As the title of Carsie Blanton‘s new album
Love and Rage suggests, the singer-songwriter is a passionate radical. She’s both an ardent romantic when it comes to affairs of the heart and a fervent advocate for the poor and disenfranchised. She combines these disparate elements in the way she sees her place in the world. Blanton wants everyone, including herself, to be free to live and pursue happiness. Her desires are political or sexual. Her revolutionary aims are personal. It’s the instinctual critique that says she (meaning every individual) has as much a right to a perfect world as anybody else. Her job as an artist is to stimulate positive change.
Robert Malley, thinly disguised as an âunnamed State Department official,â informed the media this week that negotiations with Iran in Vienna have one goal âto come back into compliance with the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), all of the JCPOA, and nothing but the JCPOA.â
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This is the same Iran deal that the same Robert Malley negotiated on behalf of President Obama. The result then was that 60 percent of Congress voted against the deal including virtually all Republicans and almost 30 Democrats. Indeed, the deal would have been rejected by the US Senate if it had been properly designated as a treaty.
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Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury hearing the case of Police Officer Derek Chauvin handed down its verdict: Guilty on all three charges.
The verdict wasnât a surprise. Anybody watching the nine-minute video would have had a hard time concluding that Chauvinâs conduct was appropriate police work.
And I suspect most of the country breathed a sigh of relief after the verdict was announced. The rioting that occurred all last year and in recent days would have been on steroids if the verdict had been different.
Sadly, the case is not over. Three more officers are still awaiting trial for their roles in the death of George Floyd.