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Covid Response at Five Years: Introduction
Covid Response at Five Years: Introduction Brownstone Institute | February 27, 2025 This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot wrote in 1925. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” Ninety-five years later, the pre-Covid world ended with a nationwide sigh of submission. Democrats remained silent as government mandates transferred trillions of dollars from the working class to tech oligarchs. Republicans dithered as states criminalized church attendance.
Media Panic Over Measles Distracts From Real Threats to Kids’ Health and Safety
Media Panic Over Measles Distracts From Real Threats to Kids’ Health and Safety By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender | February 27, 2025 Measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, with one new case reported in Kentucky and two in New Jersey, are fueling media stories that the U.S. is poised for an epidemic.
How UK counter-terror police colluded with Zionists to detain me after Beirut trip
How UK counter-terror police colluded with Zionists to detain me after Beirut trip By David Miller – Press TV – February 27, 2025 At 21.32 local time on the evening of Monday, 24 February, I stepped off a plane from Istanbul to Heathrow and into the terminal building. In front of me were a wide circle of people evidently waiting for someone, perhaps for a number of passengers. I knew right away one of them was me.
Microsoft employees removed from town hall for protesting AI contracts with Israeli military
Microsoft employees removed from town hall for protesting AI contracts with Israeli military MEMO | February 27, 2025 Five Microsoft employees were removed during a company town hall meeting after staging a protest against the company’s contracts supplying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing services to the Israeli occupation military.
US official vows to imprison pro-Palestine protesters for years
US official vows to imprison pro-Palestine protesters for years Press TV – February 27, 2025 An official with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) says student protesters who took part in pro-Palestine protests could face years in prison. Leo Terrell, head of the DOJ task force on anti-Semitism, announced his plans for lengthy prison punishments for those who protested against Israel during its genocide in Gaza.
Website Publishes List of Canadian Israelis who Served in the IOF
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Hundreds of Palestinians freed from Israeli jails after weeklong hold up
Hundreds of Palestinians freed from Israeli jails after weeklong hold up The Cradle | February 27, 2025 Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were let out from Israel’s prisons early on 27 February in exchange for the handover of the bodies of four Israeli captives who were held in Gaza, as part of the seventh and final round of exchanges for phase one of the ceasefire.
New US sanctions on Russia take effect
New US sanctions on Russia take effect RT | February 27, 2025 A US ban on providing petroleum services to Russia officially took effect on Thursday, in the latest round of sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. The restrictions on the operations of American companies in Russia are part of sanctions targeting the country’s oil production and exports, which was approved by the US Treasury Department in conjunction with the UK on January 10.
Trump declines to comment on protecting Taiwan island, expresses welcome for Chinese investment in Cabinet meeting
Trump declines to comment on protecting Taiwan island, expresses welcome for Chinese investment in Cabinet meeting Global Times | February 27, 2025 During his first official Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump refused to comment when asked by a reporter’s question about whether “the US would allow China to take control of Taiwan by force,” Instead, he responded by expressing his desire for Chinese investment in the US, Reuters reported.
‘Incompetent cowards’ in Brussels could have prevented Trump tariffs, claims Hungarian FM
‘Incompetent cowards’ in Brussels could have prevented Trump tariffs, claims Hungarian FM By Thomas Brooke | Remix News | February 27, 2025 Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has launched a scathing attack on the European Union’s leadership following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of an impending 25 percent tariff on European imports.
Memories of Old Love, by Typical Girls
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How much time it is between you and me?, by perila
“Perila is making some of the most head-spinning ambient music out there right now.” — Pitchfork Perila, the moniker of Berlin-based electronic musician Aleksandra Zakharenko, announces her debut album, How Much Time it is Between You and Me?, out June 25th on Smalltown Supersound, and today presents its lead single, “Fallin Into Space,” a track full of levitating synth and pulses of organic noise.
Boss Moves 2: Welcome Back, by Luca Lozano
Streaming + Download Pre-order of Boss Moves 2: Welcome Back. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card releases June 4, 2021 €12 Record/Vinyl 2x 140g vinyl in white sleeve with gold stickers, includes digital files Includes digital pre-order of Boss Moves 2: Welcome Back.
Helical Birth, by Terran Aurora
[Helical Birth is compositionally finished, but I hope one day it may receive a more professional mixing and mastering, and a physical release of some sort. Please get in touch if you have any leads or interest in collaborating on this.] Swaddling sounds that resemble organ, accordion, wind, and more ethereal things, 'Helical Birth' is the result of sudden musical midwifery.
