This Week with David Rovics

Somewhere On Spotify: My Own Industrial Collapse, Part 2

Spotify is not single-handedly responsible for my relatively impoverished financial state as a working musician.  But it is certainly one of the most prominent reasons for it.

Pete Seeger Was A Movement Musician

Who was Pete Seeger?  Some reflections on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pete's birth.

For All the Bicycles in Denmark

Of ghost bikes and bike lanes.

If I Had A Hacker

After Julian Assange's arrest and the resulting explosion of the internet last weekend, I attempt to pick up some of the pieces. 

How Do You Strangle A Corporation?

In this week's missive we explore the question: how do you strangle a corporation, when it doesn't have a neck?

Before the Flood

I am, it might reasonably be said, a climate refugee – though a very comfortable one. Escaping the forest fires to run a little cafe in Denmark is hardly a sacrifice. But if the cafe might be a good retirement plan for me, it won't be for my children – far too soon, the whole country in which Cafe Hellebaek is located will likely be underwater.

To Brexit or Not to Brexit?

The main problem with the question of Leave or Remain is that it's not the question most people in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland are really interested in.  It's just a very fraught proxy for the real question.

Why Did This Just Happen Again?

Ethnic Cleansing 101.

Blowing the Whistle in 1943

In 1943, Georg Duckwitz blew the whistle on Nazi plans to deport and kill Denmark's Jews. In 2010, Chelsea Manning was arrested for blowing the whistle on US war crimes. Now she's back behind bars.  

The Venezuela Deception

The US, the UK and other colonial powers have a long history of conducting exactly the kinds of crimes against humanity that they are currently carrying out on the Venezuelan people, in yet another naked effort to sabotage and then overthrow another popular Latin American democracy.