"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast
3 comments:
Let's be honest Ron. Russia invaded Ukraine. Period. Every death there is on Russia's hands, most particularly, on Putin's hands. Period. Cut out the bullshit about both sides being in the wrong. This is an imperialist's war of conquest by Russia against Ukraine. Let's be honest, and stop covering for Putin.
Let's be honest Anthony. The conflict did not begin with the invasion. Even if you want to pretend that it did, the fact that it continues with no demand by the other superpower intimately involved (Washington) for a ceasefire or peace talks (and its sending of ever more lethal weaponry)proves to me that Washington is perfectly willing to sacrifice Ukrainian lives for its geopolitical plans. You can live in your Orwellian world where war is peace and Russians are always bad, but I'm not buying tht perspective. Never have and never will.
Thanks for this important perspective Ron the whole "liberal" "progressive" world seems to be salivating and priapic over the idea and the feelings too of more violence in Ukraine and further. WILLFULLY ignoring any history that does not suit them. There is a stomach sickening amount of Nazov denial and a "mildening" abroad. Dark times. Much respect from Ireland.
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