I've thought that for some time. Seeing her give 'commentary' in a Stevie Nicks documentary (she was so insulting and held Lindsey Buckingham up as the ideal -- so much for her supposed feminism).
Kat reviewed Bob Dylan's ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS (link under album title goes to Kat's review). She was planning to also review Neil Young's album -- planning to do it over this past weekend. Then she realized Diana Ross' new album was out and also that Neil was releasing tracks from the vault and this wasn't an album of him commenting on current times.
"Kat's Korner: Diana Ross hits the dance floor" is the review she did instead.
As an African-American man, I see a lot of racism. Especially from the Karens -- a sub-group of White women who are racist and act entitled.
That is who Ann Powers is: A Karen.
I realized that when I saw her latest go up tonight at NPR. Here's the headline "With New Albums, Bob Dylan, Neil Young And Willie Nelson Are As Relevant As Ever" and, despite him not being mentioned in the headline, she also includes the late John Prine.
When did Ann Powers review Diana?
Diana's new album goes to that headline, with new album SHE is a relevant as ever.
This album, SUPERTONIC MIXES, includes four tracks that have hit number one on the dance charts since 2018.
Despite the fact that Diana actually fits the headline, White Ann Powers ignores her.
Now Bob Dylan's the only one listed who is a legend along the lines of Diana. I like Neil Young but he and David Crosby combined aren't equal to Diana. Diana's front line -- like Bob, the Beatles, Aretha, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, etc.
She's beyond legendary.
And NPR listeners know her work. So why isn't she included. Is it because she's Black, Ann Powers?
Diana releases an album and Ann and NPR ignore it -- relegating it to a non-discussion, just a list of 'other' albums released.
I'm tired of it.
White Karens, grow the f**k up. I'm tried of your bulls**t. I'm tired of your pretending that Diana Ross doesn't meet the criteria.
The criteria is racism.
No one has had Diana's career. Not even Bob Dylan. And for NPR to continue to ignore her and to act like her latest album -- containing four new numbers ones on the dance chart -- isn't worth noting is the height of racism.
Ann Powers is a racist and she needs to be called for her racism.
That's also true of NPR.
They will focus on a John Prine -- who the f**k care about John Prine? He wrote one damn song that some people know because other people covered it -- Carly, Bonnie and Linda, for example.
Yet they will ignore Diana Ross.
She broke the color line back in the sixties and that's the real crime that racist Ann Powers won't forgive her for.
Right now, we're supposedly realizing that Black Lives Matter and that diversity matters. But Ann ignored an African-American legend to promote four White men: Bob Dylan, John Prine, Neil Young and Willie Nelson.
NPR has always had a problem reaching African-Americans -- it's the s**t like what Ann Powers just pulled that ensures that we know NPR doesn't care about Black people.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Tuesday, June 30, 2020. "Weak" is the word (that you heard) when describing Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
Starting with CURRENCY 365.
Jaber
Al Jaberi, an Iraqi member of parliament, told The National that the
CTS raid on Kataib Hezbollah was an attempt to exert state authority and
a test to see what the reaction might be.
"What was all of that two and three weeks ago?"
He
is correct. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi did announce that he had
ordered the salaries released a few weeks back. He got good press for
that. But nothing happened. And now he's announcing again that he's
ordering the government to release the salaries (to pay the
employees).
"What are you talking about?"
the host asks stunned that the national security forces might be put
under the supervision of a puppet of Nouri al-Maliki. "It's getting bad
guys. Mustafa's done," he observes.
Kataib Hezbollah in
Iraq is riding high after humiliating the Iraqi Prime Minister this
week. After 14 of its members were arrested and then released it held a
victory party burning images of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi and
telling pro-Iranian media that it will never give up the “resistance
weapons.” This is similar to the way Hezbollah in Lebanon describes its
need to have a massive arsenal of weapons and be a state within a state.
The Iranian IRGC model now appears to be moving full steam ahead as
groups like Iraqi Hezbollah seek to have a parallel armed force.
Kataib
Hezbollah is a group of hard core pro-Iranian cadres who support the
Iranian agenda. They are also part of the Popular Mobilization Units
(PMU) a group of militias that have become an official paramilitary
force in Iraq. They are accused of extrajudicial killings and running
secret prisons. They fought ISIS but instead of disbanding Iran pushed
former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to make them an official
force. They are now a cross between Lebanese Hezbollah and the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran. They have fired dozens of rockets at
US forces in Iraq, killing three members of the Coalition earlier this
year. The US has carried out airstrikes against them.
