Still Tripping....a New Essay Collection

If you have never read any of my essays or would like to have some of them in a bound paper version, here's your chance (such as it is....)  Click here

Art is a Hammer

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/26/art-is-a-hammer/

Whiteness and Working Folk

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

The Vietnamese War: a Different Take

A review of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/12/the-vietnamese-war-a-different-take/

All You Fascists Bound to Lose

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/05/all-you-fascists-bound-to-lose/

Johnny Appleseed Gets a Comic Book

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/29/johnny-appleseed-gets-a-comic-book/

From Ginsberg to Gonzo

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/22/from-ginsberg-to-gonzo/

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/

Two Books, Two Recordings: Four Reviews

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/two-books-two-recordings-four-reviews/

Books to Consider-A Modest Promotion

 

For sale via online booksellers or through special order at your favorite bookstore......

More Than Just Symbols: The Chicano Resistance Movement

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/more-than-just-symbols-the-chicano-resistance-movement/

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/

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/

Rebel Music

A look at the Liberation Music Collective's latest release....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/rebel-music-2/

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/

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

Riding the Dog

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/13/riding-the-dog/

Ain't No Equal Justice

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/aint-no-equal-justice/