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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Baby Face Leroy Foster

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“The dictator says "You are allowed to think as you want" but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security”

-- Bangambiki Habyarimana

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News and Opinion

If You’re Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free

If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech.

This is exactly the sort of thing that freedom of speech is intended for: times when the government is doing something wrong which needs to be ferociously opposed. That’s the primary reason it’s an enshrined value in our society. Freedom of speech is for holding the powerful to account.

If you only have freedom of speech when you’re agreeing with your government and saying nothing which inconveniences the powerful, then Saudi Arabia has free speech. Every tyrannical regime that has ever existed has had freedom of speech by those standards. You don’t measure a society’s freedom by how much its citizenry are allowed to agree with their government, you measure it by how much they’re allowed to disagree.

UK police made their first arrests on Wednesday since announcing officers will detain people who publicly chant pro-Palestinian calls to "globalise the intifada", in a change prompted by Australia's Bondi Beach attack. pic.twitter.com/VBFjod7CV1

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) December 18, 2025

And right now we are being told we’re not allowed to disagree. We’re being told the protests need to stop, the anti-genocide chants need to be criminalized, and everyone needs to shut up and obey — all justified by the completely baseless narrative that the words and actions of pro-Palestinian activists were somehow responsible a terrible massacre that was committed in Sydney last week.

And these policies just so happen to serve the interests of the very same western powers whose genocide-enabling actions were being forcefully opposed these last two years. Government officials constantly being protested and questioned about their facilitation of Israel’s genocidal atrocities. Politicians who are consistently confronted by anti-genocide demonstrators during their public appearances. Wealthy arms manufacturers whose profit margins are being harmed by direct action from activist groups. Plutocratic media institutions who are becoming more and more discredited in the public eye as the Gaza holocaust exposes them all. Billionaires whose empires are built upon the political status quo that gave rise to the genocide in question.

If the powerful are shutting down speech rights to advance their own interests in your society, then your society is not meaningfully different than the dictatorships the western world tries to contrast itself with. All our stories about living in a free society have been just that: stories. Fairy tales.

That’s what they’re telling us with this mad rush to stomp out freedom of speech this past week. They are telling us that we do not live in the kind of society we were taught about in school. They are telling us that the only reason we were allowed to speak as we pleased in the years leading up to the Gaza genocide is because we were a bunch of compliant sheep who were not meaningfully challenging the interests of the powerful, and now that we are meaningfully challenging them the facade of freedom and democracy is falling away.

As Frank Zappa once said, “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Alastair Crooke : Will Netanyahu Blame Gaza Failures on Trump?

Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank

Israel has approved a proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as the government pushes ahead with a construction binge in the territory that poses a further threat to the possibility of a Palestinian state. It brings the total number of new settlements over the past few years to 69, a new record, according to the far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who has pushed a settlement expansion agenda in the West Bank. The latest include two that were previously evacuated during a 2005 disengagement plan.

The approval by the security cabinet increases the number of settlements in the West Bank by nearly 50% during the current government’s tenure. In 2022, there were 141 settlements across the West Bank. After the latest approval there are 210, according to Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog group.

Settlements are considered illegal under international law.

The approval comes as the US pushes Israel and Hamas to move ahead with the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire, which took effect on 10 October. The US-brokered plan calls for a possible “pathway” to a Palestinian state, something the settlements are aimed at preventing. ...

Settler expansion has been compounded by a surge of attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank in recent months. During October’s olive harvest, settlers across the territory launched an average of eight attacks each day, the most since the UN humanitarian office began collecting data in 2006. The attacks continued in November, with the UN recording at least 136 more by 24 November. Settlers burned cars, desecrated mosques, ransacked industrial plants and destroyed cropland. Israeli authorities have done little beyond issuing occasional condemnations of the violence.

Israeli Forces Massacre 6 Palestinians Celebrating Wedding at Gaza School Shelter

Funerals were held Saturday in northern Gaza for six people, including children, massacred the previous day by Israeli tank fire during a wedding celebration at a school sheltering displaced people, as the number of Palestinians killed during the tenuous 10-week ceasefire rose to over 400.

On Friday, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank blasted the second floor of the Gaza Martyrs School, which was housing Palestinians displaced by the two-year war on Gaza in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.

Al Jazeera and other news outlets reported that the attack occurred while people were celebrating a wedding.

Al-Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abou Salmiya said those slain included a 4-month-old infant, a 14-year-old girl, and two women. At least five others were injured in the attack.

