"Her 1973 album I Hate the Capitalist System is brilliantly blunt, an overlooked gem, with Working Class Woman being a trenchant protest song. The album feels ever more relevant now."
“Capitalism has made things worse than they were then, sure,” she said. “It’s increased economic insecurity and that’s why we find people turning to Trump and conspiracy theories and religion, the stuff that gives them easy answers. As a Marxist, I believe that a period of socialism has to follow. If I’m wrong, well, I won’t be here but our world can’t survive. Capitalism and climate change have created a crisis"
'In US folk and blues circles, Dane was venerated for breaking down racial and gender barriers and never compromising.
“She’s always been a role model and a hero of mine – musically and politically,” Bonnie Raitt, one of Dane’s many famous admirers, has said"
'Dane focused on activism: vocal in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements. In 1966, she was one of the first US artists to tour post-revolutionary Cuba, then sang in North Vietnam as the war raged. All the while Dane continued to champion Black artists, recording with Lightnin’ Hopkins then launching psych-soul band the Chambers Brothers at Newport folk festival: the 1966 album Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers is possibly the first US album cover to feature a white woman and Black men as equals."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/21/barbara-dane-bob-dylan-folk-blues-activism
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'It is, unfortunately, not uncommon for FARA registrants to make campaign contributions to the members of Congress they’re contacting on behalf of foreign interests,”
Ben Freeman, director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, told The Intercept.
“And, even if that contribution occurs on the exact same day the meeting takes place, it’s perfectly legal.”
"In its five-year-long case, WhatsApp this month made sweeping allegations about NSO’s refusal to produce internal email communications and
Pegasus source code."
“NSO’s discovery violations were willful, and unfairly skew the record on virtually every key issue in the case, from the merits, to jurisdiction, to damages, making a full and fair trial on the facts impossible,” the company said in the filing
'Last year, NSO asked the court for a protective order to insulate them from the discovery process under Israeli law, which was denied. At a hearing this February, the court said it “would not feel reluctant to impose sanctions” if NSO failed to meet its discovery obligations."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/28/the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me
"As NSO continues to face problems in the U.S., the High Court in London ruled this month that a case against Saudi Arabia for its use of Pegasus can move forward, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. (The Saudi government did not respond to a request for comment.)"
"The ruling came after four human rights defenders who were hacked with Pegasus on British soil submitted a report to the Metropolitan Police last month asking them to open an investigation and prosecute the company.
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/pegasus-spyware-nso-israel-lobbying-republicans /
'A hack this month on the world’s largest archive of the internet — whose mission is to provide “universal access to all knowledge” — has compromised millions of users’ information and forced a temporary shutdown of its services."
"In May, the Internet Archive saw its first attack since its founding in 1996, Kahle told The Washington Post, and intermittent outages have followed."
"Since 2020, the Internet Archive has been dogged by lawsuits over its digitization of copyrighted books and music. Kahle told the Post the costly fines from the lawsuits could amount to a death blow for the archive."
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/20/nx-s1-5159000/internet-archive-hack-leak-wayback-machine
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"sea level rise is expected to break thousands of Miami’s septic systems, spreading human waste into the streets and Biscayne Bay."
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