The Alt-Right and US Capitalism in Decay

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/08/the-alt-right-and-us-capitalism-in-decay/

Saint Eric Dolphy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/saint-eric-dolphy-2/

Hands Off Venezuela!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/election-interference-before-military-intervention-hands-off-venezuela/    

Allen Ginsberg Takes a Trip

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/18/allen-ginsberg-takes-a-trip/

Palestine: A History of a People

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/11/palestine-the-history-of-a-people/

Capitalist Word Play

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/04/capitalist-word-play/

Trump's Military Moves

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/28/trumps-military-moves/

A Propagandist of Privatization

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/14/a-propagandist-of-privatization-2/

Getting Pushed Off the Capitalist Cliff

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/07/getting-pushed-off-the-capitalist-cliff/

The Audacity of Struggle

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/29/the-audacity-of-struggle/

Chasing Down Fascists in Europe

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/23/chasing-down-fascists-in-europe/

Hunter S. Thompson: Chronicling the Republic’s Fall

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/16/hunter-s-thompson-chronicling-the-republics-fall/

Impeach!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/impeach/

Jim Crow Kills a Kid

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/02/jim-crow-kills-a-kid/

Refugees, A Hog Wallow, and the Midterms

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/refugees-a-hog-wallow-and-the-midterms/

HIstory is Not Kind

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/19/history-is-not-kind/

Betrayal and Treachery—The Extremism of Moderates

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/12/betrayal-and-treachery-the-extremism-of-moderates/

Culture and Politics, Culture and Capitalism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/culture-and-politics-culture-and-capitalism/

There Goes the Judge?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/there-goes-the-judge/

Faith, Madness or Death

A review of David Peace's novel Patient X
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/21/faith-madness-or-death/

From ROTC to Revolution

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/17/from-rotc-to-revolution-and-beyond/

A Guitarist's Wisdom

Jorma Kaukonen's biography--a consideration....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/07/a-guitarists-wisdom/

1968: I Certainly Wasn’t the Whole World, But I was Watching

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/31/1968-i-certainly-wasnt-the-whole-world-but-i-was-watch/

An Endless Highway of Death

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/24/an-endless-highway-of-death/

The Barbarism of US Immigration Policy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/17/the-barbarism-of-us-immigration-policy/

I Can't Find It in Me to Defend Alex Jones

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/09/i-cant-find-it-in-me-to-defend-alex-jones/

The Sixties: The Political and the Personal

The actual title of the new edition of George Katsiaficas' book is The Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/03/the-sixties-the-political-and-the-personal/

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/

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/

Acidhead on the Run

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/09/acidhead-on-the-run/

The Geography of Marxism--David Harvey's The Ways of the World

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/02/the-geography-of-marxism/

Stamping Out Hunger

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/stamping-out-hunger/

R.I.P. John Perry Barlow

https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/5-lessons-john-barlow-taught-world/

Re-visiting Gonzo....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/16/re-visiting-gonzo/

In the Spirit of the Tsar: FBI Informants on the Central Committee

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/in-the-spirit-of-the-tsar-fbi-informants-on-the-central-committee/

A History of Resistance--A Review of An African-American and Latinx History of the United States

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/02/a-history-of-resistance/

Still Tripping....a New Essay Collection

If 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

Art is a Hammer

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/26/art-is-a-hammer/

Whiteness and Working Folk

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/19/whiteness-and-working-folks/

The Vietnamese War: a Different Take

A review of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/12/the-vietnamese-war-a-different-take/

All You Fascists Bound to Lose

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/05/all-you-fascists-bound-to-lose/

Johnny Appleseed Gets a Comic Book

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/29/johnny-appleseed-gets-a-comic-book/

From Ginsberg to Gonzo

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/22/from-ginsberg-to-gonzo/

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/

Two Books, Two Recordings: Four Reviews

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/two-books-two-recordings-four-reviews/

Books to Consider-A Modest Promotion

 

For sale via online booksellers or through special order at your favorite bookstore......

