After 27 rounds of annual talks that amount to just a bunch of corporate hot air, we're hopefully that much closer to the tipping point when people give up on relying on the capitalists to save us.

It's been an especially farcical week on Planet Earth.

While they're nursing the wounds caused by shooting themselves in their own feet so much, I'm sure some of them are well aware that if they hadn't spent the past 50 years stabbing the working class in the back, the working class might support their party.

The written version of this rant appears in both the physical and online versions of Slingshot #136.  Slingshot is a wonderful anarchist newspaper going strong since the 1980's, and they put out a fabulous thing called the Slingshot Organizer -- the 2023 edition is available now!  slingshotcollective.org

Some reflections on what Scandinavia has that so many other places lack, after spending most of October on tour in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.  You can also find this in written form at davidrovics.com/thisweek.

Some thoughts on the way the liberal press likes to frame things when it comes to the arts, which entirely involves the rearrangement of deck chairs on a sinking ship.  (Published in written form in Counterpunch earlier in October, I was on tour and didn't have a chance to make the podcast version til now.)

Today's Last Saturday concert from my living room, as it was livestreamed at 2 pm Pacific Time.

Green Cities is a billion-dollar Portland-based corporation that is intent on gentrifying the world as rapidly as possible, making as much money as possible, with no interest whatsoever in the welfare of their tenants who can't keep up with Green Cities' massive rent increases, made possible by our broken system.

Here's the podcast version of the livestreamed concert from my living room I gave for the internet earlier today.  There were a couple brief interruptions in the feed, but I have it here as it happened live, unedited.

With the demise of the British queen I found myself obsessively reading everything I could find about the time she gave an award to the Australian monarchist who dissolved Gough Whitlam's administration in 1975.