This Week with David Rovics

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.

Of Triggers and Bullets

Even as newly-elected members of the Congress are just taking their seats in the shut-down government, the 2020 election season is already beginning.  Your choice, as usual, will be between the trigger and the bullet.

The Joy of Life

I love babies (and children), which is a good thing, because we have a new one as of last Saturday -- Koto is her name.  Here's a quote from Che to summarize this week's podcast:  "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.  It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

Living Room Elephant

When the rent comes due for the billionaire class, the only acceptable currency will be blood.  To kick off 2019, I'm going to talk about the Living Room Elephant.

Hello 2019 (Good-Bye Weimar)

A new year is upon us, but I find myself regularly wondering which century we're in.