Bigotry is Learned Behavior, Not Innate

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/08/bigotry-is-learned-behavior-not-innate/

The Audacity of Hope, Denied

 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-audacity-of-hope-denied/

Challenging the Dominant Paradigm

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/14/challenging-the-dominant-paradigm/

Incarceration as Fascism, Incarceration as Imperialism

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/26/incarceration-as-fascism-incarceration-as-imperialism/

On Claudine Gay's Resignation

 From Ishmael and Tennessee Reed's publication Konch Magazinne

Here is a link to the magazine issue.  My piece is in the Essays section:

https://ishmael-reed.squarespace.com/winter-2024

Here is a direct link to the article

On Claudine Gay's Resignation

The Illustrated W. E. B. DuBois

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/23/the-illustrated-w-e-b-dubois/

New Collection titled Living the American Nightmare--New edition

Living the American Nightmare

The content is the same, but the book is set up more formally.

This is just a small collection of some of my essays and articles published on Counterpunch since January 2019. It is currently only available on Amazon, but should be available via other distributors in a week or so. Although you can find the pieces herein online, this is just in case you want to have a print or ebook version. Here's the First edition's back cover blurb "

The concept of an American Dream has been promoted like the latest Hollywood smash for decades. For too many residents of the United States, that dream has been more unattainable than true romance. In the twenty-first century, the American Dream is revealing itself to be a nightmare--something it's always been for many in the US and abroad. This collection of essays asks the question-is a nightmare still a dream? Is the American Dream a nightmare? " 

So This Is the Freedom We Kill Other People For?

Since this was written, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Black woman, has joined the Supreme Court... 

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/01/so-this-is-the-freedom-we-kill-other-people-for/

April 4, 1968

Blast from the Past.....

https://mronline.org/2006/04/04/april-4-1968/ 

The American Way--2021

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/the-american-way-2021/ 

Ben Fletcher-Unsung Hero of the Working Class

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/16/ben-fletcher-unsung-hero-of-the-working-class/

Health Care and Colonialism: A Sickness unto Death

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/26/health-care-and-colonialism-a-sickness-unto-death/

The American Dream Drives a Tank Down Pennsylvania Ave.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/04/the-american-dream-drives-a-tank-down-pennsylvania-ave/

Racist Mural in Liberal Vermont

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/06/racist-mural-in-liberal-vermont/

for more info and a picture

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2017/10/09/burlington-activist-takes-aim-at-white-supremacist-mural

Whiteness and Working Folk

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/19/whiteness-and-working-folks/

New York Panthers--A Legacy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/13/new-yorks-black-panthers-a-legacy/

Review of All the Sinners Saints by Michael Schiffmann

translated from the German

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B01dj5QyuLDeZDNsM2FVUUxraExLMkV3YlEyMTVObE5yRFNR

The Missouri Compromise and General Kelly

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/01/the-missouri-compromise-and-general-kelly/

Sharpening the Contradictions from the Fifty Yard Line

When I used to watch Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath throw the ball back in my earlier years, it seemed most NFL players were white.  They were also assumed to be very patriotic and supportive of the US war on Vietnam and in favor of the more conservative side of US politics.  Whether or not this was as universal as it seemed to be is hard to say since NFL players were not known for expressing their political views in public.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/

White People Must Destroy White Supremacy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/29/white-people-must-destroy-white-supremacy/