Tag: Haiti

• Top 40 over 40.17: A Different Kind of Swans Song

  Most of the musicians I’ve written about in this series are ones that were important to me when I was younger because of work they did themselves when they were young.  I’ve written about records they did after turning 40 that either came close to or equaled the quality I heard in their earlier recordings.…

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  September 20, 2014

  Music, Politics, Top 40 Over 40

  american empire, Brandon Eggleston, C.L.R. James, Folk Implosion, Gerald Horne, Haiti, Howlin’ Wolf, John Darnielle, Michael Gira, Muddy Waters, Music, Nick Cave, Race, Randall Robinson, Record Reviews, Spare Parts, Swans, The Bad Seeds, The Black Jacobins, The Counter-Revolution of 1776, The Real News Network, Top 40 Over 40, Touissant L’Ouverture, Walter Ben Michaels, William Faulkner, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire

• Muffled in Miami.2

  As a post script to my post on the censure of Ozzie Guilllen for his comments on Cuba, I’m posting today stories from The Real News Network and Democracy Now on the isolation of the US and Canada at the just-concluded Summit of the Americas because of their refusal to allow Cuba to participate.  As…

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  April 17, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, History, Politics, Sports

  Bill Clinton, Cold War, Fidel Castro, Food Justice, Haiti, IMF, Imperialism, Latin America, Miami Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, Politics, Sports, USA, Washington Consensus, World Bank