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There’s a part of me that believes that the Gates are, in their own way and by their own lights well-meaning, but also extremely blinkered and prey as well to charlatans. After all, the more successful the individual, the more … Continue reading →

Haven’t seen anyone in the U.S. government do it better–and few nearly as well–as Representative Gwen Moore of Wisconsin. She’s sick of the criminalization of poverty in this country, and the way that tax breaks for the rich somehow go … Continue reading →

His charming one-man performance in “Fully Committed” at the 1903 Lyceum Theatre is unplugged and so much the better for it.  Bravo for not turning it into television!

The NY Phil annual free Memorial Day concert at St John began with a slow walking New Orleans funeral dirge up the main aisle led by Wynton Marsalis in honor of Maestro Masur. Masur, an East German, defused a confrontation … Continue reading →

Last Sunday afternoon, I saw the closing performance of David Hare’s The Judas Kiss at BAM’s Harvey theater. At the very end, when Oscar Wilde intones his own apotheosis over swelling musical strains, I thought that Rupert Everett’s voice might … Continue reading →

Q: How improper was AP’s intervention into the primary process this week? Writing for Truthout, Williams Rivers Pitt characterizes it “as undemocratic an act as I have ever witnessed after Bush v. Gore and the shenanigans in Ohio in 2004, … Continue reading →

As a rule our “mainstream” media keep us as ignorant as possible about the heinous civilian casualties of our endless wars, but in the Washington Post Greg Jaffe and Loveday Morris describe the “high toll of Obama’s low-cost wars.”

Richard North Patterson at Huffington Post flails their elevation of Trump and tenacious attempt to normalize an obviously deeply disturbed personality. “They have countenanced lie upon lie; recast his disturbed behavior as strategic genius; marveled at the immunity from his … Continue reading →

Democratic party establishment is a blinkered, sclerotic, bought-and-paid-for excuse for a political leadership, without any demonstrated commitment to solving the catastrophic problems now besetting the U.S.–but with a real gift for gab about how much it cares. It sold its … Continue reading →

You knew when the “mainstream” “news” media is launching one of its hit jobs because of the co-ordination, rather similar to the way Stalin and the front page of Pravda functioned together. Definitely, truly anti-democratic, anti-journalistic. The latest shameful episode … Continue reading →