They
are burning pictures of him, they are "humiliating the Iraqi Prime
Minister." Get why we've focused for weeks now on how weak Mustafa
comes off?
From Friday's snapshot:
Other news out of Iraq involves a raid.
AFP reports, "Iraqi security forces arrested more than a dozen pro-Iran fighters
overnight, in their first raid against those accused of anti-US rocket
attacks, Iraqi officials told AFP early Friday. Elite fighters from Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service raided a
headquarters in southern Baghdad used by Kataeb Hezbollah, a pro-Iran
faction also identified as Brigade 45 of the Hashed al-Shaabi military
forces." Mina Aldroubi (THE NATIONAL) adds:
“Indeed the reaction by the so-called axis of resistance was strong,
where their armed and hysterical response revealed a lot about them,
their capabilities and their non-compliance with the laws of the state,”
Mr Al Jaberi said.
And ALJAZEERA notes:
Al Jazeera's Simona Foltyn, reporting from Baghdad,
said Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Service seized at least 10 rockets
during the operation, which was "carried out an in effort to pre-empt an
impending rocket attack on the Green Zone and Baghdad International
Airport, both of which house US troops".
"Subsequently, dozens of armed Kataib Hezbollah fighters arrived in
the Green Zone and laid siege to one of the buildings belonging to the
Counter Terrorism Service, demanding the release of the detainees,
claiming they were arrested illegally without an arrest warrant," she
said.
And now some are released. AP notes,
"The officials offered varying accounts of the number of detainees who
had been released. A militia official said 11 among the 14 arrested on
Thursday were released on bail and three suspects remained in custody.
Two government officials did not specify the number and said some were
released on bail. One government official said all were released except
one prime suspect." Arabic social media insists that those freed were
freed due to former prime minister and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki. Yoni Ben Menachem (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) offers:
Iraqi law prohibits local militias from receiving directives from
abroad. Since their establishment, pro-Iranian militias in Iraq have
committed war crimes, violated Iraqi law, and become a threat to the
security of the state and its citizens.
The “Hizbullah Brigades” issued a statement accusing Mustafa al-Kadhimi of cooperating with the United States and that while he served as Iraqi intelligence chief, he helped the United States assassinate Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The brigades promised that they were lying in wait for him for his deeds.
Even before he was appointed prime minister, Kadhimi denied these accusations, and he met with Lebanese Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah in order to receive a “Kosher certification,” which would allow him to be appointed Iraq’s new prime minister.
The “Hizbullah Brigades” issued a statement accusing Mustafa al-Kadhimi of cooperating with the United States and that while he served as Iraqi intelligence chief, he helped the United States assassinate Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The brigades promised that they were lying in wait for him for his deeds.
Even before he was appointed prime minister, Kadhimi denied these accusations, and he met with Lebanese Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah in order to receive a “Kosher certification,” which would allow him to be appointed Iraq’s new prime minister.
Let's note a US House Rep who's bought into a whisper campaign ('officials -- unnamed -- say') from THE NEW YORK TIMES. US House Rep Jackie Speier:
If true, the report that Putin put bounties on US servicemembers' heads is an act of war & demands a proportional response. The fact that POTUS has still NOT been briefed is unbelievable. Remember when 1 US contractor was killed in Iraq? Trump demanded Soleimani’s assassination.
We're
not going to run through the loon's conspiracy plagued mind. We are
going to note the last two sentences. First off, 1 US contractor was
killed. Second, many were injured. Third, it wasn't one attack. It
was a series of attacks that led to the attack where one died.
What exactly would Jackie Speier have done?
She
clearly thinks Donald Trump was wrong. So what would she have done?
Probably nothing. She's so stupid that she doesn't even realize it was a
series of escalating attacks.
And those attacks? They actually qualify as "an act of war." Does the idiot not get that?
I
know, I know, Soleimani peed rainbows and roses grew out his butt.
Because Donald Trump assassinated him, the knee jerk reaction for the
left -- faux and otherwise -- was to rush to defend the 'poet.' He was a
terrorist. Iraq's LGBT community suffered severely because of him.
