J.B. Spins

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Friday, July 14, 2023

Eastern Front, on OVID.tv

They are a bit like Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms , but the war is happening in their own country. For them, volunteering as a medics...

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

CIFF ’18: Putin’s Witnesses

It was a scene worthy of the third Omen movie. Late in the evening on New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation as p...

Monday, July 04, 2016

Under the Sun: North Korea Exposed by its Own Propaganda

Lee Zin-mi really is a sweet little girl, but that is about the only true thing about the propaganda film she was supposed to star in. Ru...

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J.B.: J.B. (Joe Bendel) is a veteran of the trade book publishing industry and has taught jazz survey courses at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He has written for print and online publications, like The Epoch Times, Cinema Daily US, Criminal Element, and Signal to Noise. He also coordinated instrument donations for displaced musicians on a volunteer basis for the Jazz Foundation of America during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Send e-mail to: jb.feedback "at" yahoo "dot" com.

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