God, Family, and Country
Filmmaker Irv Drasnin interviews Sidney Rittenberg, an American citizen who became the only foreign member of China’s Communist Party. During China’s Cultural Revolution, one of the most tragic and least understood political upheavals of the 20th century, Mao Zedong’s call to “make revolution” was answered by tens of millions of Chinese and one American. Curiously, Rittenberg … Read more
Fentanyl-related overdose deaths started rising in 2012. By 2016, they eclipsed deaths from heroin and diverted prescription pain pills. By 2017, fentanyl was found in more than 50 percent of opioid-related overdose deaths, and by 2022, as we know, it was involved in roughly 90 percent. 150 Americans drop dead every day from illicit fentanyl. … Read more
Brendan Kavanagh, also known as Dr. K, is a British pianist who specializes in improvised boogie-woogie music. He combines this genre with classical, jazz, blues, rock & roll, and traditional Irish music themes. Kavanagh regularly takes to London’s St Pancras station to play, but yesterday, he was attacked by entitled Chinese ”tourists” while doing so. He … Read more
In the documentary “Empire of Dust”, director Bram Van Paesschen explores the fraught relationship between the Congolese and the Chinese, as shown through their efforts to build a road between two major cities in the DRC, wryly observed with humorous interstitials from the Congolese radio DJ invented by Van Paesschen himself. China endeavors to take … Read more