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Daniel Glassman

Glassman lives in Toronto and writes about film and music. See also povmagazine.com

Barbarism or socialism?

ECONOMY: The conflict between the United States and China is a confrontation between the divergent political-economic models of Chinese industrialism and American fiscal policy. But China has charted its own course and avoided neoliberal shock therapy, according to American economist Michael Hudson.

Bannon's laws of nature

Steve Bannon was the brain behind what was actually a revolution in the United States. Is it time we take him seriously?

A cinematic prayer

Rithy Panh's cinematic excavation of the Cambodian genocide is entering its third decade, with at least five aesthetic attempts to approach it.

A movie about a presidency

Far from the last word is said about the end of the Obama administration. 

Black air and a new sun

Two widely different Canadian documentaries both delve into the relationship between energy and the environment.

The new Syria

New documentary explores IS's path to power in Syria – and what role international media played in it all.

When all governments are lying

Independent journalists are needed because the "free press" is not free.

Syria war minute by minute

New documentary explores IS's path to power in Syria – and what role international media played in it all.