The Bath | Emma Houton | emma houton
supported by / Record/Vinyl + Digital Album Deluxe 12" cream & blue twist on heavyweight vinyl 180 Includes unlimited streaming of The Bath via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 3 days Purchasable with gift card £20 Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
An Echo In Her Skin, by JARR
Pre-orders of "An Echo In Her Skin" are available now. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released. Releases June 11, 2021 The album will also be available on CD. This includes a 4-panel digi-sleeve artwork with booklet.
for the first and last, by Yellow6
about Yellow6 Leicester, UK Yellow6 is the solo project of British guitarist Jon Attwood. Yellow6 has at times been described as post-rock, minimalist, electronica, ambient… the reality is that Yellow6 has some similarity with each of those genres but is not so easily definable, using aspects of drone, repetition, melody, harmony, noise and silence to create absorbing soundscapes to drift off into. ... more
Acknowledgment, by Mark Trecka
Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card $7 Record/Vinyl + Digital Album All pre-orders will come with limited edition poster designed by Mark Trecka and Will Brady + Insert + DL Code. Includes unlimited streaming of Acknowledgment via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The Nature Scam - Los Angeles Review of Books
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 IN A PIECE for the winter issue of Commune magazine, Madeline Lane-McKinley looked at a viral story about wombats rescuing hordes of animals from the wildfires ravaging the Austalian Outback.
Prison Visitation in the Era of COVID-19
Roberta last saw her fiancé, Reggie, on March 13 during her regular weekly visit to Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, where Reggie has been incarcerated for nearly 14 years. (The names of sources in this piece have been changed to protect their privacy.) At that visit, Reggie told Roberta that he suspected the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) was planning to suspend visits in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following day, DOCCS did just that.
Do More Than No Harm: On Judith Butler’s “The Force of Nonviolence”
JULY 17, 2020 ONE MORNING in mid-April, in the town of Beacon, New York, word spread about the digging of several fresh graves with unmarked headstones in the Fishkill Correctional Facility cemetery. A local prisoner advocacy group cobbled together a press release highlighting the burials — and their likely relationship to COVID-19.
I Know This Much Is True (Music From The HBO Series), by Harold Budd
Based on the bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, and starring Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True follows Dominick Birdsey as he struggles to care for his twin brother, Thomas, while discovering the truth about his own family history.
Landscape Architecture, by CV & JAB
/ Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card $8 Record/Vinyl + Digital Album First edition, pressing of 375 copies on black vinyl. **SHIPPING FROM ATHENS, GREECE IN EARLY AUGUST** **UK DISTRO: BOOMKAT** **US DISTRO: VIRTUAL LABEL** Pressed in the Netherlands. Includes unlimited streaming of Landscape Architecture via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The Carceral Invasion: On Brett Story’s “Prison Land”
OCTOBER 19, 2019 THE SPREAD OF CONSPIRACY theories about invasion by one “other” or another has whipped sections of American society into a well-armed frenzy. But like most conspiracy theories, these concerns distract from much more evident threats.
White and Native Protests: A Study in Inequality
AUGUST 28, 2019 THE BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS set their famous Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight this January, indicating that humankind is as close to terminal disaster as we have ever been. They named the usual suspects: climate change and the threat of nuclear war. But as Noam Chomsky explained recently in an interview with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, there was a new culprit added to the list of threats to existence: the undermining of democracy.
The United States’s Sacred Gun Problem
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS after the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church shooting, Texas State Representative Jason Villalba went on NPR’s Morning Edition to talk about his plan to “bring together the smartest people in Texas” on the issue of gun control.
On Longing, Listening, and Levity: Lauren Levin Interviews Alli Warren
This is the second half of a two-part conversation between Alli Warren and Lauren Levin. The first part can be found here. I FIRST MET Alli Warren through her work, specifically the chapbook Cousins, published by Gina Myers’s Lame House Press series. I remember (this is off the top of my head, so might be wrong, but feels right) a striking blue-and-orange cover. And the way the title so perfectly reflected the work within: deeply striving for connection, but also witty, a little sly, off-kilter.
Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on
For a writer like Didion, with such a mastery of language, such a defined style, “Hello, there” might seem an unlikely object of focus. It is, in a word, empty. But it is just that emptiness that allows for Didion’s fawning. “‘Hello, there,’” she writes, as if repeating it to herself. “Where did he come from, before the tall grass?
The Implication of a Fence: Part One - An Early Form of Surveillance
In October, 2015, New Mexico-based interdisciplinary arts collective, Postcommodity, executed the largest binational land art installation in history.
Abandon Boundaries, by Typical Girls
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In The Mist, by Harold Budd
supported by Greg Johnson First listen, right off the bat, this reminds me of “The Pearl” (from 1984, with Eno, my favorite ambient music ever) more than any other album he’s done. / Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card $10 Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album Includes unlimited streaming of In The Mist via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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