This Week with David Rovics

The Hasbara Trolls Switch Platforms

My pet battalion of pro-Israel internet trolls have migrated their operation from Facebook to X, and refined their emphasis as well.

"The Rule of Law": Myth vs. Reality

I humbly submit that the pretense of the leadership of the Democratic Party that it's different because it believes in the rule of law is nonsense.

Shaun McCafferty does "St. Patrick Battalion"

Shaun McCafferty has a brilliant new live album that's out on all the streaming platforms now. Here's one of the tracks -- a wonderful rendition of "St. Patrick Battalion."

"Up the Rebels" session 1

Today I did a live broadcast which will be the first of a series of online concerts I plan to do about resistance.

Whether we're talking about armed uprisings, mass civil disobedience, or actions carried out by much smaller groups of people, current events and history are full of stories of resistance.

"When you fight, you win" may not quite be actually true, even if it's a good slogan. But even if making the effort doesn't always get the desired results, resistance in its many forms often leads to positive changes that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

The themes I explore in this episode include:

• When the Ottoman Navy rescued as many as 800,000 Spanish Jews in 1492
• The Merthyr Rising in Wales in 1831
• The Rent Strike Wars in New York State in the 1840's
• The resistance to British occupation by the Irish Republican Army in the 1970's and 1980's
• The blockade of Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1993
• Muslim-Christian solidarity on the Kenya-Somalia border in 2015
• Palestine Action's continuing resistance to Elbit Systems' efforts to supply the Israeli war machine with weaponry
• The resistance of Ansar Allah, aka the Houthi Army, in solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza on the Red Sea

Hollywood Bread and the Unanswered Questions

Was Israel involved with the 9/11 attacks?  It's classified.

New song: "This Is Genocide"

A song for all the holocaust-deniers.

Dear Diary: If A Song Could Raise An Army

Some thoughts on life and death.

Little Crow's Uprising and the Minnesota Famine of 1862

Revisiting history, events in Minnesota in 1862 and events in Israel and Gaza since October 7th have some remarkable similarities.

South By Southwest By Middle East

It turns out there are a lot of artists who don't want to play for exposure while children in Gaza are dying of it.

"Ballad of the TikTok Ban" Take 2!

I wrote this song about a year ago while on tour in Australia, and then promptly forgot about it.  But now that banning TikTok is back in the news with a vengeance, I revised "Ballad of the TikTok Ban" a bit, and made a slightly better recording of it this morning in my living room studio.