“It was a safe area and a safe school and suddenly... they began firing shells without warning, targeting women, children and civilians,” Abdullah Al-Nader—who lost relatives including 4-month-old Ahmed Al-Nader in the attack—told Agence France-Presse.

Witnesses said IDF troops subsequently blocked first responders including ambulances and civil defense personnel from reaching the site for over two hours.

“We gathered the remains of children, elderly, infants, women, and young people,” Nafiz al-Nader, another relative of the infant and others killed in Friday’s attack, told reporters. “Unfortunately, we called the ambulance and the civil defense, but they couldn’t get by the Israeli army.”

The IDF said that “during operational activity in the area of the Yellow Line in the northern Gaza Strip, a number of suspicious individuals were identified in command structures,” and that “troops fired at the suspicious individuals to eliminate the threat.”

The Yellow Line is a demarcation boundary between areas of Gaza under active Israeli occupation—more than half of the strip’s territory, including most agricultural and strategic lands—and those under the control of Hamas.

“The claim of casualties in the area is familiar; the incident is under investigation,” the IDF said, adding that it “regrets any harm to uninvolved parties and acts as much as possible to minimize harm to them.”

Israel Approves 19 New West Bank Settlements as State-Sponsored Violence Escalates

Sweden and Germany slash aid budgets to focus on Ukraine and defence spending

The notion of humanitarian aid being used to combat poverty and hunger is being replaced in Europe with geopolitical “games” as states redirect aid to Ukraine and to defence spending, analysts warn after recent announcements by Sweden and Germany. Earlier this year, humanitarian groups called for European donors to fill the gap as President Donald Trump dismantled the USAID programme, but instead other nations are further pulling back from their commitments around the world.

In December, Sweden announced a 10bn kronor (£800m) cut in development funding to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Tanzania and Bolivia. Germany’s humanitarian budget of €1.05bn (£920m) for 2026 will be less than half of last year’s, with spending refocused on areas deemed a priority to Europe.

“I think we are losing a consensus of solidarity and responsibility which has been established for a while now,” said Ralf Südhoff, director of the Berlin-based Centre for Humanitarian Action. “Germany this year has started to phase out Latin America, decreased engagement in Asia and say they want to focus now on crises which have an impact on Europe,” he said, noting that while Ukraine was in need of funding because of Russia’s invasion, its location in Europe meant it was saved from the cuts developing countries have experienced.

The UK also announced earlier this year that it would be cutting aid to fund defence spending. Norway has increased its civilian support to Ukraine by 2.5bn kroner (£185m), to a quarter of its aid budget, but has been accused of making Africa pay for that rise with a 355m kroner cut (£26m). France’s budget for 2026 will also see a €700m cut to aid spending, with a 60% reduction in food aid, while increasing defence spending by €6.7bn.

“It’s a broader geopolitical trend and there’s a misleading belief by European actors that they have to play this game now in the same way as Moscow, Beijing, Washington,” said Südhoff, suggesting aid will be more “transactional” and directed to where donors see direct benefits for themselves. “The reaction now is not to fill the gap or attempt to do so but to follow the [American] cuts.”

Pepe Escobar: Putin's Oreshnik BOMBSHELL Shocks NATO, Trump's Tanker War ERUPTS

Prof. Glenn Diesen : Is the EU a Criminal Gang?

Kremlin renews criticism of Europe’s efforts to amend US plan to end Ukraine war

Russia has renewed its criticism of efforts by Europe and Ukraine to amend US proposals to end the war in Ukraine, saying they did not improve prospects for peace. Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters on Sunday that the proposed tweaks to Washington’s plan could prolong the conflict.

“I am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely do not improve the document and do not improve the possibility of achieving long-term peace,” Ushakov said, adding that he had not seen the exact proposals and that his criticism was “not a forecast”.

Ukrainian forces have been battling an attempted Russian breakthrough in the village of Grabovske in the north-eastern Sumy region, Ukraine’s joint taskforce said. It disputed reports that Russian troops had occupied the nearby village of Ryasne. Ukraine’s rights ombudsman said Russian forces forcibly moved about 50 people from Grabovske to Russia.

US intelligence believes Putin remains intent on capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet Union, Reuters reported, citing six sources familiar with US intelligence. Last week Putin called Europe’s leaders “little pigs” and said Russia would achieve its goals through diplomacy or force. However, Donald Trump’s lead negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are holding talks with Russia’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Miami in the belief that a peace deal may be close.

