Summertime and the Reading is Easy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/27/summertime-and-the-reading-is-easy/

Nixon, Trump and Shadows on the Wall of History

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/24/nixon-trump-and-shadows-on-the-wall-of-history/

Working Class Fiction--Not Just Surplus Value

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/20/working-class-fiction-not-just-surplus-value/

Vermont: Can It Happen Here?

A look at two new books regarding Vermont's history since World War Two.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/13/vermont-can-it-happen-here/

City of Angels Fallen and Otherwise

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/06/city-of-angels-fallen-and-otherwise/

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/