Octave downloads
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio As promised, we’ve finally managed to get the programmers to figure out how to make downloads available for Octave Records. If you are interested in purchasing a download version of Don Grusin’s Out of Thin…
Front row seats
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Don Grusin’s great disc Out of Thin Air is my favorite example of how a piano should sound. It is by far the best piano recording I have in my arsenal of great recordings. And yet,…
Kitty Block and Sara Amundson: Trump’s gift to hunters: You can kill hibernating black bear mothers and their cubs in their dens on Alaskan National Preserve
In Trump’s latest blow to America’s wildlife, the government wants to allow the worst trophy hunting practices on public lands in Alaska. By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson / Independent Media Institute Our nation’s iconic wildlife is under attack in…
OPINION: Vote them OUT in SVG
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. July 12, 2020 Almost every country in the world, including the UK and the US, has a citizenship by investment program except SVG, North Korea, China, and most of ALBA including Cuba and Venezuela. Why do…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Re-thinking CARICOM development model after COVID-19
By Sir Ronald Sanders From OECS Communications Friday, July 10, 2020 — (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth…
OPINION: Why the Shareholders, Directors and Defacto Directors should pay LIAT’s debts
By Nathen’ Jolly’ Green. July 09, 2020 LIAT has been traded for many years while making massive losses, and those losses were compounded by the gigantic taxes lodged against local air travel by the shareholder governments, despite many warnings about…
The U.S. and UK are a wrecking ball crew against the pillars of Internationalism
By Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute On January 9, 2020, Ambassador Karen Pierce—the United Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations—spoke at a meeting on the UN Charter. “Nobody could accuse the founding members of a lack of ambition when they…
Raising the age of military enlistment
Peter Polack and Jack McCain The following is the introduction for the book “Only the Young Shall Die” by Peter Polack and Jack McCain. As counter-intuitive as it would appear, the average age of young men dying in combat has…
Martin: Hot temperatures can provoke tempers
By Melissaq Martin Sizzling sunshine, high humidity, sweltering sweat. The recent heatwave scorches our brain and melts our underwear. Why do soaring temperatures lead to soaring tempers? Body Reactions According to WebMD, for a typical adult, body temperature can be…
Tin ears
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio For years I have heard the term tin eared referring to someone without a lot of hearing acuity—the opposite of a golden eared listener. In fact, the dictionary defines tin ear (plural tin ears) (idiomatic) Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate…