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David Yearsley

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Post Parton: Cloning Dolly

Dolly isn’t dead much more than a week and the tribute songs are pouring in. Some of these are lofted by earthly voices that hymn the departed, now...

05.09.2026 4

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MELANIA’s Music

MELANIA made it to Berlin but was only showing at a single early-afternoon time. Brandishing my coveted CounterPunch press card, I tried to talk my...

06.02.2026 20

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Immigrant Songs

With the New Cold War heating up, and American citizens under siege at home, it’s no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can still claim to...

16.01.2026 40

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Read the Room

Seen from within its courtyard off busy Euston Road in London, the British Library is meant to look like a stately ocean liner pulling out to sea...

19.12.2025 20

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New Bach, Old Doubts

Bach is back, bigger than ever and just in time for the holiday buying season in this 275th year since his death. The bicenterquasquigenary Bach buzz...

29.11.2025 20

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Walls of Shame, Hall of Fame: Barenboim in Berlin

The Berlin Wall was breached on the night of November 9th, 1989. The German Democratic Republic was done. East Berliners poured through the suddenly...

18.10.2025 20

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Tongues of Flame on the Welsh Coast

The Pentecost Sunday service had just concluded. We were on the red stone porch outside the entrance to St. David’s Cathedral in the city of that...

22.06.2025 30

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