Macron or Merz, who will rule over Europe?

Fear that confrontation is on the cards as policing of ships becomes more aggressive

The “shadow fleet” used by Russia, Iran and Venezuela to avoid western sanctions and ship cargo to customers including China and India is “exploding” in its scale and scope, and there are concerns that efforts to counter it are drawing closer to dangerous military confrontations. Complicating the issue is that Russia has begun putting its own flag on some former shadow fleet tankers, in an open challenge to Europe.

The constellation of ageing oil tankers – under opaque ownership and questionable flagging – has become the focus of rising international attention this year. There have been maritime interdictions to enforce sanctions, and the recently announced US blockade of sanctions-busting ships in Venezuela. ...

The increasingly aggressive efforts to police the shadow fleet and evidence that Russia is willing to use military assets to protect tankers, has led experts to warn of the risk of confrontation. ... An increasing international appetite for enforcement – including the Trump administration’s announcement in December that it would enforce a blockade against ships under sanctions visiting Venezuela – has brought it own risks. It is not only Washington that has indicated it is prepared to intercept shadow fleet tankers. In October, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, signalled a greater willingness from Europeans to tackle vessels in its waters.

The risks implied in such a policy were underlined by an incident involving an oil tanker known in quick succession as Jaguar, Blint and then finally as the Russian-flagged Nasledie. An attempt by the Estonian navy to intercept the vessel in the Gulf of Finland in May prompted an incursion by a Russian Su-35 jet into Estonian airspace.

Trump Ramps Up Aggression Against Venezuela With Seizure of Ship Not Under US Sanctions

The Trump administration’s “total and complete blockade” of “all sanctioned oil tankers” off the Venezuelan coast was already denounced by critics as “an act of war”—and the United States further escalated its aggression on Saturday by seizing a tanker that is not on a list vessels under US sanctions.

US Coast Guard troops led Saturday’s seizure of the Centuries, a Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, after it left Venezuela.

“The United States will continue to pursue the illicit movement of sanctioned oil that is used to fund narco-terrorism in the region,” US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X. “We will find you, and we will stop you.”

On Sunday, an unnamed US official told Reuters that the Coast Guard “is in active pursuit” of a third tanker near Venezuela, “a sanctioned dark fleet vessel” that “is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order.”

The Venezuelan government condemned Saturday’s seizure as “a serious act of international piracy.”

US Coast Guard pursuing another oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

US Coast Guard officials said on Sunday that they are tracking an oil tanker in international waters close to Venezuela, according to media reports, marking the second such action over the weekend – and the third within the past week.

What officials described as an “active pursuit” in the Caribbean Sea took place a day after the coast guard seized another vessel off the coast of Venezuela early on Saturday morning, as Washington ramps up its pressure campaign targeting the South American nation’s vital oil sector.

Unnamed officials told the Associated Press that Sunday’s pursuit involved “a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela’s illegal sanctions evasion”. News outlets identified the ship involved as the Bella 1, an oil tanker under US sanctions since 2024 because of alleged ties to Iran and Hezbollah.

US forces approached the vessel late on Saturday, but the ship did not submit to being boarded and continued sailing, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed officials, who described the situation as still active. According to the specialized site TankerTrackers, the ship was en route to Venezuela but not carrying cargo.

Luigi Mangione lawyers fight death penalty, saying Pam Bondi is biased

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are attempting to avoid the death penalty and throw out two federal charges in the justice department’s case against him, arguing that attorney general Pam Bondi is biased because she used to work at a lobbying firm that represents UnitedHealth Group.

In court documents filed on Friday, Mangione’s lawyers said that Bondi has a “profound conflict of interest” because her former employer, Ballard Partners, a DC-based lobbying firm founded by the Trump donor Brian Ballard, counts UnitedHealth Group as one of its clients.

UnitedHealth Group is the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, its healthcare insurance division. Bondi became a lobbyist with Ballard Partners in 2019, after her term as Florida attorney general ended. She officially left the firm upon her appointment as attorney general earlier this year.

While it’s unclear whether Bondi ever directly worked with UnitedHealth Group as a lobbyist, Mangione’s lawyers are seeking to investigate the attorney general’s ties to Ballard and its relationship with UnitedHealth Group, including Bondi’s compensation with the firm and directions she’s given justice department employees in Mangione’s case.

