I remember seeing “West Side Story” at City Center as a high school student in the late 1950s. We all laughed at the Officer Krupke (Danny Wolohan) comic riff by gang members whose satire of pop psychology has them sing, “We are no good because we are misunderstood.” Not so funny now in Ivo van Hove‘s version, with Krupke‘s nasty racism. Krupke holds a gun and aims it at blacks while someone takes his photo with a phone.
Beth Malone plays a terrific, gutsy, leftist Molly Brown who started out illiterate in a western mining town, helped her husband strike it rich in a gold mine deal, and instead of joining the nouveau riche, devoted herself to helping the poor, the union activists at her husband‘s mine and the suffragists. Plus, she managed to survive the Titanic.
The Fault Lines broadcast today is about two main elements of the Browder hoax, an introduction to the story.
First, Browder‘s tax evasion: taking the 5% profits tax
allowed by the Russia-Cyprus double taxation treaty for Cyprus investors when
he wasn‘t entitled to it.
Arthur Kipps (David Acton), a London solicitor in his 60s, is a man with a story that must be told. In fact, the story has been running in London since 1989. It started in a bar in Scarborough, Yorkshire, moved to the West End, and now it‘s in a bar at the Club Car at the McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street in New York.
Feb 25, 2020 – Edward Fitzgerald, QC, on the defense team at the Julian Assange extradition hearings. published a Doughty Street Chambers (London) support of U.S. government’s key Russiagate asset, tax fraudster William Browder.
Feb 24, 2020 – These people were at a rally in New York today, outside the British Consulate at 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. It was one of dozens in cities around the world in a global protest the day of the start of the UK extradition hearing in London.
Feb 20, 2020 – 1200 journalists from 98 countries have released a joint statement today in defence of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, in the lead up to proceedings in a UK court to extradite him to the United States to face the espionage charges. The court case begins on 24 February.
Feb 13, 2020 – On Fault Lines today, I talked about some of Pete Buttigieg‘s corrupt billionaire contributors, the Ziff Brothers. Here are some of the key points.
By Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report, Feb 6, 2020 – Lucy Komisar is an investigative reporter”she publishes The Komisar Scoop. Lucy is my go to person for questions about complex financial frauds, particularly when they involve tax evasion and the offshore haven system.
This is a terrific pop/rock morality tale, a soap opera musical for teens to help them understand their parents. Not bad for parents either. It‘s based on the music of Alanis Morrisette, with a book by Diablo Cody and smart direction by Diane Paulus.
Feb 2, 2020 – What does a self-proclaimed “independent” media regulator do in the UK when one of its member newspapers prints fabrications?
The Times of London ran a lying commentary calling for a UK Magnitsky Law, ie a law that allows the government to charge and punish targeted individuals (in “enemy” countries) without charges, evidence or due process.
Charles Fuller‘s mystery race play, brilliantly directed by Kenny Leon, is still a stunner, nearly 40 years after it debuted on Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize.
Jan 28, 2020 – In December, the Danish Press Board rejected a complaint that tax fraudster William Browder filed against Finans, Finans.dk, a Danish financial news outlet, part of the national daily Jyllands-Posten, that reported on his tax evasion and invented Magnitsky story in a documented exposé by journalists Jette Aagaard and Kristoffer Brahm.
Laura Linney creates a fine portrait of a women seeking to pull a life out of a harrowing childhood in a play that unfortunately descends into soap opera.
The Nation, Jan 22, 2020 – Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, MBK in his homeland, is the most famous Russian “oligarch,” the name given by their compatriots to a handful of men who, when communism fell, turned it into gangster capitalism. With an estimated $16 billion fortune, he became the richest man in Russia. When the rules changed, he didn‘t adapt and spent a decade in prison.
This riveting 1937 play is a combination of Brechtian social criticism and Ionesco political allegory, both à propos for a surreal story about Nazi era Europe. When he wrote the play, Hitler was in power and the Nuremberg laws in effect. There‘s a sense of Germanic gothic.
Dec 19, 2019 – Tom Graham, managing director at Kissinger Associates, spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations Dec 17th on prospects for stability in U.S.-Russian relations. He is on the moderate side of the current Russophobia but will not look into the evidence that the Browder hoax is blocking the improved U.S.-Russia relations he wants.
Dec 16, 2019 – I talked today on Fault Lines about the illicit Russian stock buys and tax evasion of the Ziff Brothers, whose Russian investments were handled by William Browder. This expands on and explains what I said in the half-hour broadcast.
Dec 14, 2019 – Democrats refusing to cross a picket line in a labor dispute with French multinational Sodexo should also know that the food service company is a documented thief, stealing from universities, schools, hospitals, even the military. I exposed that in 2009.
Dec 11, 2019 – William Browder has filed a complaint with the German Press Commission against the German magazine Der Spiegel’s exposé of his corruption, of his tax evasion and fake Magnitsky story.
Even if you don‘t like rock, you will appreciate Adrienne Warren‘s bravura performance in this feminist story about a woman who puts up with abuse for years and finally throws off her Svengali to become a world-famous singer.
Dec 8, 2019 – The editor of OCCRP, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a self-described investigative news site with links to the U.S. government and to fraudster William Browder, refuses to sign a statement in support of whistleblower publisher Julian Assange.
On the menu of this clever, succulent play are the characters who make up the back of a boutique restaurant in Park Slope, a trendy neighborhood in Brooklyn where playwright Theresa Rebeck lives. Director Moritz Von Stuelpnagel makes them all eminently real, albeit somewhat New York neurotic in their own ways.
Dec 3, 2019 – Angela Zumpe, a Berlin filmmaker, media artist and painter, was in New York in November to present a film and also a book that intercuts the story of László Moholy-Nagy, a visionary lighting designer and the most experimental of the Bauhaus artists, with her own story. Zumpe is a media artist and was a professor at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, where the Bauhaus was based.
