Ron Is Still Home

As Barack Obama's troop escalation begins in Afghanistan and talking heads debate how many more troops the US should send, the leadersh...

The American people did not elect the Pentagon. They elected Barack Obama based a good deal on his promise to get US troops out of Iraq ...

As a book reviewer, I come across a lot of books. Add to that the fact that I work in a library and one can see how many books of all kinds...

The culmination of the year that was 1968 was the release of the Beatles album familiarly known as the White Album. A collection of songs ...

I can't deny the exhilaration I felt on Tuesday, November 4th when the presidential election was called for Barack Obama. When people i...

I should be used to it by now, but I'm not. When I read statements from US policymakers telling the world that Iraq is still not capab...

When I got on the bus last April after Barack Obama's primary victory in North Carolina, the conversation was naturally enough about tha...

The recent selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee has revived the media's interest in what they love to ca...

It's a classic antiauthoritarian trope that enemies don't really exist, therefore governments need to create them. The primary reas...

August 1st would have been Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's 68th birthday. While not of the same importance as Christmas is to C...

In recent years a number of novels that revolve around Sixties radicals coming to terms with their pasts have hit the bookstores. Some of ...

I was a kid in 1968. It was the year I turned 13 and it was the year my dad began to prepare to go to Vietnam. The Tet offensive was on t...

Jeffrey St. Clair gave my novel Short Order Frame Up a pretty decent capsule review that captures the essence of the work. It can be found...

Pretty much everyone but the dead know that the US occupation of Iraq is now entering its sixth year. When one looks for comparable circumst...