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The shooting of John Lennon in 1980 was staged, or at least he didn’t immediately die. Or at least that’s the premise that launches a hilarious work of fiction called “Life After Death (For Beginners)” by Michael Gerber, in which — among other things — Lennon tries to discover who killed him and whether it was for money or politics or love.

I guess it doesn’t sound very hilarious, and I’m guessing that Yoko Ono, who has been a friend to the peace read more

And here’s a new review:

“Prophecy itself, despite the theatrical legacy, is as explosive as this week’s headlines—literally. This is because, besides Iraq, the play has the temerity to give voice to a pro-Palestinian stance—and we know what happens to people who take such positions: They’re reviled and drummed out of the press corps, as veteran reporter Helen Thomas was, after a crotchety answer to an on-the-spot question, which no one needed a Ph.D. to realize wasn’t read more

For today’s $5 Friday, I’m giving $5 to SPLIT THIS ROCK. 

Carolyn Forche reads “The Museum Of Stones”

Galway Kinnell recites Whitman’s “To the States”

Galway Kinnell recites “Death Fugue”

By David Swanson

I wrote a review of Karen Malpede’s new play “Prophecy” when I had only read but not yet seen it. Karen read the review and invited me to lead the first in a series of talk-back discussions following performances in New York, and I did so on Wednesday. For that incredible privilege I’m glad I wrote that early review, but I’m sorry it was so insufficient as an attempt to convey the intensity of the phenomenon that is “Prophecy.”

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So say Lionel Ritchie and Quincy Jones, and with much gratitude toward God, in this video.

And, by the way, a bunch of American millionaires really are not the world. Charity from people who are allowing their government to destroy and exploit on unprecedented scale is pathetic enough, but thanking God for a timely tragedy is a little bit too much.

Nice song, though.

We bomb the world
We kill the children
We are the ones who let the wars go on
So let’s stop bullsh–ing
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re ending our own lives
We’ll never make a brighter day through charity

TAKE ACTION.

By David Swanson

“Prophecy” is the title of a new play by Karen Malpede, and I’m here to attempt the unamerican task of telling you to see it without telling you it’s a comedy. In fact, I’m going to confess that I had to take a break from it and recover before I could write about it. I felt like I’d taken a blow with an enormous sledge hammer, even though I knew that a whole orchestra of smaller instruments had produced what I was feeling.

It was not a bad read more

By David Swanson

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution,” said Emma Goldman, who might also have said “If we don’t dance, not enough people will work long and hard enough in our revolution.” This is one of the two most useful quotes for Americans right now, the other being another remark by Emma Goldman: “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”

But when people ask you, as they tend to ask you, “Shouldn’t read more