This Week with David Rovics

Weekly 5-minute (or so) syndicated musical commentaries on history and current events, available for anyone to stream, download or include as part of any broadcast.  You can subscribe to the podcast by searching for This Week with David Rovics wherever you get your podcasts.

I also post them on Soundcloud.

For broadcasters, This Week with David Rovics is available via the Pacifica Audioport or as a weekly email attachment (upon request).

This Week with David Rovics BLOG

The transcript to each episode can be found here.

• Armistice Day Centennial November 7, 2018
  On November 11th, 1918, the most deadly, most massive, most mechanized, most extended period of carnage heretofore known to humankind finally sputtered to a very temporary end. Tens of millions of men mowed each other down systematically with rapid-fire weapons of all kinds, which all the main warring parties had been investing in in an ongoing arms race for […]
• Boys and Girls October 31, 2018
  Recently the Trump-Pence administration has once again been taking aim at the trans community. They seem to move randomly from attacking one marginalized community or another. Each time they launch a new attack like this, it seems they are simultaneously using it to put up a smokescreen, hiding some incident of massive financial corruption or a new deregulat […]
• The Corbyn Factor October 24, 2018
  I'm currently on a tour around various countries in Europe. My first stop was England. My visit to England reconfirmed what I had witnessed on my last several tours of England. That is, there is in England a deep concern over the rise of the right in Europe and America, and a deep concern over how the ever-unfolding Brexit process is going to play out. […]

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And the Critics Raved…

Counterpoint — Interview with Scott Harris, mostly about This Week with David Rovics podcast