"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."

--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast

Friday, March 16, 2018

Trump and His Tariffs

Any benefits workers obtain in a capitalist economy are the result of struggle, not the gifts of the owners and financiers.  Supporting the tariffs because of some imagined short term gain is merely buying into neoliberal capitalism’s con game.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/16/trump-and-his-tariffs/

Monday, January 29, 2018

Still Tripping....a New Essay Collection

Still Tripping in the Dark Kindle EditionIf 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

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/