From top to bottom, Americans can virtue-signal like nobody's business. But material conditions of most of society in the US indicate a total failure of governance.توسط drovics

Bombing daily for well over a year A death sentence for everyone here The Lancet said it's 200K killed Body parts strewn, mass graves filled Shooting at families, then when medics arrive Shoot again, leave no child alive They announced their intentions, to clear the north And they rolled in the tanks, firing forth How many months now with nothing t…

The decline of the left in the US that I've been witnessing now for decades has been a process of exclusion that bears trying to describe.توسط drovics

I'm not much for playing Charades, so I never actually got around to voting in an election until Ralph Nader ran for president in 2000. I also sang at various events with him, and at the Green Party national convention around that time, and at the last Green Party national convention online, and many other Green Party events in between. I've also v…

I had been thinking that maybe "The Ballad of Donald and Kamala" was all I was going to have to say about this election cycle, but apparently there's more.توسط drovics

Episode 3 of 3 of my audio seminar on the Gaza genocide. All of the episodes can be found at davidrovics.com/palestine.توسط drovics

Episode 2 of the Apocalypse in Review. You can listen to episode 1 at davidrovics.com/palestine.توسط drovics

To mark a year of high-tech war being waged against the Palestinian people, there have been many different efforts at putting the past year into context, by many individuals and media outlets. Here's mine -- or the first of the three episodes in the series, anyway. The other two will soon follow. This first episode is a crash course in the history …

The first time I organized a show for someone, I think five people showed up.توسط drovics

The Hawai'i department of the Ministry of Culture has given us a haunting remix of the song I wrote about those Iranian missiles that hit those Israeli military targets the other day.توسط drovics

Everywhere the Al-Jazeera reporters were reporting from throughout the Middle East during and after Iran's October 1st ballistic missile attack on Israeli military targets, people could be heard cheering loudly. Most of the people I know across the world might not have been cheering, but their hearts were a little lighter, for a little while, at le…

We interrupt these wars to bring you a Senate hearing with Bernie Sanders calling the shots. I'm still recovering from the shock of hearing a person with a Danish accent utter that much nonsense. Obviously they're not all fine upstanding radical leftists like almost everyone I know in Denmark! If you've missed the proceedings, the upshot is that ha…

If there were any press outlets interested in covering the trials and tribulations of a little-known traveling musician trying to sing any songs about Palestine without having people try to cancel his gigs, what might that coverage look like?توسط drovics

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was born on July 27th, 1998, and killed by an Israeli sniper while standing in solidarity with besieged Palestinians in the town of Beita, in the Occupied West Bank, on September 6th, 2024. Remixed rendition thanks to Chet Gardiner, from his studio in Hawai'i.توسط drovics

Here's Chris Cook's interview with me from earlier today, wherein I wax eloquent about the horrors for a half hour. You can hear the entire show and subscribe to Gorilla Radio, which is a wonderful weekly podcast, on Substack. And to meet the host, come to my gig next weekend in Victoria, BC!توسط drovics

Israeli settlers began a new campaign to steal more of the land from the people of the town of Beita, Palestine, in 2021. Turkish-American ISM activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was the 17th protester to be killed by Israeli troops in Beita since 2021.توسط drovics

Over the course of the summer I wrote a bunch of things, but didn't make audio versions of most of it. Here's everything I missed, in one fell swoop, interspersed with appropriate songs. The following segments are the order in which I recorded them, and the order in which they were published on Substack, and in the case of "I Survived Chicago," on …

My very prolific musical collaborator, Chet Gardiner, has come up with a very appropriately sinister backdrop for this song, which is the first of two songs I wrote after the arrest of Palestine solidarity organizer and influencer, Sarah Wilkinson, in England at the end of August. Like the other song on the subject ("On the Streets of London"), thi…

Sarah Wilkinson's outrageous and also impossible bail conditions have been dropped, due to popular pressure, but Keir Starmer's balaclava-clad Mossad thugs are still on the loose in England, terrorizing journalists. Here's Chet Gardiner's brilliant new remix of "On the Streets of London," the song I wrote a few days ago about this stark reality.…

Sarah Wilkinson was brutally arrested and her home ransacked. Now she's under house arrest, prohibited from using phones or other devices, awaiting the possibility of further persecution under the extremely anti-democratic Section 12 of the 2000 Terrorism Act in England. This is a song about how you can be brutally abducted and charged with ridicul…

Chet Gardiner has improved the sound and added some very tasty instrumentation to this song I wrote and recorded in my living room last week. The song is about one of so many historical events that could, if they were much better known, have a real impact on the outlook of so many people, about the prospects for civilization. Anti-slavery sentiment…

Keir Starmer's Thought Police have been raiding the homes of journalists and activists in the past few days, most recently arresting longtime organizer, journalist, and social media influencer Sarah Wilkinson, who I have known, admired, and collaborated with for many years. Sarah and others are being charged with violating Section 12 of the Terrori…

Authorities in the state of Wisconsin only tried to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 once. But before they had a chance to hold a trial in Milwaukee, thousands of local people on horseback descended upon the jail and freed Joshua Glover from his captors, making sure he got to Canada, rather than being taken back to Missouri. This is one of so…

Those who read my recent lengthy missive have some idea of my impressions of the protests surrounding the DNC in Chicago last week, as they were executed. (Here’s that missive in Counterpunch.) As I mentioned in that piece, protest organizers and people trying to help them have faced endless problems coming from the city authorities in the process …

On Thursday evening we dropped by the studio of WZRD community radio in Chicago for an impromptu set, which they broadcast live. They also recorded most of it, and here it is...توسط drovics