"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."
Friday, November 17, 2017
Private Property Does Not Equal Freedom
A review of Negri and Hardt's 2017 title Assembly...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/17/private-property-does-not-equal-freedom/
Monday, November 13, 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Friday, October 27, 2017
Rebel Music
A look at the Liberation Music Collective's latest release....
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/rebel-music-2/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/rebel-music-2/
Friday, October 20, 2017
Stop the Idiocy! Stop the Mattis-ness!
The (revised) toll in lives was: 36, 546 US soldiers, an
estimated 1.5 million Koreans on both sides of the parallel (mostly civilians),
200,000 Chinese soldiers, and another 4000 soldiers from armies that allied
themselves with the United States. In
addition, there were more than one million wounded and/or missing.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/20/stop-the-idiocy-stop-the-mattis-ness/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/20/stop-the-idiocy-stop-the-mattis-ness/
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Can NATO Still Make America Great?
The link below goes to an article I wrote for the previous print edition of Counterpunch magazine. I am sharing it in the hope that some of you who read it will then subscribe to the print version of Counterpunch. Why should you do that since you can read Counterpunch online for free? Because most of the articles in the print issues are not reprinted online is a good place to start....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDed0gtT1JRREhod3NjeXRFRXZxOWZiUFdJOGVz/view?usp=sharing
If you want to subscribe, here is a link to do that.....
https://store.counterpunch.org/subscribe/
Thanks,
Ron
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDed0gtT1JRREhod3NjeXRFRXZxOWZiUFdJOGVz/view?usp=sharing
If you want to subscribe, here is a link to do that.....
https://store.counterpunch.org/subscribe/
Thanks,
Ron
Friday, October 13, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
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/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/
Monday, September 25, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Friday, September 8, 2017
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Gregor Samsa's Twentieth Century Blues
Renaissance man Marc Estrin publishes the director's cut of his 2002 novel.....
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/05/gregor-samsas-twentieth-century-blues/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/05/gregor-samsas-twentieth-century-blues/
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Monday, July 31, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
Thursday, July 20, 2017
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