"And then I heard Jimmy Garrison, and I began to see that the bass was more than what I was hearing." - William Parker
Happy Birthday Jimmy Garrison
born March 3, 1934
"And then I heard Jimmy Garrison, and I began to see that the bass was more than what I was hearing." - William Parker
Happy Birthday Jimmy Garrison
born March 3, 1934
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...
Superb interview with Asef Bayat:
‘Iran’s leftists are also frustrated with the Western left, which they believe mischaracterizes the Islamic Republic as “anti-imperialist” and overlooks the real struggles of Iranians fighting for dignity and democracy.’
An old piece about the rise of Khomeini and the Islamic Republic. Though dated in some ways, the piece offers useful context for thinking about the IR’s brutality— and about the history of American aggression against Iran.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Fuck Trump
Fuck Netanyahu
Fuck Khamenei
It is entirely possible, nay completely rational, to hold all these opinions at once.
The peoples of the USA, Israel and Iran deserve so much better.
#NoWar #NoWarWithIran
Israel is at it again, this time bombing Iran in partnership with their friends in the White House
As a Jew, I'd love to go a month without having to denounce yet another bombing of yet another country by the genocidal state that falsely claims to act in our name.
‘Georgescu had already spoken out against chemotherapy, questioned whether cancer is real and promoted whatever version of natural, traditional healing suited the moment (his wife, Cristela, is a prominent “natural” wellness influencer).’
James Meek in Romania:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
one of the most exquisite albums I’ve heard in some time, to which I’ve listened on repeat in a permanent, not a ‘near permanent,’ state of wonder.
24.02.2026 11:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alexander Hawkins Taylor Ho Bynum - A Near Permanent State Of Wonder
Alexander Hawkins: piano
Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet, flugelhorn
Liner Notes: Bill Dixon
Available early September
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‘The effect of the court’s decision was to leave unsettled the question of whether the First Amendment prevents the government from denying admission to foreign citizens simply because it doesn’t approve of what they have to say.’
Jameel Jaffer on ideological exclusion
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Trump’s threats against Iran, and the strangling of Cuba, are a reminder that imperialism isn’t just about extraction, theft, exploitation: it’s the right to completely fuck with another people’s lives on a whim.
20.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Beautiful tribute by Ziad Majed to Leila Shahid. vendredis-arabes.blogspot.com/2026/02/leil...
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Photo de Leïla Shahid
Elle fut depuis des décennies l’inlassable voix de la Palestine en France et en Europe. Leïla Shahid n’est plus. Avec son suicide, le glas sonne sur la terre pour toute l’humanité. Adieu mon amie, si belle personne, si joyeuse combattante.
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Leïla Shahid - the face of Palestine in France, a woman of courage and humanity who introduced Jean Genet to the Palestinian cause and took him to Sabra and Shatila after the massacre - has passed, at 76, after a long illness.
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Thanks! Hope so too.
18.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love love love
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”I am somebody“: the immortal words of Reverend Jesse Jackson, an American hero who has passed at 84, after a long life defined by the pursuit of justice and emancipation for all peoples. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sn5h...
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Jesse Jackson, who has passed at 84, was a pioneering advocate of Palestinian freedom, of a just peace, and of Black-Palestinian solidarity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=shah...
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there’s no understating the catastrophe our national politic, captive to a brutal racist regime. small consolation: that our great city has great leadership. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uoU9...
16.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Outstanding piece by @melindacooper.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social on the Epstein files and the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right who preside over an economy of masters and servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
15.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘Beauvoir described Cold War America as a coercively cheerful country that refused to confront the reality of death, that expressed its horror of the body in advertisements for deodorant and laxatives.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Arundhati Roy, in her statement withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival after Wim Wenders’s appalling press conference, shows, again, what artistic integrity looks like. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
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Morton Feldman: ‘What the world doesn’t need is one more twenty minute contemporary piece…We need a good hour and twenty minute piece…’ Elliott Carter: ‘Who’s we?’ Buffalo, 1979, filmed by DA Pennebaker. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzE...
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This essay comes at you like a torrent. America, that polluted river with its promise of fresh water www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
10.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative
Peter Gordon on the meaning of ‘Never Again’ in our times
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
The full transcript of Adam Shatz’s LRB winter lecture is lengthy, knotty & worth every second. What America means, in theory & in practice - & specifically what it means now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
07.02.2026 08:49 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1The Nation has published an issue online featuring articles by writers from Gaza - a timely reminder that Gaza is not at peace, that its people are still undergoing unspeakable horrors and remain at the mercy of Israel and its allies - above all the United States. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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‘Jazz embodied the promise of another country, one that was true to its professed ideals. Its very existence seemed miraculous. A vernacular music, created by the descendants of slaves, had evolved into the country’s greatest art form.’
Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A brilliant, elegant and sprawling account of the unfolding American disaster, whose roots are deep and historic and whose impact is sadly global.
@adamshatz.bsky.social
...the first federal refugee resettlement programme, established in 1794, allocated the equivalent of $440 million to assist French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution. Washington, et al. welcomed the slaveholders into a country where slavery was the very condition of the white man’s freedom.
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‘Donald Trump’s presidency is many things, but it is, above all, a violent attempt to make America synonymous with his vision of a fortress state at war with immigrants, shadowy globalists, “narco-terrorists” and domestic enemies.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...