Tag: Walter Ben Michaels

• 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

• The Democratic Cliff

  The current metaphor of “the fiscal cliff” marks the return of a few common tropes in American politics.  First is the latest incarnation of what Naomi Klein has referred to as the Shock Doctrine, the use and sometimes manufacturing of “crisis” situations to force people to accept right wing / neoliberal policies that legislative bodies…

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  December 28, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, Politics

  Austerity, Barack Obama, Bill Black, Economics, Fiscal Cliff, Folk Implosion, Left media, Neoliberalism, Politics, The Real News Network, USA, Walter Ben Michaels, Washington Consensus, Yasmin Nair