The latest reports from Syria are horrifying. In the few months following the collapse of the Assad government, international coverage of Syria has largely disappeared. Which meant either that nothing much was happening (unlikely): or that international media largely preferred
There’s no question that the Ukraine situation is a quagmire. And the series of arrangements, miscalculations, provocations and maneuvers that have led to this impasse is ultimately a saga of manipulation and hypocrisy. And that it’s not even clear
It seems like the answer is simply yes. How else to explain things like the
Just when you might think it couldn’t get any more absurd or disgusting. Just when
This one is even less convincing than previous efforts. In fact, this one is extremely lazy. You would, at this point,
It was hailed as an immediate success of the Great Trump in his new presidency. After more than a year of
The other night, a convicted felon and a war criminal sat beside each other to answer questions from journalists. The longtime allies
Everything about this latest change in presidency in the US has felt slightly off. Amid everything else that drew attention around the
It was really sad hearing the news that legendary filmmaker and artist David Lynch had passed away. He has been not only
It has become increasingly evident in the last several years that if the full truth about possible child abuse among the British Establishment (and beyond) ever comes out, we could witness the complete collapse of the Establishment. Indeed, other Establishments may follow, as the (alleged) cover-up appears to stretch beyond
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I’ve been pondering this for some time; and have tried to somewhat lay out the subject as best as I can here in this article. This is something of a thought-experiment; trying to track the various strands of consequences from a single event, but moreover, trying to understand why that
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With the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, it freshly occured to me that the harrowing subject of My Lai actually also sheds some light on the reality of the decline in real journalism in the modern age. I would assert that you can track the decline in the
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If you haven’t seen the music videos for ‘Blackstar’ or
So, this is about two very different, though technically similar,
In this article, I want to square in on why
It’s all become very strange. And somewhat inscrutable. When a
April 30th marked 70 years to the day since Adolf
In anticipation of release of the latest Star Wars film
I don’t quite get some of the online hate for
The mysterious death of movie legend Natalie Wood might be
There’s nothing in all creation more exciting than the words
A diary kept by the late actor Heath Ledger while he
So the Chris Cornell tribute concert took place on Wednesday
It so happens that so many of the albums made
The news that broke yesterday that Mark Lanegan had died
So, I went back and forth for a few days
A fair amount of new music comes my way on
