Road Trippin'

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/22/road-trippin/

Workingman’s Blues (COVID 19 Version)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/15/workingmans-blues-covid-19-version/

Burt Cohen's Keep Democracy Alive Podcast---Mayday 1971

http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/i-may-day-71-ii-silver-lining-of-pandemic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BurtCohen+%28Keeping+Democracy+Alive+with+Burt+Cohen%29

Jackson State Murders 1970

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/jackson-state-shootings-1970/

It's Still Too Early to Re-open

https://vtdigger.org/2020/05/01/ron-jacobs-its-still-too-early-to-reopen/

Running Wild in the Streets? Mayday 1971

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/29/wild-in-the-streets-mayday-1971/

Pandemic and Protest

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/20/pandemic-and-protest/

The Sixties in the City of the Fallen Angels

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/17/the-sixties-in-the-city-of-the-fallen-angels/

Women of Their Revolution

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/10/women-of-their-revolution/

Remembering John Prine

In 1972 I bought John Prine's first album at the Post Exchange in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. I played the album over and over again. I played three of the songs even more than the rest--Illegal Smile, Sam Stone, and Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore.  Those three reflected my particular take on the world at the time.  Sardonic humor, hatred of the US war machine and a determination not to end up like Sam Stone with a hole in my arm where all the money goes because I had to fight and kill in Vietnam. I graduated from high school the following year and went off to college.  I remember playing Bette Midler’s version of Prine’s “Hello in There” for a guy in my dorm.  At first he made fun of it and then he borrowed the record.  The song about lonely old people reminded him of his grandparents, he said.  I recorded the Prine record for that city boy from the Bronx and he thanked me profusely.

In 1974 I was living in Maryland at my parents and working as a short order cook in the town they lived in.  John Prine was one of the musicians playing at a folk festival in Wolf Trap, VA.  Some friends of mine from high school asked me if I wanted to go.  They had a car.  I didn’t drive.  The three of us went to the festival along with the younger sister of one of them and her friend.  We also had a case of beer and I had some weed.  The main concerts didn’t begin until early evening, but the rest of the day was filled up with workshops put on by some of the artists playing at the festival.  John Prine was one of them.  Both of my friends were pretty good guitarists and we all like John Prine’s music, even though he only had the one album out then.  So we took our beer and headed to his workshop.  We were the only people there at the beginning.   My friends took out their guitars and started playing with John.  A song or two later, we all cracked a can of beer and began drinking.  It turned into quite a workshop.  Prine was friendly, easygoing and thirsty.

As the years went by, Prine recorded numerous albums and I bought most of them. I saw him play at the Philly Folk Fest, a club in DC, and at a couple other festivals in the 1970s and 1980s.  Two of his biggest fans must include one of my younger brothers and a former brother-in-law.  His songs can be haunting, humorous, harrowing and happy—sometimes all at once. I hate to see him go.

Seattle-Anti-Capitalist Hotbed

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/seattle-anti-capitalist-hotbed/

Going After Maduro

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/30/going-after-maduro/

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ENDS MAY 31, 2020

Politics, Pandemics and Trumpism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/27/politics-pandemics-and-trumpism/

Manifesting Radical Feminism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/20/manifesting-radical-feminism/

Marching with the Maoists

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/marching-with-the-maoists/

Checking in From Bernie World

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/04/checking-in-from-bernie-world/

Bloomberg's Billionaire BS

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/28/bloombergs-billionaire-bs/

The Young Lords: Luchadores Para La Gente

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/21/the-young-lords-luchadores-para-la-gente/

The Lies of Industry and the Liars Who Sell Them

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/14/the-lies-of-industry-and-the-liars-who-sell-them/

I Want to Be a Paperback Writer

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/i-want-to-be-a-paperback-writer/

The Swamp That Trump Built

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/the-swamp-that-trump-built/

A Cesspool of Constitutional Nonsense-Impeachment in the Senate

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/23/a-cesspool-of-constitutional-nonsense-impeachment-in-the-senate/

Abusing America’s Children—Free Market Policy

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/17/abusing-americas-children-free-market-policy/

Iranian Opposition 1970s to 2020

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/14/iranian-opposition-1970s-to-2020-2/

Fracking and the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/fracking-and-the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/

Just Get the Hell Out

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/08/just-get-the-hell-out/

2020 Hindsight

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/03/2020-hindsight-2/

The Power of Song

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/the-power-of-song/

A Tempestuous Noise

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/20/a-tempestuous-noise/

The Wind That Shook the Barley: the Politics of the IRA

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-wind-that-shook-the-barley-the-politics-of-the-ira/

Where Justice is a Game: Impeachment Hearings Redux

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/where-justice-is-a-game-impeachment-hearings-redux/

Law Seminar in the Hearing Room: Impeachment Day Six

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/law-seminar-in-the-hearing-room-impeachment-day-six/

Just Part of Doing Business

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/just-part-of-doing-business/

Trumpism: Winter in America

An updated collection of my writing on Trumpism.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gqcaymRIKK7-Ermm5ag33mv2MIGFIhbc

