For genocide to be committed, the perpetrators need political cover along with lots of weapons and money, and the rhetorical groundwork needs to be laid.

Here's the concert from my living room I just did, a week before I head to Scandinavia for the CEASEFIRE TOUR of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

How did so much of what we once thought of as the left become an anti-intellectual, identity-obsessed cult, and how did I become Emmanuel Goldstein?

And then they start shouting at one another afterwards.

The western media helps maintain necessary levels of ignorance in the domains they control, while the rest of the world decries another ongoing genocide, brought to us by settler-colonialism and empire.

Last Friday I had another of my periodic discussions with John Coleman and Paula de Angelis, this one focused on the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

A backgrounder on Palestine, annotated with relevant songs.  More at davidrovics.com/palestine.

The thing about the saying, "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger," is it's often not true.

As we stand by, the Israeli military is obeying its commands to annihilate the Gaza Strip.

Examining the connections between 9/11 and the events of the past weekend in Palestine/Israel is like peeling an onion with infinite layers.