establish another buffer zone to protect the previous buffer zone. And so on. And so the expansion goes.
Dave Mathews in a keffiyeh holding up signs that say STOP THE GENOCIDE and STOP KILLING CHILDREN at a concert
This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!
It's when it switches to the match report . . .
When Jean-Paul's oldest friend dies, he has to return to Paris - with dangerous consequences.
That's GET SARTRE, ITV 2 at 7.30pm.
He spoke the truth.
Coventry City promoted to the Premier League. Glad for one man - the club paid tribute to him thus.
Steve Race, writing for MM back then was certainly very anti-rock'n'roll and wrote a piece deploring hoodlums trampling flowerbeds outside cinemas, so excited were they by "Rock Around The Clock".
This was one of the very first records I acquired.
this is really extraordinary and it contains all of those things about guitar delta blues that seemed to be missed especially by white imitators: the approach to meter is as weird and complex as j dilla, and the approach to harmony so divorced from western hegemony as to sound avant garde
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years.
Gout Gout, 18, breaks Usain Bolt's under-18 200m record with 19.67 seconds - Australian sprinter from Brisbane is the new fastest teen on Earth
There's a Michael Jackson film? Michael? Coming out soon? Followed by what? Gary? Jimmy?
Ah, wow!
The guy is younger than me.
for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺
I was a fan of High Llamas and have met Sean a few times.
Thanks! I will go back and give it another read.
Haha I was a cruel boy. It wasn't my thing at the time for sure and I made that emphatically clear but I don't have the heart for that sort of review in my old age.
He was right.
Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.
Did wonderfully for the Arse.
Weirdly, that brightened up my footballing day. He's such an exciting talent.
Sometimes I wish I didn't like football. Like, practically all the time at the moment.
i am so absolutely not a fan of Bruce Springsteen's music. But so much an admirer of Bruce Springsteen. Doing the right thing.
Israel's had a fascist culture for a long time, but many people have chosen not to notice.
Russell Tribunal 2014 - 24/09
Israeli-Canadian David Sheen talks incitement for Genocide in Israeli society discourse during Operation Protective edge.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNF...
Further evidence to bolster my theory that all rock stars are failed music journalists. A young Morrissey castigates Depeche Mode, "four coiffured Barry White's (sic) (a nauseating version)".
Love it, watched it many times.
Absolutely. They so wanted the story about him being the penalty hero. But what a cocky little shit he clearly was.