I'm sorry, Jackie, that you're too damn stupid to do the work required
before you rush in to take the opposite of whatever stand Trump takes.
Soleimani
was evil. He terrorized Sunnis in Iraq. Should he have been killed?
We can debate ethics and international law, if you'd like. But that was
requires brains and education. Much easier to scream, "Bad Trump! Bad
Trump!"
That's not a defense of Donald Trump or
a defense of assassination. While I won't cry that Soleimani is dead, I
don't think the rules of engagement were followed and I don't believe
international law was either. (Supporter of Donald would point out --
rightly -- that the US rarely follows international law when engaging in
armed conflicts.)
What I'm saying is that the
discussion is far too complex for the idiots who've tried to take the
lead on it. And I've been saying that since the fairy tale of Soleimani
sprouted in the hours after his death -- you'll note that I pruned the
link list on the side and we stopped noting a number of left -- genuine
left, not faux left -- people because of their need to spread lies about
how amazing Soleimani was.
He wasn't. And I won't abandon the Iraqis who suffered, certainly not Iraq's gay community. He terrorized them.
Jackie's only the latest idiot. I used to expect so much more from her.
But,
remember, America, at election time, Jackie Speier is okay with attacks
on American forces and American contractors (both were under repeated
attack). That's what her Tweet makes clear. It also makes clear that
she stands with terrorists. That's what Soleimani was.
Jackie's
such an idiot that while she's running for re-election, she Tweets
something so stupid that her opponent (Ran Petel) could easily make an
issue of.
Idiots? I love the
idiot defending the Turkish invasion of Iraq online who keeps hectoring
people that what they don't know is that the PKK started in Iraq and
it's a new group and other garbage that flaunts the man's ignorance. He
really needed to stop Tweeting but he (wrongly) felt that he had so
much to share.
Here are the basic facts on the PKK as . Aaron Hess (INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVIEW) described them in 2008,
"The PKK emerged in 1984 as a major force in response to Turkey's
oppression of its Kurdish population. Since the late 1970s, Turkey has
waged a relentless war of attrition that has killed tens of thousands
of Kurds and driven millions from their homes. The Kurds are the
world's largest stateless population -- whose main population
concentration straddles Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria -- and have been
the victims of imperialist wars and manipulation since the colonial
period. While Turkey has granted limited rights to the Kurds in recent
years in order to accommodate the European Union, which it seeks to
join, even these are now at risk." The Kurdistan Regional Government in
Iraq has been a concern to Turkey because they fear that if it ever
moves from semi-autonomous to fully independent -- such as if Iraq was
to break up into three regions -- then that would encourage the Kurdish
population in Turkey. For that reason, Turkey is overly interested in
all things Iraq. So much so that they signed an agreement with the US
government in 2007 to share intelligence which the Turkish military has
been using when launching bomb raids. However, this has not prevented
the loss of civilian life in northern Iraq. Aaron Hess noted, "The
Turkish establishment sees growing Kurdish power in Iraq as one step
down the road to a mass separatist movement of Kurds within Turkey
itself, fighting to unify a greater Kurdistan. In late October 2007,
Turkey's daily newspaper Hurriyet accused the prime minister of the
KRG, Massoud Barzani, of turning the 'Kurdish dream' into a 'Turkish
nightmare'."
Turkey is currently bombing Iraq
and has sent ground soldiers in --- this is a violation of international
law and this is a violation of Iraq's national sovereignty. Mustafa's
inability to call this out has also led to him looking weak in the eyes
of the Iraqi people.
it doesnt matter why turkey is in iraq that isnt how a state is suppose to act, turkey invites hamas leaders all the time to turkey should israel invade turkey? its a stupid argument.
Congressional pressure is building to reprimand Turkey for its military campaign against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq.
The Turkish military is carrying out two offensives—Operation Claw-Eagle and Operation Claw-Tiger—aimed at rooting out Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The operation has struck rural PKK hideouts as well as populated areas, including the Makhmour Refugee Camp and the Yazidi community of Mount Sinjar.
“I strongly condemn the Turkish air strikes & ground operations near Kurdish & Yazidi civilian areas,” Rep. Eliot Engel (D–N.Y.) announced in a Friday statement. “This type of reckless endangerment of civilian lives is unacceptable, especially for a NATO ally.”
