Music, power, politics, and the stories behind the stories.
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Miles on the Record
This is the main personal section: what I think now, what I remember, what I got right, what I got wrong, and what everyone else has conveniently forgotten. It is written, dictated, supplied, or approved by me—not a generic “voice of” approximation.
Expect music-business war stories, political arguments, historical corrections, useful provocations, and the occasional sentence that makes an old enemy sit up much straighter.
Editorial Collections
8 entries
The Music Business
How artists, labels, managers, publishers, promoters, and money actually behave.
0 entries
The Police & Sting
The strategy, risks, personalities, touring, and decisions behind a global breakthrough.
3 entries
Punk, New Wave & Breaking Rules
When having no respectable option became a competitive advantage.
0 entries
Arab Music & Global Sound
Crossing markets, languages, and cultural assumptions without flattening the music.
97 entries
Entertainment, Film & Media
Records were only the beginning; attention itself became a business.
181 entries
Politics, Power & the Middle East
Independent commentary from someone who distrusts slogans, tribes, and simple answers.
22 entries
Intelligence & the Copeland Files
OSS, SOE, the early CIA, espionage culture, propaganda, and family stories from inside the mythology.
52 entries
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Success, failure, reinvention, and the education hidden inside an expensive mistake.
All Miles on the Record
205Mar 4, 2022
Miscalculations
All through history major leaders have made serious miscalculations. It is easy to do. Give a leader a few successes and people around him will be…
Mar 4, 2022
Confused?
Dear Fox commentators. I am confused. The US Government does not own any oil company and oil companies are totally in the private sector. No US…
Mar 4, 2022
Politics
Its very easy to criticize if you don't have to be responsible for what happens. Its easy to criticize for what should have happened if you dont know…
Mar 4, 2022
Nuclear solution to Ukraine
My son Miles IV came up with an interesting scenario to solve the Ukraine war. It goes something like this: Letter to Putin and the Russian Military…
Mar 3, 2022
Putin's speech
Earlier today Putin made another speech on Russian state media. Just like the last speech we heard his words and watched him saying them. According…
Mar 3, 2022
Lessons of history
There is not much good one can attach to the war in Ukraine but it does expose me to people with views that try to validate some of what Putin is…
Mar 3, 2022
Confused Logic
Someone should tell Sean Hannity that the US has NOT purchased any Russian gas/oil for the last two weeks. Russian oil accounts for 3% of annual US…
Mar 3, 2022
Media People
Blame for what is going on in Ukraine can be shared by many going back for many years. It goes to show that not dealing with an issue early can…
Mar 3, 2022
Real danger
The real danger ALL of us will face, Russians, Americans, Europeans, Putin himself is what is beginning to happen. The scenes of destruction and…
Mar 3, 2022
Hello World!
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Mar 2, 2022
Denazification
Interesting Putin Denazification of Ukraine. A Russian missal destroys the Kyiv Jewish Holocaust memorial.
Mar 2, 2022
The Polls
The polls tell you what people think today, NOT what they will think six months from now. Polls showed Putin was popular six months ago. What would…
Mar 2, 2022
Who is Doug Macgregor?
FYI, I just watched a FOX useful idiot Tucker Carlson interview with a retired Colonel, Doug Macgregor claiming him to be a non-partisan, truth…
Mar 2, 2022
Leadership
I always wonder what people mean when they criticize a leader for "leading from behind". Leadership can be complicated and there is no one way to…
Mar 2, 2022
Hannity
As usual Sean Hannity can only say over the top negative statements about the Democrats and President Biden. I wish he was not so predictable. I…
Mar 2, 2022
Question for FOX
Dear Fox News, I am watching your excellent reporting from the Ukraine, with your reporters risking their lives in what must be ever increasingly…
Mar 2, 2022
Sean Hannity
Dear Mr, Sean Hannity, I will admit that I disagree with many of your views but watch you as I do all the networks as well to get a cross section of…
Mar 2, 2022
Stupid Wars
The USA has had its share of stupid wars. Iraq was a war of choice that did not need to be fought. It was a war sold to the American people under…
Mar 2, 2022
Putin
The news from Ukraine is getting worse. It will continue to get worse from now on. It will go on even if Russia conquers all of Ukraine. There is…
Mar 1, 2022
Words Don't Matter
Interesting to see that Putin stated his reason to invade Ukraine was the Denazification of the country. To rid it of neo Nazis running the…
Mar 1, 2022
Be careful what you wish for
The US is a market oriented economy where the Government can interfere to a limited degree. That has its advantages and its disadvantages. There are…
Mar 1, 2022
Ukraine
I don't think the Western world has really come to grips of what the Russian invasion of Ukraine has done. The Ukrainians are not people in far away…
Mar 1, 2022
Amnesia
It's time for news, not for political pot shots from people with amnesia and a political agenda. It's interesting to see how things said just…
Feb 28, 2022
Good Fox reporting
I have never been a fan of Fox, but I have to admit that their reporting on the Ukraine situation has been very good. Their reporters in the field…
Admirers, skeptics, former allies, competitors, critics, and lifelong enemies are all welcome. An audience that agrees with everything is either not listening or trying to get a deal.
Read the stories, check the facts, challenge the conclusions, and argue intelligently. History becomes much tidier after the people who made it have stopped talking. I have not.