2016 What Have You Wrought

Darkness at the Break of noon....
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/2016-what-have-you-wrought/

Democracy is Gone in the USA

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/23/democracy-is-gone-in-the-usa/

Bargaining for Salvation in the Devil’s Arena

According to the legend, Jes’ Grew comes and goes. Its peaks in the past one hundred years include the jazz age and the age of Rock and roll and Rhythm and Blues. One might argue that certain dance music of the current period might also be a hearkening of the Jes’ Grew infestation, but I think its insistence on mechanization renders its inclusion unlikely. However, Jes’ Grew will never die. And it gestates in festivals like Warren Haynes annual benefit show in Asheville, North Carolina. If it doesn’t save your soul, at least it makes you feel like living for another day.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/16/bargaining-for-salvation-in-the-devils-arena/

Surviving Hate and Death: The AIDS Crisis in the 1980s

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/surviving-hate-and-death-the-aids-crisis-in-1980s-usa/

Selling Racism--A Lesson From South Africa

The movement against South African apartheid was perhaps the most universal and popular movement in the western world in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands protested in a multitude of ways—from letter-writing campaigns to shantytown occupations of city squares and college campus greens.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/selling-racism-a-lesson-from-pretoria/