Monthly Archives: July 2022

Stinger Missiles, Mercenaries and Neo-Nazis: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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From the US vantage point, what is a “democracy”? In today’s Orwellian vocabulary, it means any country supporting US foreign policy. … The antonym to “democracy” is “terrorist.” That simply means a nation willing to fight to become independent from US neoliberal democracy.

-Michael Hudson, “America Escalates its ‘Democratic’ Oil War in the Near East,” Counterpunch, 6 January 2020

Click here to read my recent article on the situation in Ukraine (published in Medium.com)

Feeling Versus Trying To Be (Mechanically) Perfect

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“When I took my time, when I really engaged with the emotional part of my being as I played, I started playing in an imperfect way [which sounded much better].” -David Walliman

David Walliman describes his journey from being technically sound to being more musically in touch with his playing of the blues. In the process he discovers that being technically sound yet without feeling can lead to boring music.