Mangione’s lawyers are arguing that this alleged conflict of interest, along with comments Bondi has made about Mangione that his lawyers described as overtly political, should encourage the court to throw out the possibility of the death penalty, along with removing two federal charges and tossing out certain evidence from the case. A hearing is scheduled for 9 January at the US court for the southern district of New York in Manhattan.

Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice fired from West Virginia ranger position

The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years that he left a small department following public backlash.

Timothy Loehmann was fired on Friday from his position at the Snowshoe Resort Community District (SRCD). The district’s board announced Loehmann’s firing in a statement following their emergency meeting.

A Cleveland-based attorney for Rice’s family, Subodh Chandra, said that “Loehmann’s determination to inflict himself on other people seems pathological. So does the craven poor judgment required by any public officials who hire him.”

Rice, who was Black, was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland on 22 November 2014, when he was shot and killed by Loehmann seconds after the officer and his partner arrived. The white officers told investigators Loehmann had shouted three times at Rice to raise his hands.

Rep. Ro Khanna Urges Contempt Charges over AG Bondi's Epstein Redactions

Outrage and legal threats: Trump justice department slammed after limited Epstein files release

Donald Trump’s justice department was hit with legal threats and scathing outrage after authorities released a limited, heavily redacted trove of Jeffrey Epstein files in an apparent violation of the law mandating the near-complete disclosure of these documents by Friday.

“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,” Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman who co-authored the law requiring full disclosure of all Epstein files by 19 December, said in a video statement.

“It is an incomplete release, with too many redactions. Thomas Massie and I are exploring all options,” he also said, among them possible impeachment of justice department officials, finding them in contempt of Congress. Khanna also floated the possibility of “referring for prosecution those who are obstructing justice”.

A future DOJ could convict the current AG and others because the Epstein Files Transparency Act is not like a Congressional Subpoena which expires at the end of each Congress.

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 20, 2025

Frustrations mounted on Saturday as the justice department released some new files, including transcripts, while also removing more than a dozen others from its website related to Epstein, with no explanation. At least 16 files disappeared from the department’s public webpage, according to an Associated Press tally. The documents included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, is a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell. ...

Trump’s justice department was required to release all investigative files involving the late financier by 19 December under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The legislation does allow for records to be withheld or redacted if their disclosure would imperil present criminal investigations, threaten national security or identify Epstein’s victims – but otherwise it mandates disclosure of everything else.

Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal

While Donald Trump’s justice department did not deliver on a legal requirement to disclose all Jeffrey Epstein-related files by Friday, one document in an otherwise underwhelming disclosure lifted the veil on authorities’ inaction – and its dire consequences for dozens of teen girls. That document is an FBI report from Maria Farmer, a painter who worked for Epstein around 1996.
Farmer, whose sister Annie Farmer was abused by Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at age 16, told authorities in 1996 that the late financier “stole” nude images of her siblings. Farmer reported Epstein’s behavior with these photographs, but the FBI has never openly recognized that she made such a report, according to the New York Times. The newspaper also noted how an internal investigation into the justice department’s handling of Epstein’s case did not mention this report. The police report states that “Complainant [Maria Farmer] stated that she is a professional artist and took pictures of her sisters 12 and 16 yrs for her own [personal] Art Work”.

“Epstein Stole the photos and Negatives and is believed to have sold the pictures to potential buyers,” it adds. The report also stated that Epstein requested “pictures of young girls at swimming pools” and threatened Farmer, saying “that if she tells anyone about the photos he will burn her house down”. It’s unclear what, if anything, the FBI did with that report. It is clear, however, that Epstein continued to abuse girls for years after Maria Farmer brought him to law enforcement’s attention.

Maria Farmer, through her attorney Jennifer Freeman of Marsh Law, said she was “shedding tears of joy for myself but also tears of sorrow for all of the other victims that the FBI failed”. Freeman, who is representing Maria Farmer in her lawsuit against the federal government, said in a statement: “What’s new today is finally getting the FBI report of Maria Farmer from 1996 - this is triumph and tragedy for Maria and so many survivors.”

“Maria Farmer reported Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes in 1996. Had the government done their job, and properly investigated Maria’s report, over 1000 victims could have been spared and 30 years of trauma avoided,” Freeman also said. “After several years of asking for her records, the [government] finally released at least some of them today.”

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Elise Stefanik ends bid for New York governor and plans to leave Congress

Republican US representative Elise Stefanik – a staunch ally of Donald Trump who calls herself “ultra-Maga” – is ending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek re-election to Congress.

