This Week with David Rovics

Chet Gardiner has made some powerful improvements to the song, with various instruments.  The genocide of the people of Gaza is happening now, via famine and disease.  One thing you can do right now …

The Israeli plan is to kill everyone in Gaza -- "to holocaust them," as Netanyahu's advisors say live on national TV, in Hebrew.

I had a good time chatting the other day with the hosts of the podcast, Unfinished Business with Paul & Rob. We talked about Gaza and music and other things.  The interview with me begins 12 minutes …

A few thoughts from my recent travels in Canada and Denmark.

Entering the third month of Israel's total embargo on Gaza, the starvation has begun.

Americans Who Tell the Truth -- americanswhotellthetruth.org -- is a brilliant project that's been going for decades now, which involves portraits painted by Robert Shetterley of many wonderful peopl…

Do it well, and you might just grow a movement. Do it badly, and you can kill it in the bud.

Some of us were just going for the bread and circus, but when we went there, we found neither.

After our visit to Mexico, we spent several days in southern California and three weeks between England and Scotland.

Almost a month into Israel's complete blockade of food, water, medicine or anything else getting into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military orders mass evacuations of Palestinians to an unknown des…

The only groups that are actually trying to enforce international law when it comes to Israel's war crimes are organizations that are illegal in many western countries to say anything nice about, or …

Normally the ruling elite is supposed to be able to distinguish between reality and their own propaganda, even if most of the commoners believe it. With the new administration, it appears that these …

A song about what Kamala and I have been doing for the past several days in Mexico City.

ICE agents taking orders directly from the top and disappearing a student activist with no warrant, no due process, canceling his green card and holding him incommunicado in an unknown location, this…

Some thoughts on that majority element of top-quintile US society that persistently refers to itself as "the middle class."

Another fab remix from Chet Gardiner, of a song that's at least as relevant as it was a few days ago, when I wrote it, after that meeting in the Oval Office.

The Ministry of Culture is thrilled to be kicking off our 2025 bout of touring with the St. Patrick's Weekend events in Mexico City! We're also looking forward to LA, London, Glasgow and elsewhere af…

I'm constantly unable to decide whether they're brilliantly theatrical, Machiavellian coup-plotters or just bumbling billionaires whose emotional development stalled out a long time ago.