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when the revolution comes

How is it that after the Arab Spring, the regimes in place seem committed to the same repression that preceded it. In fact it may have opened the lid on a pandora’s box of thousands of wacko religious nuts going … Continue reading

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Day-O : cut him some slack?

There was a great deal of controversy over jazz and swing music in Nazi Germany, with a public antipathy towards it, yet for the higher ups the debate was more nuanced. To even conceive of Goebbels as a jazz afficionnado … Continue reading

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