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CLEARCUTTING MANHATTAN

As I follow my customary movement patterns throughout the city, as well as divert into neighborhoods I don’t visit that often, I’m photographing all the wonderful nineteenth-century buildings I see being leveled or about to be leveled in the neighborhood-and-history … Continue reading →

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WELCOME TO TRUMP’S AMERICA

A nonstop barrage of violence, hatred and fear, endorsed both explicitly and covertly by the aspiring dictator in the Oval Office. Trump’s response to every spasm of violence occasioned by his inflammatory rhetoric is to call for more guns, more … Continue reading →

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TUCKER CARLSON KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE’S DOING

On a nightly basis, Carlson is attacking America, undermining American democracy and national unity. So when he face plants about why, oh, why, the country is so divided, it’s time to expose his Goebbelsian methodology. Shame on S & S … Continue reading →

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When I mention the “Kirov’s” current Raymonda performances, yes I know that they re now the Mariinsky once again, but they were Kirov during the 1950s when Konstantin Sergeyev’s somewhat revised Raymonda premiered in St. Petersburg (yes, I know that … Continue reading →

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RAYMONDA SPEAKS CLEARLY

You know how, when you see the Kirov’s Raymonda–last performed here in Washington, D.C. in 2016– it looks very authentic, the least subject to Soviet- era revision of all the nineteenth-century repertory? I mean, apart from the Vikharev reconstructions. Well, … Continue reading →

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ANOTHER REASON BIDEN WON’T BE THE NOMINEE

You can’t make this stuff up.  Joe Biden and Michelle Obama are actually participating in the normalization of George W. Bush’s presidency by presenting him with a freedom medal. In the Nation, Steven W. Thrasher is aghast at the foolishness … Continue reading →

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OUTRIGHT PARTISAN RACKETEERING FROM A THOROUGHLY CORRUPTED SUPREME COURT

The right-wing Supreme Court majority begins, with Wilbur Ross, to shield the Trump would-be dictatorship from any legal accountability.

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DID I MISS SOMETHING?

The fact that the Democrats don’t seem to be campaigning against Trump’s devastation of the air we breathe, the soil we grow our food in, and the water that nourishes those crops and our own internal ecosystems, is yet another … Continue reading →

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JARED’S THING FOR MEN IN KEFFIYEHS

who have lots and lots of family money to throw around. Is analyzed by Chris Hedges at Truth Dig as part of an analysis of the larger sociopathology of the uber-rich.

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TRUMP’S GESTURAL LANGUAGE

One part drag queen, one part carny barker, and one part walrus. What have we-the- people gotten ourselves into?

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