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This Week with David Rovics

44 children were killed by a US-made bomb dropped on a bus in a crowded market in Yemen by the Saudi Air Force.

Today in Yemen

Senator John McCain is dead.  Speak good of the dead.  Good -- he's dead.

John McCain

No, not Shakespeare -- Hamlet, North Carolina.  September 3rd, 1991.

Remembering Hamlet

AP is reporting several of the children separated from their parents have been sexually abused in captiviity.  Unfortunately, sexually abusing children after separating them from their parents is as American as apple pie.

Child Separations

The CIA-backed military coup in Chile on September 11th, 1973 resulted in thousands killed and tortured over the course of a brutal dictatorship that began that day.  It also gave rise to some impressive acts of solidarity.  In Scotland, workers at the factory that repaired all the engines for the entire Chilean Air Force refused to touch a fascist engine.  For a time, it was revealed recently, the entire Chilean Air Force was grounded as a result.

September 11th, 1973

The Global Financial Crisis began in earnest 10 years ago this week, and the first of the series of global protests that began with a protest in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan on this date in 2011.  I was there.

Remembering Occupy Wall Street

If most white supremacists in the US were aware of their own family histories, they probably wouldn't be white supremacists.

Refugees In The Family

A 27-year-old journalist named Steffen Meyn fell to his death last Wednesday at Hambach Forest in Germany.  I have visited the forest, the forest protectors, the neighborhood, and the gigantic, open-pit coal mine that dominates the area on many occasions.

Death in Hambach Forest

Last night I was kicked out of a building for the first time in my 51 years.  It happened in Santa Cruz, California.

If You're Going to Santa Cruz

Like many other people, I've been fairly transfixed by recent Senate hearings.  #IBelieveHer

Behind Closed Doors

Near a fence that the western press refers to as a border, there has been a massacre of unarmed civilians carried out by heavily-armed soldiers most every Friday since last March.

Land Day Every Day

The government of Australia has ordered MSF doctors to leave Nauru, so the refugees there who are committing suicide will commit suicide some more.

Death In Detention

It's well-known among those who follow the international press that the far right is growing in Europe.  What's less well-known, for some reason, is that the left is growing, too.  And nowhere is that more evident than in England.

The Corbyn Factor

Among the latest marginalized groups to be targeted by the Trump administration is the trans community.

Boys and Girls

One hundred years ago this week, the "Great War" ended.  Every corner of the world is still living with the fallout.  Happy Veterans Day, or Armistice Day, depending.

Armistice Day Centennial

When daily life in a nation is best described as a constant series of predictable and preventable catastrophes that just keep on happening anyway, this nation is, by definition, a failed state.

Failed States of America

We have seen the future of a world run by real estate speculators, property developers and transnational corporations -- it is the apocalypse.

Paradise Lost

The US is an extremely divided society.  One of its many divisions is that between landlords and renters.

Just A Renter

In an age of Camp Fires and Paradise lost, let's remember Tvindkraft, the first industrial-scale windmill.

Windmills and Camp Fires

The last time a leaderless movement against plutocracy arose in France was 1848. It swept across Europe and ultimately left it radically transformed, with global repercussions.

1848 and the Yellow Vests

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