"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."
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Friday, June 23, 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Friday, November 16, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
Friday, December 15, 2017
Sinking in the Swamp
The swamp is not being drained. It is becoming more toxic by
the day. It is now ebb tide at the pig farm and the sewage is in the pool where
your children go to swim.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/15/sinking-in-the-swamp/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/15/sinking-in-the-swamp/
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Friday, March 3, 2017
Friday, December 30, 2016
2016 What Have You Wrought
Darkness at the Break of noon....
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/2016-what-have-you-wrought/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/2016-what-have-you-wrought/
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The Flim Flam Man
It's
so damn American. The settler class of white Europeans living away from the big
mean city get conned by a loudmouth bullshittin' big city con man who has never
made an honest buck in his life. He plays into their fears; of brown skinned foreigners,
angry black people still pissed about their ancestors being enslaved, uppity
women who misuse the rights they got, and big city banks and financiers who
just want to take their money and their land.
Promising to keep the scared people safe, the film-flam man goes back to
his rich friends, laughing to himself about how he loves the uneducated.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Friday, July 31, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Friday, March 28, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Selling the Family Home
Thoughts on my recent visit to help clear out the family home before my dad closed on the deal.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/11/selling-the-family-home/#more-51465
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/11/selling-the-family-home/#more-51465
Friday, February 8, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Saturday, December 3, 2011
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