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Albert Heath 1935-2024

Birthday boy

Johann Sebastian's

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Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi on the TikTok bill that just passed the House.

“It’s not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe…a winner. A winner.” pic.twitter.com/faTlxgPMGN

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 13, 2024

Eric White,

The Secret Square (HOLLYWOOD SQUARES), 2024

Oil on canvas

182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in

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White's painting hangs at 54 White til March 30th.

Lyn Hejinian 1941-2024

 

 

In the mass of my hallucination soaked 

this international ellipsis 

the sky, to speak 

 

most intimately when speaking 

of birds, is clumsy 

Ellipsis is strong, and I can't absorb it 

 

with love 

(the selfishness of continuity) 

of the uncut 

 

(The Person, 1994)

 

(I regard this to be an opportune time to upload the Guelph, Ontario Electric Ascension perf with Larry Ochs on tenor, which I've been meaning to do) 

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Aaron Bushnell 1998-2024

The last walk of Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old member of the US Air Force who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington in protest against US involvement in Israel's genocide in Gaza.https://t.co/FwAAH0GJ8B

— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) February 26, 2024

 

 

(Chris Hedges memorial)

Damo Suzuki 1950-2024

Tony Cedras 1952-2024

on the harmonium and accordian here

 

John Pilger 1939-2023

 

(John Rees obituary)

 

(filmography with additional video links)

 

The Quiet Mutiny (1970)  (His first.. "the first documentary to show the open rebellion within the drafted ranks of the US military [in Vietnam] that led to the withdrawal of the land army in 1973. "When I flew to New York and showed it to Mike Wallace the star reporter of CBS 60 Minutes he agreed. "Real shame we can't show it here"" Pilger said in an interview with the New Statesman.")

 

The Most Powerful Politician in America (1974) (George Wallace) 

Zap! The Weapon is Food (1976) (Kissinger’s policy of refusing aid to countries that do not support his government in the United Nations and the existence of a “Zap Office” specially set up in the State Department to monitor voting patterns...  American Secretary of Agriculture Dr Earl Butts says that he is “not very sympathetic with the food needs of a nation where their governments and their leaders are constantly demeaning the United States”.)

 

Do You Remember Vietnam? (1978) 

 

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)

 

The Mexicans (1980) (Stark assessment of the Mexican economy during the CIA-backed administration of the PRI's José López Portillo)

 

The Search for Truth in Wartime (1983) 

 

Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive (1983)

 

The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1985) 

 

Japan Behind the Mask (1987) 

 

War By Other Means (1992) (Third World debt)

 

Death of a Nation: The East Timor Conspiracy (1994) 

 

Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)  

 

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000) (Effects of sanctions) 

 

The New Rulers of the World (2001) (IMF, World Bank, WTO) 

 

Palestine is Still the Issue (2002)  (Updated with Ilan Pappé conversations)  

 

Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War of Terror (2003)

 

Stealing a Nation (2004)  (Britain's removal of the Chagossian peoples from the Chagos Islands)  

 

Latin America: The War on Democracy (2007) 

 

The War You Don't See (2010)  (War propaganda)

 

Utopia (2013) (Indigenous Australians)

 

The Coming War on China (2016) 

 

"The Coming War - It's Time to Speak Up" (2023 editorial):  "Post-modernism is in charge now.. Democracy is notional now; there is the all-powerful elite of the corporation merged with the state and the demands of “identity.”.. The rise of fascism in Europe is uncontroversial..."

Prabha Atre 1932-2024

Les McCann 1935-2023