This Week with David Rovics

Trolls, Mastodons, Wikipedians, and the Condition of Our Communications

Various recent developments remind many of us that we live in an information landscape dystopia.

Failure’s Silver Lining

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.

Sitting At A Broken Table in Portland, Los Angeles, and Sharm El-Sheikh

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

Why the Neofascists Are Winning the Argument Against the Neoliberals

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. 

If We Divide, They Will Conquer

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

Notes From Scandinavia

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.

Why Real Artists Don’t Like Capitalism or Identity Politics

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.)

Last Saturday Soiree

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

Ballad of the ”Green Cities” Corporation

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.

Last Saturday Soiree

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.