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Hillary on Iran
John Aravosis gets it right: So in the space of 12 hours, Hillary has twice suggested that she’d nuke Iran, but now her staff is saying that she didn’t mean to imply that she would. Maybe she’s just 60 years old and tired, like her husband said she was when she repeatedly lied about Bosnia for four months. So long
“Message force multipliers”
I’m heading out of town for a few days, so I’ll hit pause with a link to David Barstow’s phenomenal piece on the Pentagon-run disinformation campaign that has infected nearly all mainstream coverage of the Iraq war. Of course, the story of these self-serving con men posing as “military analysts” on FOX News, CNN, ABC and even on the Op-Ed
The week on disc (16)
In case you missed the last one… Marilyn Mazur & Jan Garbarek, Elixir (ECM) Scott Robinson, Forever Lasting: The Compositions of Thad Jones (Arbors) John Tchicai/Jonas Muller/Nikolaj Munch-Hansen/Kresten Osgood, Coltrane in Spring (ILK) Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Holon (ECM) Vijay Iyer, Tragicomic (Sunnyside) Dave Douglas’s Keystone, Moonshine (Greenleaf)
More China-bashing please
My feelings toward Hillary Clinton and her campaign couldn’t be a lot dimmer, but I have to credit her for an anti-China line so firm that it caused one of her advisors to quit. Richard Baum of UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies accuses Hillary of taking “the low road” on the issue, but she’s done exactly the opposite. On the
On Terence Blanchard
My review of the Terence Blanchard-Spike Lee retrospective at the Kimmel Center, in today’s Inquirer.
South Africa: tide turning?
Since last I noted the disgrace of Thabo Mbeki continuing to shill for Robert Mugabe — and let’s face it, “quiet diplomacy” is a sham when your sole function is to take diplomatic pressure off your thuggish neighbor to the north — it seems the tide may have turned in South Africa. ANC officials are taking a different line from
Hillary’s glass house
Oh my goodness, of course, she’s just being helpful. By rehashing the GOP’s phony links between Obama and the Weather Underground, she’s just pointing out that Obama might be headed for trouble in the fall. So better to back-stab him now. That way, the road is clear for right-wingers to flog Hillary’s old ties to a Communist-run Berkeley law firm
IAJE in freefall
Having attended my share of annual IAJE conferences, and having published Willard Jenkins’s critical account of the Toronto confab in the latest issue of Jazz Notes, I’m obliged to note that the 2009 Seattle conference has been canceled. The IAJE is in a state of financial collapse and its recently canned director, Bill McFarlin, has turned out to be the