Hear Leonard Cohen's Final Interview

Through the gates of hell: Trump as America's first declinist president

Land of the free?

This is how America ends. https://t.co/hF7REE9KAi

— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) November 12, 2016

History of The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (Narrated by Leonard Cohen)

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

R.I.P. Monkey (August 2003 - November 2016)

Mosul 2016

Carrying her cat Lulu in her purse, a displaced Iraqi woman safely reaches a checkpoint east of Mosul after escaping ISIS
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John Gray: The closing of the liberal mind

Ray BLK ft SG Lewis - Chill Out

Meet the Gully Queens, the Transgender Women Defying Jamaica’s Culture of Homophobia

Oh FFS!

...Returning home to Trump Tower from the White House may not be Mr. Trump’s only embrace of the familiar. His aides say he has also expressed interest in continuing to hold the large rallies that were a staple of his candidacy. He likes the instant gratification and adulation that the cheering crowds provide, and his aides are discussing how they might accommodate his demand

Blood, Sweat and Tears: Medieval Literature, Cambridge, and Leonard Cohen

Privacy experts fear Donald Trump running global surveillance network

The end of the world as we know it

How America Got Trumped

Ale Damiani: M.A.M.O.N. - Latinos VS Donald Trump

M.A.M.O.N. (Monitor Against Mexicans Over Nationwide)

Night Music #119: Leonard Cohen, Sonny Rollins, Ken Nordine, Was (Not Was) (1989)

Nick Cave on Leonard Cohen

'I discovered Leonard Cohen with Songs Of Love And Hate. I listened to this record for hours in a friend’s house. I was very young and I believe this was the first record that really had an effect on me. In the past, I only listened to my brother’s records. I liked what he liked, followed him like a sheep. Leonard Cohen was the first one I discovered by myself. He is the symbol of my musical independence. I remember these other guys that came to my friend’s house that thought Songs of Love and Hate was too depressing. I’ve realized that this ‘depression’ theory was ridiculous.
“The sadness of Cohen was inspirer, it gave me a lot of energy. I always remember all this when someone says that my records are morbid or depressing'

Painting by Ben Smith

'There’s a crack in everything/ that’s how the light gets in'

Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light

A pattern emerging

Trump supporters in Russia unveil triptych portraits of Putin, Trump and Le Pen. In case you were in any doubt as to the trend here. pic.twitter.com/s5BPhejLHz

— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) November 9, 2016

Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen (July 2016)

Leonard Cohen managed that rare thing: to talk with clarity about death

Leonard Cohen R.I.P.

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month

In Memory of

Private ARTHUR JOHN HADDOCK

2766529, 6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

who died age 20

on 24 April 1944

Son of Robert Arthur and Catherine Haddock,

of Orrell, Bootle, Lancashire.

Remembered with honour

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

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Friendly As A Hand Grenade indeed

Gee Vaucher: Introspective

Gee Vaucher's artwork 'Oh America' and the story behind the Daily Mirror's historic US election front page

JK Flesh - Secret Thirteen Mix 200

Info/Download

How Half Of America Lost Its Fucking Mind

Colbert tries to make sense of it all

Seth Mayers

US election 2016: It's not about racism or sexism, it's about class warfare

El Grafico (Mexico)

No Alternative (But To Fight) On-U Sound Mix

The Can Project featuring Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Malcolm Mooney and Thurston Moore Live In London 2017

Founding member Irmin Schmidt premieres an orchestral reinterpretation of classic Can material alongside new work with the London Symphony Orchestra, before an all-star band of former Can members and long-time admirers pay tribute to their pioneering music.
Assembling their music through improvisation and studio editing, Can’s writing process resembled collage. Tonight, Can founder Irmin Schmidt takes that approach to their entire oeuvre, conducting the world premiere of his piece An homage to Can, written with Gregor Schwellenbach, which weaves together quotations and abstractions of some of the band’s most renowned pieces.
After an extended interval screening of Can’s 1972 performance at Cologne Sporthalle, the second half of the show brings together a supergroup led by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), featuring ex-Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit, as well as Can’s first singer Malcolm Mooney, realising and reinterpreting the band’s music.
Laying the foundations of what came to be known as Krautrock, Can became one of the most influential avant-rock groups of all time, and echoes of their work is audible in everything from Joy Division, to Radiohead, to Kanye West. Can combined the deconstructed rock’n’roll of The Velvet Underground, the determined rhythmic propulsion of Sly & the Family Stone, and the appetite for studio experimentation of their former teacher Karlheinz Stockhausen to create a new kind of rock music – something avant-garde and groovy, both wildly experimental and utterly compelling.
The show will be preceded by a Q&A with Rob Young, author of a new book devoted to Can – one-part biography, one part memoir by Schmidt himself
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Give Me Justice (Oh America)

Art by Gee Vaucher. Words by Penny Rimbaud

Keith Rowe as per usual nails it

...and you thought 2016 couldn't get any worse?

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America. What the FUCK have you done?

I'm Afraid of Americans

I don't think firing Beiersdorfer will fix things