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September 02, 2022
TG 866: Biden Issues Extraordinary Threat to His Oppoents

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss President Biden's extraordinary speech in Philadelphia in which he denigrated and threatened half of America's population.

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The Gaggle Music Club: Isaac Albéniz’s "Iberia"

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia. Written between 1905 and 1909, during the composer's final years of life, "Iberia" is a towering masterpieces of piano composition. The work consists of 12 pieces grouped into four books. Though rooted in the musical idioms of Andalusia and indeed of Spain a whole, "Iberia" was composed while Albéniz was living in Paris and Nice.

As Albéniz’s health deteriorated during the composition of this work, he was supported and encouraged by a circle of French musicians, notably Debussy and Dukas, who admired his synthesis of Spanish folk idioms with French impressionist techniques.

Born in 1860 in Catalonia, Albéniz was a child prodigy pianist who gave his first public concert at age four. By the time he was nine, he was performing internationally. His early career was marked by spectacular virtuosity. After studying at the Leipzig and Brussels conservatories, he later moved to Paris, where he came under the ...

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Monday Night At The Movies: "Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears" (1980)

Join Gagglers for "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears"!
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TG 1896: Estonia Picks Fight With Russia In The Baltic; Finland Gets Nervous

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss NATO's attempts to open a up a new front in its war against Russia, this time in the Baltic Sea, using Estonia and Finland, among others, as its proxies.

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Slobodan Milošević Interview From 1992

The one and only. Long-forgotten interview from 1992 with Slobodan Milošević, then president of Serbia. The media war on the Serbs in general and the demonization of Milošević in particular have few parallels in recent history. The war criminals of that time--Clinton, Holbrooke, Albright--are now largely forgotten. Milošević's patience and cool reasonableness stand in stark contrast to the fake, whipped-up media hysteria of those days.

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January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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