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Oh to Believe in Another World review – William Kentridge’s amazing animated ballet of black comic pain
October 30, 2026
The Baku international arts festival in Azerbaijan is showcasing an amazing cine-musical creation, perhaps the most amazing animation I have ever seen. Oh to Believe in Another World is an hour-long collage animation with live-action choreography by the 71-year-old South African artist and film-maker William Kentridge. It is shown with the live orchestral accompaniment of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, and this event is partly in honour of the 120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth this year, and partly to honour Shostakovich’s reportedly unrequited love (and lifelong friendship) for his student, Azerbaijani pianist and composer Elmira Nazirova.
... full articleA government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
‘They don’t produce literature:’ The politics of erasure
October 28, 2026
At a campaign rally in Michigan, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered a sweeping anti-Arab generalization regarding the Middle East and North Africa. Addressing the crowd, Kennedy claimed that the world’s 500 million Arabs “don’t produce science,” earn no Nobel Prizes, win no Fields Medals, receive no Wolf Prizes, and “don’t produce literature”. Modern Arab societies, he argued, are defined primarily by stagnation, hatred, and conflict.
... full articleNew Evidence Allegedly Ties Trump to 11 Sexual Assaults Related to Epstein
October 26, 2026
The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice.
The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, with most cases happening in the 1990s.
... full articleTruth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
The Epstein files are a US midterms sledgehammer
October 27, 2026
When Americans go to the polls a week from now, accountability will be front and center.
The Jeffrey Epstein files are emblematic of a corrupt system. And the fish rots from the head down. Beyond the grifter-in-chief and his spawn are billionaires profiting from pay-to-play relationships and predatory corporations rewarded for choosing profits over people, machines over humanity.
... full articleOnce a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.