CBS cancels The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.
Marc Wells•
F1: The Movie–Hollywood formulas 1, 2 and 3
The technology and skills involved in Formula 1 racing are extraordinary—the vehicles are traveling at 200 miles per hour and more, and sometimes within inches of each other.
David Walsh•
Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Fontaines D.C. announce formation of musicians’ alliance to repel Zionist attacks
There are many political questions to be discussed and worked through, but the organization of an alliance of artists to oppose Zionist lies and attacks is a step forward.
David Walsh•
Interview with Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei, writer-director of COVID pandemic documentary Blame: “I wanted to be a filmmaker guided by curiosity, not ideology”
Blame offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
Benjamin Mateus•
Sandy English•
Joanne Laurier•
Kevin Reed•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
CBS cancels The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.
Marc Wells•
US Senate votes to end funding of public broadcasting
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
David Walsh•
Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead: A satire about technology billionaires: “Planet Earth’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet”
The storyline involves rivalries and conflicts that inevitably surface at Mountainhead among the four swollen economic interests and egos
David Walsh•
Andor: Encouraging and reflecting anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian sentiment
Andor speaks to the brutality of modern capitalist society, reflecting the real-world descent into dictatorship, war and global crisis.
Jane Wise•
Francis Portocarrero•
Ed Hightower•
Isabel Roy•
Paul Bond•
Paul Mitchell•
F1: The Movie–Hollywood formulas 1, 2 and 3
The technology and skills involved in Formula 1 racing are extraordinary—the vehicles are traveling at 200 miles per hour and more, and sometimes within inches of each other.
David Walsh•
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme: For today’s “ruthless capitalist … there is no shame, everything happens with cameras and microphones on in front of everyone”
The film is a sprawling satire about a shameless, domineering businessman and his various relationships, economic and personal.
Joanne Laurier•
Superman: Trump forces outraged by defense of immigrants and … “human kindness”
The hostility to the film in certain quarters emerges out of the high level of social and political tensions in the US.
David Walsh•
Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead: A satire about technology billionaires: “Planet Earth’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet”
The storyline involves rivalries and conflicts that inevitably surface at Mountainhead among the four swollen economic interests and egos
David Walsh•
Richard Phillips•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
Joanne Laurier•
David Walsh•
Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Fontaines D.C. announce formation of musicians’ alliance to repel Zionist attacks
There are many political questions to be discussed and worked through, but the organization of an alliance of artists to oppose Zionist lies and attacks is a step forward.
David Walsh•
David Cousins, songwriter and singer for the Strawbs, dead at 85
Cousins was widely recognized for his emotionally dynamic and expressive voice. He could shift from fragile vulnerability to commanding or angry theatricality within a single phrase.
Kevin Reed•
Federal jury rejects most serious charges against rapper and music industry mogul Sean Combs
A federal jury in New York City acquitted Sean “Diddy” Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges but convicted him of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Kevin Reed•
Bands pull out of Manchester’s Radar Festival after event, under pressure from Live Nation-AMG and UK authorities, drops Bob Vylan
Bob Vylan came to international prominence recently by courageously denouncing the mass murder in Gaza at the Glastonbury Festival.
David Walsh•
J. L’Heureau•
Erik Schreiber•
Jacob Crosse•
Erik Schreiber•
Fred Mazelis•
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Tom Peters•
A conversation with Blake Bailey, Philip Roth biographer and author of Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me: “I said ... I’m not going to take this lying down”
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Film director Prasanna Vithanage discusses Paradise with the WSWS
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
Richard Phillips•
Interview with Hany Abu-Assad, Palestinian filmmaker (Paradise Now, Omar): “Gaza is the Bastille of our day … a lot is going to change”
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
David Walsh•
Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
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•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Vimukthi Vidarshana and Shree Haran•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
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