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People marvel at the idiocy of these Nobel awards, but there’s method in the madness, since in the end they train people to accept without demur or protest absurdity as part and parcel of the human condition, which they should accept as representing the considered opinion of rational men, albeit Norwegian. It’s a twist on the Alger myth, inspiring to youth: you too can get to murder Filipinos, or Palestinians, or  Vietnamese or Afghans  and still  win a Peace Prize. That’s the audacity of hope at full stretch. Читать дальше...

A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in America shot up an astounding 18%, bringing the number of Americans without a home to 770,000. Of course, this number is probably a distinct underestimation as it is difficult to properly include the souls out there without reliable housing, or of course those who are still sheltered, but barely existing on a shoestring, juggling numerous jobs and falling behind daily. Читать дальше...

It’s always dramatic when you leave London for a spell in the English countryside. In the English countryside, people still say hello. Trees are tall and knowing. The old as well as young work the shops. A pothole becomes a talking point. History, especially Druid or Roman, never seems far away. In the English countryside, More

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, originally a four-hour film, is still a very long 151-minute experiential and observational film by Johan Grimonprez. In my view, the filmmaker oversimplified and at times fabricated the intersections of US Civil Rights, jazz, literature, Cold War diplomacy, and the complicated domestic politics of Congo to focus on decolonization and the More

Ryan Hutson of Humboldt Freelance Reporting is a Freelance Journalist based in Humboldt County, California. You can find Ryan’s reporting at Kymkemp.com with Redheaded Blackbelt News,  KMUD Radio, and at PBS’s KEET-13 TV. More

“If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.” — Ralph Nader Jimmy Carter died over the weekend. As one would expect, there’s been loads of corporate media hype about “Jimmy Carter, the liberal saint.” Though all one needs to do is look More

Happy Slappy Mother-Effing 2025. Will anyone here get out alive? I’ll take my chances… 2024 having been such a bust (and not the good kind) of a year, an awful spin cycle of sorrow and fear, un-bonoboneopuritanism, Artificial Ignorance censoring and killing us, sadistic injustice, raging extortion, medical murders, the rich enriching the rich, war More

Call him a misguided hero or villain, but the man who killed the United Healthcare CEO struck a nerve, exposing a deep rage shared by many Americans across the political spectrum — anger at an industry that earns obscene profits from the suffering of others. His chilling act shifted the national conversation from immigration to More

NEW RELEASES 1) Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion (ECM) 2) Julian Lage, Speak to Me  (Blue Note) 3) Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers,  Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens  (Red Hook) 4) Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) 5) Matthew Shipp Trio,  New Concepts in More

Journalist and writer Paulo Carneiro, a friend from our long youth, invited me by email to write about “I’m still here”. And in this way I introduce myself below. The film’s excellences have layers that, when speaking about them, may seem like timid restrictions on the part of this author. In the first of them, More