"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."
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Friday, June 9, 2017
Friday, May 26, 2017
The Deep State is the State
Labels:
anti-imperialism,
CIA,
corruption,
deep state,
democrats,
fascism,
FBI,
police state,
Russia,
Trumpism
Friday, May 19, 2017
Friday, May 12, 2017
McMaster’s Civilized War for Civilization
Just because a general has a new way to fight a war doesn’t mean that war should be fought. The war in Afghanistan is not being incorrectly waged. Instead, it is the war and occupation of Afghanistan that is wrong.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/mcmasters-civilized-war-for-civilization/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/mcmasters-civilized-war-for-civilization/
Monday, May 8, 2017
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Interview: US War Industry Profits from a Long War in Syria
Friday, April 28, 2017
Thursday, April 27, 2017
One Hundred Years That Shook the World
It’s as if John Reed, author of the classic piece of revolutionary journalism, Ten Days That Shook the World, woke from a decades-long sleep to tell the story of 1917 once again. Although there is less personal detail, the sweep of Miéville’s story is equal to Reed’s in its breadth while matching it in passion. It is Reed’s contention that the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers were at the front of the revolution. One hundred years later, Miéville’s telling agrees.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/27/one-hundred-years-that-shook-the-world/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/27/one-hundred-years-that-shook-the-world/
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Syria: Beyond Western Myths and Half-Truths
A book about history that is ignored by so many....not meant as an endorsement of Assad and his army but certain to be taken that way by those unwilling or unable to look at the broader picture...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/11/syria-beyond-western-myths-and-half-truths/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/11/syria-beyond-western-myths-and-half-truths/
Friday, April 7, 2017
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Mad Dog, Meet Eris, Queen of Strife
This isn't reason. It is madness.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/mad-dog-meet-eris-queen-of-strife/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/mad-dog-meet-eris-queen-of-strife/
Friday, March 24, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Monday, March 6, 2017
Islam: A Conversation on Paper
"Mourad and Anderson recently published a book titled The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson. It is a text with a grand mission: to introduce and inform non-Muslims of the history, and philosophical underpinnings and debates that make up the Islamic religion.Despite its rather small size, the book manages to succeed in its task."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/06/islam-a-conversation-on-paper/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/06/islam-a-conversation-on-paper/
Friday, March 3, 2017
Friday, February 24, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
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