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TG 1926: What Is Trump's Game In Ukraine?

George Szamuely discusses President Trump's abrupt reversal of policy on Russia and Ukraine, and wonders what lies behind it.

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Monday Night At The Movies: "Germany Year Zero" (1948)

Join Gagglers for the runner-up of the "aftermath of war" movie poll: Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero"!
The screening starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.
Share all of your thoughts, comments and criticisms on the Live Chat.

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The Gaggle Music Club: Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable"

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable." Composed between 1914 and 1916 during the Great War, the symphony is frequently described as Nielsen's greatest work—in terms of ambition, originality and long-term influence.

Unquestionably Denmark’s greatest composer, Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) was born into a modest family on the island of Funen and developed into one of the most original symphonic voices of the early 20th century. His style is characterized by contrapuntal clarity, structural innovation and a fascination with dynamic opposition—conflict and resolution are central to his symphonic thought. Nielsen also contributed significantly to chamber music, concertos, choral works and songs.

The war deeply disturbed Nielsen, and the symphony reflects his anguish. He saw Europe’s civilization, art and values under siege. Nonetheless, he wanted to assert that life persists, fights, renews itself—and that music embodies this same ...

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TG 1937: Helsinki Final Act--50 Years On

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, an agreement that brought stability and security to the European continent, and reflect on the very different interpretations it has give rise to in Russia and the West.

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Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, Aug. 11.

The theme is "films in which people adopt fake identities."

Please continue to vote after Aug. 11, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on Aug. 18.

8 hours ago

https://www.rt.com/russia/622537-israeli-settlers-attack-russian-diplomats/

Why the hell is she puzzled by this? The Israelis do whatever they want, to anybody- does not matter if you are a Russian diplomat-- WAKE-UP!!!!!

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World War Now:
🇲🇩⚡- BREAKING: Moldovan court sentences Evghenia Gutsul, Governor of the separatist region of Gagauzia, Moldova, to seven years in prison for "financing banned-opposition party Shor with Russian money."

🇺🇸 - Trump endorses a Vance/Rubio ticket for the 2028 presidential election.

Follow: @ThermopylaeNews

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister is using his close relationship with both leaders, President Trump and Russia's Putin, to ease tensions between Washington and Moscow, according to Israeli Channel 11, Kan11.

Kan11 says the reason for the increased number of calls between Netanyahu-Putin is to mediate between the US and Russia. The White House was informed of the calls.

🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- The 70th anniversary of the European Rabbis Conference, which is held every two years, will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, this year. The event will start on November 4th and end on the 8th, with over 500+ rabbis planned to participate.

This will be ...

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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