Comic-actor Russell Brand lynched by media mob after sexual assault allegations
Legal and democratic rights must be defended to put an end to the situation where public figures can be torn down on the basis purely of allegations.
Thomas Scripps•
“Political censorship at its most blunt”
Interview with artist Diego Marcial Rios, whose paintings in San Mateo, California show were taken down because of police objections
A flagrant example of censorship occurred last month, when objections from police officers led to the abrupt closure of all art exhibitions at municipal galleries in San Mateo, California.
Erik Schreiber•
Striker: “We will be here 100 days, 200 days. I’m ready to go five years.”
Millionaire celebrities delay talk show return after Writers Guild announces negotiations with studios, networks
After facing enormous backlash on social media and on the picket lines, talk show hosts Bill Maher, Drew Barrymore, and Jennifer Hudson announced they would temporarily pause returning to their talk shows after the Writers Guild of America confirmed on Monday that they would resume negotiations with the major studios on Wednesday in the hopes of getting a deal “as soon as possible.”
Jacob Crosse, Marc Wells•
Sean Penn’s Superpower: War propaganda
Penn has become one of the most fervent and unhinged supporters of the fascist-infested Ukrainian regime of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Stefan Steinberg•
Nick Barrickman, Bhuvana Tumakur•
Gabriel Black, Our Reporters•
David Walsh•
Joanne Laurier•
Alejandro López•
Striker: “We will be here 100 days, 200 days. I’m ready to go five years.”
Millionaire celebrities delay talk show return after Writers Guild announces negotiations with studios, networks
After facing enormous backlash on social media and on the picket lines, talk show hosts Bill Maher, Drew Barrymore, and Jennifer Hudson announced they would temporarily pause returning to their talk shows after the Writers Guild of America confirmed on Monday that they would resume negotiations with the major studios on Wednesday in the hopes of getting a deal “as soon as possible.”
Jacob Crosse, Marc Wells•
Thousands of writers and actors rally in Los Angeles: “Most revolutions occur … when you have nothing left”
Film and television workers are determined to fight but must free themselves from the corporate-conciliatory strategy of the union.
Gabriel Black, Our Reporters•
Painkiller: Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic dramatized
Any honest viewer is likely to extend the condemnation to the profit system as a whole, which is entirely willing to sacrifice untold numbers of lives in exchange for cash flow.
Joanne Laurier•
WGA co-chair Chris Keyser’s Labor Day message: The union apparatus prepares to sell out writers’ strike
Keyser represents a certain social type, affluent, well-connected in the industry, intimately tied to the Democratic Party, that dominates the WGA and SAG-AFTRA leaderships.
David Walsh•
Jacob Crosse•
David Walsh•
Jacob Crosse, Joseph Kishore•
Jacob Crosse•
US media responds with hysteria, vindictiveness to Woody Allen and Roman Polanski at Venice film festival
The presence in Venice of directors Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and Luc Besson caused consternation in the American media, in particular.
David Walsh•
Blacklisted in the US, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski receive standing ovations at Venice Film Festival
The overwhelmingly positive reaction to Allen and Polanski, along with Luc Besson, indicates that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the upper middle class layers behind the #MeToo campaign to maintain their slanders and misrepresentations.
Stefan Steinberg•
Gaadi: Caste oppression in pre-colonial Sri Lanka
Prasanna Vithanage’s film is set in the early nineteenth century as British colonialists plot to overthrow the feudal Kandy kingdom and take control of the entire island.
Pani Wijesiriwardena•
Between Two Worlds: The brutally exploited in France
Author Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) gives up her life and connections in Paris to work as a cleaning woman in northern France.
David Walsh•
James Brewer•
David Walsh•
J. Cooper, David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Stefan Steinberg, Fred Mazelis•
Dangerous Melodies: Classical music and US foreign policy in the 20th century
The book, which explores the relationship between US foreign policy and classical music over the course of the 20th century, covers much territory that is both informative and relevant.
Fred Mazelis•
Country singer Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” promotes antisemitism and racism
The song is a provocative collection of reactionary attacks on the poor, disguised with phony populist appeals and denunciations of “rich men” in northern cities.
Nick Barrickman, David Walsh•
Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist of the Band, dead at 80
The Canadian-born guitarist and songwriter spent 16 years on the road with The Band before embarking on a musical career in Los Angeles scoring movies and producing records.
James Brewer•
Detroit singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez who won acclaim in South Africa dead at 81
The subject of a 2012 biography about his South African audience searching for him, Rodriguez died at 81 years of age.
James Brewer•
Fred Mazelis•
Paul Bond•
Barry Grey•
Erik Schreiber, Nick Barrickman•
David Walsh•
Die Insel (The Island): A harrowing account of the European Union’s murderous refugee policy
Thanks to her lively depictions and her factual, yet sensitive descriptions, the author brings to life the "hell of Moria".
Carola Kleinert•
Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): Chronicler of American carnage
His works are so permeated with misanthropy and a hostility to human progress that his literary output represents a step back from the great American writers of the 20th century.
Eric London•
Author Elizabeth Gilbert suspends novel’s publication due to protests by Ukrainian nationalists
Gilbert explained she was “removing the book from its publication schedule” because of complaints about its Soviet-Russian setting.
David Walsh•
John McWhorter’s Woke Racism: An argument about how to secure privilege
McWhorter's book offers biting criticism of racialism, but it explains neither where this ideology comes from nor how to combat it.
Andrea Peters•
James McDonald•
Sandy English•
Margaret Rees•
Sandy English•
James McDonald•
Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”
Richard Phillips•
An interview with Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee: “One of the characteristics of sick societies … is that they don’t give you any good choices”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
David Walsh•
An interview with Bryan Wizemann, writer-director of You Mean Everything to Me: “There’s another ‘underserved’ population … and that’s people without money”
Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me follows a young woman, Cassandra (Morgan Saylor), who, faced with homelessness, comes under the spell of a local DJ, Nathan (Ben Rosenfield).
David Walsh•
Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem jailed under anti-terror laws speaks with the WSWS
The notorious Counter Terrorism and Investigation Department arrested Jazeem in May 2020, claiming that his poetry promoted extremism and falsely accused him of teaching extremism to his students.
Vimukthi Vidarshana and Shree Haran•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
Frank Anderson•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
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