This Week with David Rovics

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.

The Bombs, Smokescreens and Fig Leaves of Progressive Zionism

Multiple scandals ostensibly about anti-Semitism are featuring prominently in the news in the US, England and France.  But are any of them actually about anti-Semitism?  This week I explore the deliberate confusion of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism -- and that especially troublesome and peculiar phenomenon known as Progressive Zionism.

The War on Refugees

There was the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on terror, and now the war on refugees.  In this war, a majority of the victims are children.  One of them was named Mawda.

Facing Blackface

On the 160th birthday of the White Homeland (the state of Oregon).

State of Emergency

My response to the State of the Union.  Including a new song, "Emergency Rule."

My Own Industrial Collapse

In an effort not to appear too self-absorbed I try to avoid mentioning it too often, but for this week's episode we turn our attention to another collapsed industry -- my own.

One Day at a Catholic High School

The US federal government is shut down and there's a lot else going on in the world, but let me take a few minutes to tell you what happened when I visited a Catholic high school.