Same As It Ever Was: The GWOT and Colonial History

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/28/same-as-it-ever-was-the-gwot-and-colonial-history/

Speaking and organizing......

As I get closer to retiring from my full time position as a library worker, I am looking for other ways to supplement my retirement check. One of the things I am hoping to do is talk to groups more. My talks are usually informal presentations/discussions of radical political and cultural history, considerations of the present and potential futures. If your group, class or whatever are interested, please contact me via Messenger. Here is a link to a talk I gave in Boston about 3 1/2 years ago....just an example

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Ron Jacobs presents: Revolution in the Air? The 1960s Become the 1970s and the S**t Hits the Fan

The end of the 1960s saw the intensification of…

Divest From the Business of Incarceration

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/21/divest-from-the-business-of-incarceration/

What's So Bad About Peace, Man?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/15/whats-so-bad-about-peace-man/

Petulance as Statecraft--Trump Does Canada

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/12/petulance-as-statecraft-trump-does-canada/

Jim Brown-Superstar/Superman

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/08/jim-brown-superstar-superman/

Badass Tragedy--Country Music

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/01/badass-tragedy/

A Photographic Revenge

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/25/a-photographic-revenge/

Gina Haspell: She's Certainly Qualified for the Job

Please donate to Counterpunch....ten bucks, fifteen...anything

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/21/gina-haspell-shes-certainly-qualified-for-the-job/

Liars Club: Ollie North and General Kelly

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/14/liars-club-ollie-north-and-general-kelly/

An Ideology of Self-Righteousness

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/11/an-ideology-of-self-righteousness/

Korea--An Alternative History

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/04/korea-an-alternative-history/

A Warning Likely to Be Unheeded: A Review of Norman Pollack’s Final Book

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/27/a-warning-likely-to-be-unheeded-a-review-of-norman-pollacks-final-book/

Resisting the Military-Now More Than Ever

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/24/resisting-the-military-now-more-than-ever/

War is Just F**kin' Wrong

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/16/war-is-just-fkin-wrong/

Venturing Into the Slipstream

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/13/venturing-into-the-slipstream/

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

Sous Le Pave, Le Plage--May '68

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/30/sous-le-pave-la-plage-may-68/

Flashing for the Refugees on the Unarmed Road of Flight

A Review of Ramzy Baroud's The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/23/flashing-for-the-refugees-on-the-unarmed-road-of-flight/

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/