More Than Just Symbols: The Chicano Resistance Movement

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/more-than-just-symbols-the-chicano-resistance-movement/

Private Property Does Not Equal Freedom

A review of Negri and Hardt's 2017 title Assembly...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/17/private-property-does-not-equal-freedom/

New York Panthers--A Legacy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/13/new-yorks-black-panthers-a-legacy/

Review of All the Sinners Saints by Michael Schiffmann

translated from the German

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B01dj5QyuLDeZDNsM2FVUUxraExLMkV3YlEyMTVObE5yRFNR

The Missouri Compromise and General Kelly

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/01/the-missouri-compromise-and-general-kelly/

Rebel Music

A look at the Liberation Music Collective's latest release....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/rebel-music-2/

Stop the Idiocy! Stop the Mattis-ness!

The (revised) toll in lives was: 36, 546 US soldiers, an estimated 1.5 million Koreans on both sides of the parallel (mostly civilians), 200,000 Chinese soldiers, and another 4000 soldiers from armies that allied themselves with the United States.  In addition, there were more than one million wounded and/or missing.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/20/stop-the-idiocy-stop-the-mattis-ness/

Can NATO Still Make America Great?

The link below goes to an article I wrote for the previous print edition of Counterpunch magazine.  I am sharing it in the hope that some of you who read it will then subscribe to the print version of Counterpunch.  Why should you do that since you can read Counterpunch online for free?  Because most of the articles in the print issues are not reprinted online is a good place to start....

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDed0gtT1JRREhod3NjeXRFRXZxOWZiUFdJOGVz/view?usp=sharing

If you want to subscribe, here is a link to do that.....
https://store.counterpunch.org/subscribe/

Thanks,
Ron

Riding the Dog

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/13/riding-the-dog/

Ain't No Equal Justice

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/aint-no-equal-justice/

Sharpening the Contradictions from the Fifty Yard Line

When I used to watch Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath throw the ball back in my earlier years, it seemed most NFL players were white.  They were also assumed to be very patriotic and supportive of the US war on Vietnam and in favor of the more conservative side of US politics.  Whether or not this was as universal as it seemed to be is hard to say since NFL players were not known for expressing their political views in public.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/27/sharpening-the-contradictions-from-the-fifty-yard-line/

Colonialism Never Gives Away Anything for Nothing

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/25/colonialism-never-gives-anything-away-for-nothing/

The Year of the Hippie Dream

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/15/the-year-of-the-hippie-dream/

If You Oppose Fascism, You Have to Oppose Fascists

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/08/if-you-oppose-fascism-you-have-to-oppose-fascists/

Gregor Samsa's Twentieth Century Blues

Renaissance man Marc Estrin publishes the director's cut of his 2002 novel.....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/05/gregor-samsas-twentieth-century-blues/

White People Must Destroy White Supremacy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/29/white-people-must-destroy-white-supremacy/

Bicoastal Beauty, Bicoastal Disgust

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/24/bicoastal-beauty-bicoastal-disgust/

Eve of Destruction...Or Revolution?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/08/eve-of-destructionor-revolution/

We Want the World and We Want it Now!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/31/we-want-the-world-and-we-want-it-now/

Dylan and Woody: Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/24/dylan-and-woody-goin-down-the-road-feelin-bad/

Enforcing the Red Scare—From the FBI to the VA

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/14/enforcing-the-red-scare-from-the-fbi-to-the-va/

I Was Born Here, So What?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/04/i-was-born-here-so-what/

Gonna' Have to Face It, You're Addicted to War

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/28/gonna-have-to-face-it-youre-addicted-to-war/

Andrew Jackson and the American Psyche

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/23/andrew-jackson-and-the-american-psyche/

Nazis and Racists I Should Have Punched

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/14/nazis-and-racists-i-should-have-punched/

A Century of Socialism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/09/a-century-of-socialism/

The Deep State is the State

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/26/the-deep-state-is-the-state/

Killing the Monsenor

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/19/killing-the-monsenor/

McMaster’s Civilized War for Civilization

Just because a general has a new way to fight a war doesn’t mean that war should be fought. The war in Afghanistan is not being incorrectly waged. Instead, it is the war and occupation of Afghanistan that is wrong.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/mcmasters-civilized-war-for-civilization/

Housing for People, Not for Profit

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/08/housing-for-people-not-for-profit/

Interview: US War Industry Profits from a Long War in Syria

http://www.muslimpress.com/Section-opinion-72/107815-us-war-industry-profits-enormously-from-long-war-in-syria