Stefanik wrote on “It is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted Republican primary, especially in a challenging state like New York”.

Once considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for governor, Stefanik’s race became more complicated after Bruce Blakeman, the executive of Nassau county, entered the race. If she did manage to win the primary, she would have faced a tough battle to unseat New York’s Democratic governor Kathy Hochul, who has been polling far ahead in a state where Democrats far outnumber Republicans. ...

Stefanik, who represents New York’s North Country region, will also be joining a number of Republican lawmakers leaving the House, following in the footsteps of far-right representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who is leaving office in January. Stefanik said she would serve out the remainder of her term in Congress.

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‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis

The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded. Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests. The key global crops, wheat, rice and maize, are expected to see the losses to pests increase by about 46%, 19% and 31% respectively when global heating reaches 2C, the scientists said.

Global heating is helping insects such as aphids, planthoppers, stem borers, caterpillars and locusts thrive. Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold. As a result, the climate-driven flourishing of pests will be worst in temperate places, such as Europe and the US, the researchers said. Temperatures may have already hit a limit for some insects in the tropics, they said, although the cutting of croplands into tropical forests is supporting more pests.

Pest movement is also being accelerated via food exports along global trade networks. In parallel, the destruction of natural habitats and heavy use of pesticides and fertilisers is crippling the natural predators of pests, while the expansion of farmland creates new areas for crop pests to infest.

Pests and diseases destroy about 40% of global crop production, “creating a major challenge for global food security”, the scientists said. The direct impact of the climate crisis on wheat, rice and maize is predicted to cut yields by 6-10% for every 1C of global heating.

Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado

15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump

Since the second Trump administration took power in January, at least 15 coal plants have had planned retirements pushed back or delayed indefinitely, a DeSmog analysis found.

That’s mostly due to an expected rise in electricity demand, a surge largely driven by the rise of high-powered data centers needed to train and run artificial intelligence (AI) models. But some of the plants have been ordered to stay open by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), despite significant environmental and financial costs. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former fracking executive, has frequently cited “winning the AI race” as a rationale for re-investing in coal.

The fossil fuel facilities are located in regions across the country, from Maryland to Michigan and Georgia to Wyoming. Together, their two dozen coal-fired generators emitted more than 68 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2024. That’s more than the total emissions of Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. combined.

Nearly 75 percent of the coal plants were on track to shutter in the next two years.

The delays buck the overall trend in the U.S., where coal’s importance as an energy source has diminished rapidly over the past two decades. Coal’s critics say this broad-based phaseout is an urgent matter of public and environmental health. Often called the “dirtiest fossil fuel,” coal creates more climate emissions per gigawatt-hour of electricity than any other power source. And the human impacts of its pollution have been profound: A 2023 study in Science attributed 460,000 extra U.S. deaths between 1999 and 2020 to sulfur dioxide particulate pollution belched out by coal plants.

Cara Fogler, managing senior analyst for the Sierra Club, called the recent spate of delayed closures “unacceptable.”

“We know these coal plants are dirty, they’re uneconomic, they’re costing customers so much money, and they’re polluting the air,” said Fogler, who co-authored a report showing many utilities have backtracked on climate commitments, including coal phaseouts, often citing data centers as a cause. “They need to be planned for retirement, and it’s really concerning to see utilities becoming so much more hesitant to take those steps.”

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

After the First 70,669 Deaths

Craig Murray: Hunger Strikes & Court Cases

Jeffrey Sachs: European Security Includes Russia

The EU’s ‘Russian Asset’ Scam Failed But Warmongers Still Grab Others’ Money

At Least Five Killed by Large-Scale US Airstrikes Targeting ISIS in Syria

Among the Unalienable Rights

Photos from the first batch of the Jeffrey Epstein files

Nicola Jennings on Trump and the Epstein files – cartoon

Silicon Valley's Dark Quest For Techno Fascism

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A Little Night Music

Baby Face Leroy Foster - Boll Weevil

Baby Face Leroy Trio - Red Headed Woman

Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' And Tumblin'

Baby Face Leroy - Blues Is Killin' Me

Baby Face Leroy - Late Hours At Midnight

Baby Face Leroy -- My Head Can't Rest Anymore

Leroy Foster - Take A Little Walk With Me

Baby Face Leroy - Pet Rabbit

Baby Face Leroy - Louella

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