This Week with David Rovics

Where's the Music?

For many years now we hear a lot on the news about "the culture wars."  But there's another war that's been going on for decades:  the war against culture itself.

What Would Cointelpro Do?

If Cointelpro were still active today, what would the modern G-Men be doing?

A Cheerleader Without A Team

One more chapter in the tragic story of the League of Canceled Cheerleaders.

The Silenced Majority and How It Stays That Way

It's wonderful to see significant and dedicated fractions of the population take to the streets, or at least the campuses.  But where is everybody else?

New song: "The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee"

"Antisemitism" is the new "communism" -- have you ever said anything that could be construed in someone's convoluted mind as somehow anti-Jewish? Iran is the new USSR, Elise Stefanik is the new Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-Israeli Activities Committee is going strong, ruining one life at a time, and striking fear throughout academia and beyond.

The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee

If you imagine when considering a slogan
That it could have various interpretations
If you believe in understanding the other side
Then you’re clearly much too vulnerable, open wide
If you don’t want to be grilled by the Inquisition
If you’d rather avoid such a prone position

If you run a university and you act the way you ought
If you think there’s a place for nuanced thought
If it’s hard to boil it all down to yes or no
If you think context matters and you dare say so
You’d best be out of town when you’re the one they pick
To go get grilled by Elise Stefanik

You'd better tow the line or else you know what they’ll do
The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee will be coming after you

If you’re fond of notions like free discourse
If you think dialogue might be better than brute force
You’re thinking isn’t nearly black and white enough
And in the halls of Congress they’ll be talking tough
Showing those bureaucrats who knows best
Making sure who knows they could be their next guest

If you want to keep your job and your donor base
You don’t want to have to come face to face
You’d better call in the police and salute your leader
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister
Make sure they crack the heads of all those Jew-haters
So says the queen of the new red-baiters

"Keep on Eating Til the Card's Maxed Out" REMIX

Chet Gardiner has done some especially impressive enhancements to this song so it really sounds like I'm playing with a band, if you didn't know I recorded my parts alone in my living room.

On another note, thanks to the wonderful gaggle of folks who joined my Community-Supported Art program on one platform or another since I put out this very autobiographical song in the first place a few days ago. Anyone else who wants to become a member, and receive a Better Anarchist Club card in the mail, please feel free! My children and my landlord will appreciate you, whether they know it or not.

A Troll Scroll

I decided this morning to livestream a guided tour of some of the thousands of vile comments from pro-Israel trolls I've gotten on Facebook in the past 24 hours. Podcast version.

Some Thoughts on the Campus Protests

As I watch in the real world as well as through the various other means what is (and isn't) happening on college campuses across the US and beyond recently, a number of thoughts come to mind that seem worth exploring a bit.

Why I Wrote the Song, "I'm A Better Anarchist Than You"

Listen to this song, and take the red pill, friends.

New song: "Boycott, Sanction, and Divest"

A song of appreciation for all the protesting students, staff, and faculty at Columbia and many other institutions across the US.