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The ultra-right Polish government of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) is playing a central role in NATO's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. It acts as a provocative and aggressive ally of US imperialism in the region. After the US and UK, Poland has promised Ukraine the third largest sum in arms deliveries, $1.8 billion, although its gross domestic product is only a fraction that of the major imperialist powers. While large parts of the already impoverished Polish population are being thrust into penury by the rapidly rising inflation and the consequences of the pandemic, Warsaw is using the war in Ukraine to push ahead and expand long-cherished rearmament plans. Tanks of the Polish Armed Forces on 'Army Day' 2008 At the end of last year, PiS leader and then Minister of National Security Jaroslaw Kaczynski presented the "Plan for the Defence of the Fatherland." This revised the modernisation plan for the armed forces adopted in 2017. The defence budget was to be...

It's a rarity for all the millions of musicians in the world to have but one project that even remotely makes a dent in the industry's often seeming impenetrable armour. Yet, others miraculously manage to go further and create not one but two (or more) world-conquering groups. Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz is one such artist. Gorillaz were formed by Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett in 1998 under the idea of creating a virtual band and a fictional universe surrounding them. The band are made up of the characters 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs. The band took the world by storm when their debut album dropped in 2001. The album featured their first single, 'Clint Eastwood' and the track is the one that Albarn thinks is the band's best. "I mean, you don't get more perfect than that, really," Albarn said. "It's just complete hybrid, weird shit. And, you know, it came from switching on the Suzuki Omnichord, and the fi...

Next to the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Four Tops were the primary recipients of Holland-Dozier-Holland's hitmaking prowess at Motown. So it's no surprise that the principals of those groups had only warm memories about Lamont Dozier as news spread on Tuesday (Aug. 9) of his death at the age of 81. "Such a great guy," Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the sole surviving founding member of the Four Tops, told Billboard about Dozier, who was also a close personal friend and running buddy. "He was so talented. He could sing really well. He was a good writer, a good producer, really an integral part of Holland-Dozier-Holland." Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Martha Reeves, meanwhile, remembered that Dozier "had the greatest sense of humor. He made you laugh and made you comfortable more than Eddie and Brian (H...

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Lady Gaga exploded in 2008 with a simple mantra: Just dance. Through sublime singles, meat dresses at MTV Video Music Awards, egg hatchings at the Grammys, an Oscar win, duets with Tony Bennett, and oh so, so much more, Gaga has (purposefully) muddied that mantra. Gaga's current tour – The Chromatica Ball, which stopped at Fenway Park on Friday night – does get back to the dancing. But instead of just dance, it's dance and think, dance and cry, dance and marvel at the P. T. Barnum-on-acid spectacle of it all. And, in its best moments, it's sit down and just listen. Like in the past with Gaga, that spectacle can threaten to crowd out the pop. Towers of fog, a dozen dancers, video screens as tall as the Green Monster, more pyro than Motley Crue, Gaga singing while enveloped in a cocoon straight out of Tron and stuck on a slowly rotating lazy Susan. This was the first song, "Bad Romance." The spectacle was one of the biggest, boldest ever put on in Fenway. But...

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