"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."

--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast

Friday, January 30, 2026

Board of Peace?

Counterpunch has three articles on the trumpist board of peace in this weekend's edition (and Jeffrey St. Clair titles his Roaming Charges Board of Peace, although it's about a lot more than that).  Here's my piece:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/board-of-peace/

File:Flohri cartoon about the Philippines as a bridge to China.jpg 

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