Jeffrey St. Clair

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

What were once Death Squads are now "police"... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @pdxlawgrrrl: "The U.S. has encouraged the development of aggressive and militarized law enforcement forces throughout Latin America, an… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I've always been this boring. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

For 4 years I was getting around 200 new followers a month, which seemed ridiculous. Then about a month ago it suddenly fell to 50 a month, which seemed like a more normal number. Now it's sunk to 26 & I'm wondering why Tucker & Glenn aren't ranting about my "shadow banning!" — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Repeat offender... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

You've never had breakfast in New Orleans. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Has it EVER rained in Juarez during Easter? — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

especially among the financial and industrial elites, profiting from slave labor, that I've seen from a Hollywood film. It also features a great performance from a young Ruby Dee in one of her first roles, where she is patronizingly interviewed by a Louisa Mae Alcott-like writer — PolitiTweet.org

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says to a man from Texas. "I just can't believe Texas will secede from the US." The man next to her drawls, "Honey, you got that backwards. The rest of the country will have seceded from Texas." The film contains some of the frankest discussion of northern racism... — PolitiTweet.org

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of Lincoln, by any means necessary, including storming the half-finished capitol, using the Army to intervene, and assassinating him in Baltimore (a real plot). As Powell moves car by car, the speeches get more incendiary. One of my favorite scenes is when a woman from Boston... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I had the same feeling last night while watching the little seen film The Tall Target, directed by the Hollywood lefty Anthony Mann, where Dick Powell is on a night train from NYC to DC filled with various creeps, most notably Adolph Menjou, intent on stopping the inauguration... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LalehKhalili: Reading Lowenthal and Guterman's Prophets of Deceit, and the composite speech of fascist agitators that opens the book co… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

He's going to rat you and Arthur out, Marilyn... — PolitiTweet.org

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From their Left or their Right? — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Rampling looks about 20 in The Damned, where she plays the mother of an 8 year old and a 5 year old, which is Visconti's point (or one of them). — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

If the US really wants "fair" elections, it needs to expand the franchise to every nation with a US military base and every country the US has invaded, droned or orchestrated a coup in. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @DennisThePerrin: So Paul Simon's big accomplishment was making African artists more US corporate friendly? He hated Mandela, based on h… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @LostInFilm: «I am now seventy-seven years old and am convinced that my real work is just beginning. Let us hold out together for the sa… — PolitiTweet.org

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Before or after you send the next US aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait? — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

in an expressionistic style unique for the director, as Bergman and Rossellini's marriage was breaking up. Not a great film, but one that lingers in the mind far longer than any of Andersons... https://t.co/3XIHedqZYd — PolitiTweet.org

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try Rossellini's Fear (aka, Angst), a strange little noir, set and shot in post-war Munich, with Ingrid Bergman (and a brief appearance by Klaus Kinski in one of his first roles). It's a story of adultery and blackmail that was filmed simultaneously in German and Italian... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

I despise the films of Wes Anderson and after enduring The Grand Budapest Hotel (his treacly infantilization of Stefan Zweig), I vowed never to watch another of his cinematic offerings. If you want watch a more faithful film translation of the spirit of Zweig's writings... — PolitiTweet.org

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Progressives endorsing the Mann Act in a rush "to get Gaetz" is one of the more dispiriting, but predictable, political episodes of the year. Excuse me while I drop the needle on Miles Davis' Tribute to Jack Johnson for the next hour... — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

Can you imagine Mifune playing Dirk Bogarde's role in Death in Venice? Me neither. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @wweek: "The escalation of false, anti-homelessness rhetoric keeps reaching astonishingly vitriolic new highs." https://t.co/Dk81v25vw6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @flugennock: Half a dozen self-absorbed brats sharing a NYC apartment none of them could afford in real life, sitting on a big fat couch… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @PatThomas1964: might be the best music biz story ever: (circa early 1970s): Miles Davis and Willie Nelson shared a manager, Neil Reshen… — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

As an antidote to all of the Paul Simon hagiography floating around today, here's Little Steven's demolition of Simon, from which he'll never be, in the spirit of the weekend, resurrected... https://t.co/aEF4pyXuIW — PolitiTweet.org

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in most public spaces. I can't drive from Oregon across the border to California with an apple, an orange, a lemon, a banana or cherries, for fear of spreading into the state that might harm the health of ag industry. Surely similar restrictions can be applied for public health. — PolitiTweet.org

Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

schools and universities and to work in many public sector jobs, including the military. You need to pass a vision, written & driving test to get drivers license and you need a license and insurance to drive. You can't smoke or vape on public (or most private) transport or... — PolitiTweet.org