https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/24/twentieth-century-europe-revolution-and-reaction/
"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, September 24, 2021
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Police will not solve economic and social problems underlying crime
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Kabul's Victors and the Vanquished
This
article published today in Counterpunch (8/19) has already elicited
some pretty harsh emails. It is written not to express support for the
Taliban, but in an attempt to look at the situation free from imperial
prejudices and assumptions. In terms of the situation in Afghanistan,
let us remember that ending a war is almost as ugly as fighting one.
The western media has an agenda that included supporting the US war on
the Afghans, on the Iraqis, on the Vietnamese and a multitude of other
peoples around the world. It has no legitimate right to say a damn
thing about the havoc and fear in Afghanistan since it helped to create
and maintain it. Besides my piece in today Cpunch, the lead article is
by Vijay Prashad. I heartily recommend reading it along with mine.
His analysis from India provides a clear and practical look at how a
future might look in Afghanistan.
-Ron J
Friday, August 13, 2021
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Sunday, June 27, 2021
Music is Our Special Friend—1971 With a Bullet
This is from Counterpunch's subscriber only section. I can't emphasize enough--SUBSCRIBE!!! It's worth the 25 bucks a year.....
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/27/music-is-our-special-friend-1971-with-a-bullet/
Labels:
1971,
Aretha,
Attica,
Counterpunch,
Marvin Gaye,
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Vietnam war
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