Talking to Rudy, Trumpist Hand Grenade: Impeachment Days Four and Five

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/22/talking-to-rudy-trumpist-hand-grenade-impeachment-days-four-and-five/

The Trumpists’ Attempts at Snark Define Their Day: Impeachment Day Three

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/20/the-trumpists-attempts-at-snark-define-their-day-impeachment-day-three/

Stefanik Stands By Her Man and Roger Stone Gets Convicted on All Counts: Impeachment Day Two

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/stefanik-stands-by-her-man-and-roger-stone-gets-convicted-on-all-counts-impeachment-day-two-2/

Trump’s Drug Deal Goes to Congress: Impeachment, Day One

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/14/trumps-drug-deal-goes-to-congress-impeachment-day-one/

The Boos at the Ballgame Were Just the Beginning, Mr. Trump

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/04/the-boos-at-the-ballgame-were-just-the-beginning-mr-trump/

The Blues Had a White Baby and His Name was Michael Bloomfield

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/the-blues-had-a-white-baby-and-his-name-was-michael-bloomfield/

The Essence of War

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-essence-of-war/

Calling the Kettle White: Ishmael Reed Unbound

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/18/calling-the-kettle-white-ishmael-reed-unbound/

Betrayal in the Levant

Furthermore, those who demand that the troops remain, demand a no-fly zone or some other type of military intervention are not only supporting US imperial policy, they are ultimately denying the Kurds their own agency and, by portraying them as victims who need US support, they are diminishing their struggle.  To be blunt, it reeks of arrogance and paternalism.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/15/betrayal-in-the-levant/

Talking About Socialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN5ktZTnVng

Is the US Political System Beyond Repair?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/02/is-the-us-political-system-beyond-repair/

Are We Possessed by Our Possessions?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/27/are-we-possessed-by-our-possessions/

Support the Climate Strike, Not a Military Strike

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/18/support-the-climate-strike-not-a-military-strike/

Is Killing Peasants Protecting America’s Interests?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/11/is-killing-peasants-protecting-americas-interests/

A Battle for Existence

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/06/a-battle-for-existence/

Beyond Protest

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/30/beyond-protest/

Meditation on a Racist Nation

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/meditation-on-a-racist-nation/

People's Music for the Soul

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/peoples-music-for-the-soul/

What's Left After Liberalism

From the vlogger The Plebis Project---check it out.....not just this interview but some of the other stuff on the channel, too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_r7Hnnz-2o

The Global Lockdown

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/the-global-lockdown/

Israel: The Largest US Aircraft Carrier in the World

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/israel-the-largest-us-aircraft-carrier-in-the-world/

Genocide from Kissinger to Trump

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/genocide-from-kissinger-to-trump/

Dancing with Dr. Benway

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/dancing-with-dr-benway/

Presidential Papers

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/presidential-papers/

The American Dream Drives a Tank Down Pennsylvania Ave.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/04/the-american-dream-drives-a-tank-down-pennsylvania-ave/

The Watchmakers Revolution

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/watchmakers-revolution/

The Redemptive Essence of History

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/the-redemptive-essence-of-history/

Scott Noble's History of Resistance

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/scott-nobles-history-of-resistance/

Free the Seattle 7! A Persecution From the Past

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/free-the-seattle-7-a-persecution-from-the-past/

The Conspiracy of Capital

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/31/burlington-vermont-jared-kushner-and-the-conspiracy-of-capital/

Another One Moves On: Roz Payne, Presente!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/24/another-one-moves-on-roz-payne-presente/

Uncle Sam Needs Our Help Again?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/17/uncle-sam-needs-our-help-again/

Let a Thousand Parks Bloom

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/10/let-a-thousand-parks-bloom/

Making (and Raising) Babies in the USA

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/making-and-raising-babies-in-the-usa/

Hating the Homeless

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/hating-the-homeless/

Ho Chi Minh City: Nguyen Thai Binh Street

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/19/ho-chi-minh-city-nguyen-thai-binh-street/

Down the Rabbit Hole-Leary as Fiction

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/15/down-the-rabbit-hole-leary-as-fiction/

An Edifice that Produces Beggars Needs Restructuring

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/an-edifice-that-produces-beggars-needs-restructuring/

Cold War in the Land of Oil

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/29/cold-war-in-the-land-of-oil/

Donald Cox: Tale of a Panther

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/donald-cox-tale-of-a-panther/

All the Livelong Day

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/15/all-the-livelong-day/

Hijack the Starship, Major Tom

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/08/hijack-the-starship-major-tom/

Anarchy in the USA

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/01/anarchy-in-the-usa-2/

Twenty-first Century Indian Wars

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/22/twenty-first-century-indian-wars/ 

Day of Remembrance and the Music of Anthony Brown: An Interview

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/19/day-of-remembrance-and-the-music-of-anthony-brown/

Maduro, Guaidó and American Exceptionalism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/15/maduro-guaido-and-american-exceptionalism/

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/