Engel, the outgoing head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called on Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to stop the operation “immediately.”
Rep. Jim Cooper (D–Tenn.) added on Saturday that he was “disturbed” by the operation. Cooper represents Nashville, a city with a large Kurdish community.
The lawmakers’ comments came after a widely-shared video showed an alleged Turkish bomb striking a lake while a family played nearby. Local journalist Jîl Şwanî claims that the video showed his brother and nephew in Kunamasi, a town in Sulaymaniyah Governorate.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, appointed by Congress to investigate human rights worldwide, condemned the offensive for its effects on Yazidi genocide survivors.
The Turkish military is carrying out two offensives—Operation Claw-Eagle and Operation Claw-Tiger—aimed at rooting out Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The operation has struck rural PKK hideouts as well as populated areas, including the Makhmour Refugee Camp and the Yazidi community of Mount Sinjar.
“I strongly condemn the Turkish air strikes & ground operations near Kurdish & Yazidi civilian areas,” Rep. Eliot Engel (D–N.Y.) announced in a Friday statement. “This type of reckless endangerment of civilian lives is unacceptable, especially for a NATO ally.”
Engel, the outgoing head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called on Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to stop the operation “immediately.”
Rep. Jim Cooper (D–Tenn.) added on Saturday that he was “disturbed” by the operation. Cooper represents Nashville, a city with a large Kurdish community.
The lawmakers’ comments came after a widely-shared video showed an alleged Turkish bomb striking a lake while a family played nearby. Local journalist Jîl Şwanî claims that the video showed his brother and nephew in Kunamasi, a town in Sulaymaniyah Governorate.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, appointed by Congress to investigate human rights worldwide, condemned the offensive for its effects on Yazidi genocide survivors.
In 2020 alone, the country has played host to a cascade of domestic
militia rocket attacks, a spike in US-Iran tension that brought the
wider region to the brink of war, and economic debilitation caused in
part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the collapse of global oil prices, in
part by long-term state economic mismanagement.
To make matters worse, Turkey launched an air campaign dubbed Operation Claw-Eagle on June 15, striking suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in the Kurdistan Region and disputed territories of northern Iraq. It launched ground invasion Operation Claw-Tiger two days later, putting Turkish commando boots on Iraqi ground.
A day after Turkish airstrikes began, Iran struck areas of the Kurdistan Region close to its border, targeting suspected positions of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and PKK. Media affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported that the Turkish and Iranian airstrikes were conducted with coordination.
Iraq’s government released a statement last week calling on Turkey to end its operations. Turkish ambassador to Iraq Fatih Yildiz has been summoned twice by Iraq's foreign ministry to answer for his country's air and ground campaigns. The Iraqi government has yet to release a statement condemning the violation of sovereignty by Iranian artillery, though it did summon the Iranian ambassador to answer for the strikes on June 18.
Despite condemnations of foreign operations by the governments of federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, the strikes have the consent of both, Iraqi security analyst Husham al-Hashimi told Rudaw English on Friday.
“Baghdad and Erbil have both given Turkey and Iran the green light to conduct airstrikes,” Hashimi said.
To make matters worse, Turkey launched an air campaign dubbed Operation Claw-Eagle on June 15, striking suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in the Kurdistan Region and disputed territories of northern Iraq. It launched ground invasion Operation Claw-Tiger two days later, putting Turkish commando boots on Iraqi ground.
A day after Turkish airstrikes began, Iran struck areas of the Kurdistan Region close to its border, targeting suspected positions of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) and PKK. Media affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported that the Turkish and Iranian airstrikes were conducted with coordination.
Iraq’s government released a statement last week calling on Turkey to end its operations. Turkish ambassador to Iraq Fatih Yildiz has been summoned twice by Iraq's foreign ministry to answer for his country's air and ground campaigns. The Iraqi government has yet to release a statement condemning the violation of sovereignty by Iranian artillery, though it did summon the Iranian ambassador to answer for the strikes on June 18.
Despite condemnations of foreign operations by the governments of federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, the strikes have the consent of both, Iraqi security analyst Husham al-Hashimi told Rudaw English on Friday.
“Baghdad and Erbil have both given Turkey and Iran the green light to conduct airstrikes,” Hashimi said.
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