Salonen came into conflict with the board over budget cuts and other cost-cutting measures, which he perceived as dangerous to the artistic health and well-being of the orchestra.
It was the revelation that the police and district attorney had “buried,” i.e., deliberately concealed, evidence that led to the judge’s action.
The two Memorandums of Agreement were released July 10 on IATSE websites, only four days before entertainment workers were scheduled to begin voting on the deals.
Through a new documentary, the New York Times seeks to keep the #MeToo pot simmering, divert the attention of as many people as possible from big social issues and prepare the ground for further attacks on democratic rights.
The two Memorandums of Agreement were released July 10 on IATSE websites, only four days before entertainment workers were scheduled to begin voting on the deals.
The series offers not so much an alternative history, as an anti-history, aimed above all at an upper-middle class audience fixated on the politics of race and gender.
The Amazon Prime series based on the role-playing game of the same title, depicts—in a puerile and unserious manner—the conditions in the US 200 years after a nuclear war.
The series is a slap in the face of contemporary cultural backwardness and degradation, and for that alone, writer/director Steven Zaillian deserves credit.
Through a new documentary, the New York Times seeks to keep the #MeToo pot simmering, divert the attention of as many people as possible from big social issues and prepare the ground for further attacks on democratic rights.
This is not a good film, it is misguided from beginning to end. Why should anyone care about the central character or most of the others?
The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.
Gary Johnson poses as a hired killer, using various disguises and personae, and helps prosecute dozens of people who seek out his services over the course of a number of years.
Salonen came into conflict with the board over budget cuts and other cost-cutting measures, which he perceived as dangerous to the artistic health and well-being of the orchestra.
Eisler’s life and career were closely bound up with the vicissitudes of the international class struggle in the first half of the 20th century.
These are important, socially committed artists, determined to take a stand against the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
The film falls flat, presenting a largely sanitized vision of the band and the times when the group and its members came of age. Any serious examination of the music and its evolution is also lacking.
The series of lectures on the historical development of Zionism exposes the bankruptcy of all politics based on nationalism and race—and points the way forward for all those who want to fight against genocide, war and dictatorship.
The bus accident proves to be a major news event with political implications. The accident exposes the fundamental injustices blighting Palestinian life in Israel.
Okrent’s book The Guarded Gate examines an episode of anti-immigration frenzy that resembles in many ways the current environment in bourgeois politics.
Zeineddine’s stories concern immigrants who escaped the civil war in Lebanon (1975-90) and their children, who are negotiating their own escapes.
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
