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

Hate Speech as Free Speech, How Does That Work Exactly?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/28/hate-speech-as-free-speech-how-does-that-work-exactly/

One Hundred Years That Shook the World

It’s as if John Reed, author of the classic piece of revolutionary journalism, Ten Days That Shook the World, woke from a decades-long sleep to tell the story of 1917 once again.  Although there is less personal detail, the sweep of Miéville’s story is equal to Reed’s in its breadth while matching it in passion.  It is Reed’s contention that the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers were at the front of the revolution.  One hundred years later, Miéville’s telling agrees.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/27/one-hundred-years-that-shook-the-world/

Syria: Beyond Western Myths and Half-Truths

A book about history that is ignored by so many....not meant as an endorsement of Assad and his army but certain to be taken that way by those unwilling or unable to look at the broader picture...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/11/syria-beyond-western-myths-and-half-truths/

Is There Anything Left to Us But to Organize and Fight?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/07/is-there-anything-left-to-us-but-to-organize-and-fight/

Mad Dog, Meet Eris, Queen of Strife

This isn't reason.  It is madness.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/mad-dog-meet-eris-queen-of-strife/

Music is Love, Music is Politics

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/24/music-is-love-music-is-politics/

Sharp Mind, Sharp Pen: Stuart Hall in Retrospect

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/17/sharp-mind-sharp-pen-stuart-hall-in-retrospect/

Islam: A Conversation on Paper

"Mourad and Anderson recently published a book titled The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson. It is a text with a grand mission: to introduce and inform non-Muslims of the history, and philosophical underpinnings and debates that make up the Islamic religion.Despite its rather small size, the book manages to succeed in its task."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/06/islam-a-conversation-on-paper/

Empire in Crisis: “I Did Not Have a Meeting With That Envoy!”

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/empire-in-crisis-i-did-not-have-a-meeting-with-that-envoy/

The Realist: Irreverence was Their Only Sacred Cow

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/24/the-realist-irreverence-was-their-only-sacred-cow/

U.S. Imperial War Personified

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/17/u-s-imperial-war-personified/

Revolution and the Color Line

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/10/revolution-and-the-color-line/

Fomite Interrogations

Fomite Press, which published my novels (so far) has begun a political pamphlet series.  Here is their explanation of the project:
"Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite would like to step outside its normal literary publishing practice, and add to its offerings a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint."

The titles are interesting and provocative.  My contribution to the project is titled Capitalism: Is the Problem...

Here is a link with more information and ordering details:
http://www.fomitepress.com/Tracts.html

Trumpism's Gleichschaltung?

As far as Bannon is concerned, a better comparison would be this: Steven Bannon is to Donald Trump what Josef Goebbels was to Hitler.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/trumpisms-gleichschaltung/

Sanctuary Status a Human Rights Issue, not Financial

If we don’t stand up for the rights of immigrants, who will be the next target of the forces now in control in Washington, D.C.?

https://vtdigger.org/2017/01/30/ron-jacobs-sanctuary-status-human-rights-issue-not-financial/

A Scheme is Not a Vision

If the bedrock of Trumpism is total allegiance to his version of the American state, the bedrock of our politics should be total opposition to Trumpism.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/a-scheme-is-not-a-vision/

Singing the Body Electric Across Time: A Review of Rebel Crossings.....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/20/singing-the-body-electric-across-time/

Striking in Reagan Time

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/13/striking-in-reagan-time/

Warm San Francisco Nights

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/06/warm-san-francisco-nights/

2016 What Have You Wrought

Darkness at the Break of noon....
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/2016-what-have-you-wrought/

Democracy is Gone in the USA

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/23/democracy-is-gone-in-the-usa/

Bargaining for Salvation in the Devil’s Arena

According to the legend, Jes’ Grew comes and goes. Its peaks in the past one hundred years include the jazz age and the age of Rock and roll and Rhythm and Blues. One might argue that certain dance music of the current period might also be a hearkening of the Jes’ Grew infestation, but I think its insistence on mechanization renders its inclusion unlikely. However, Jes’ Grew will never die. And it gestates in festivals like Warren Haynes annual benefit show in Asheville, North Carolina. If it doesn’t save your soul, at least it makes you feel like living for another day.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/16/bargaining-for-salvation-in-the-devils-arena/

Surviving Hate and Death: The AIDS Crisis in the 1980s

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/surviving-hate-and-death-the-aids-crisis-in-1980s-usa/

Selling Racism--A Lesson From South Africa

The movement against South African apartheid was perhaps the most universal and popular movement in the western world in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands protested in a multitude of ways—from letter-writing campaigns to shantytown occupations of city squares and college campus greens.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/selling-racism-a-lesson-from-pretoria/

The Monstrous, the Sublime and the Plainly Wondrous

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/25/the-monstrous-the-sublime-and-the-plainly-wondrous/

Alice D. Millionaire—Owsley and the Counterculture

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/14/alice-d-millionaire-owsley-and-the-counterculture/

The Flim Flam Man

It's so damn American. The settler class of white Europeans living away from the big mean city get conned by a loudmouth bullshittin' big city con man who has never made an honest buck in his life. He plays into their fears; of brown skinned foreigners, angry black people still pissed about their ancestors being enslaved, uppity women who misuse the rights they got, and big city banks and financiers who just want to take their money and their land.  Promising to keep the scared people safe, the film-flam man goes back to his rich friends, laughing to himself about how he loves the uneducated. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/09/the-flim-flam-man-does-pennsylvania-avenue/

The Greeks, the Troika, Resistance and History

As we head into 2017, the world seems to be heading towards even greater uncertainty.  The nationalist rejection of the EU in Britain, the uncertain meaning of the US election and future (at this writing) results, a seeming desire by western capitals and Russia for greater war in the Middle East, and various artificial bubbles created and maintained by the gamblers in the financial markets; all of these seem to point to more of the same for Greece with an ever growing likelihood that the next burst financial bubble will take down more than just those economies considered on the fringe of the central markets.  This uncertainty alone is reason enough to read this book. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/the-greeks-the-troika-resistance-and-history/

Death to the Fascist Insect! The SLA and the Cops

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/28/death-to-the-fascist-insect-the-sla-and-the-cops/

A Theory of Despair? The Frankfurt School Gets a Biography

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/21/a-theory-of-despair/

STFU About World War Three Already

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/14/stfu-about-world-war-three-already/

A Brief History of the Last Fifty Years in This Nation of Swine

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/11/a-brief-history-of-the-last-fifty-years-in-this-nation-of-swine/

Studs Terkel--Interpreter of America

A review of Alan Wieder's new biography...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/07/studs-terkel-interpreter-of-america/

A Cycle of Death Underscored by Greed and a Lust for Power--On Vijay Prashad's Latest Book

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/30/a-cycle-of-death-underscored-by-greed-and-a-lust-for-power/

Killing Unarmed People is Murder

Regarding police killings of unarmed individuals....
https://vtdigger.org/2016/09/21/ron-jacobs-killling-unarmed-people-murder/

A Change Has Gotta' Come

"Ideally, Demand the Impossible! would be distributed for free at every rally and meeting called to discuss the issues explored therein.  It is not the only book or article that provides an outline of what must be done, but it is certainly one of the most concise and evocatively written ones.  Imagine a series of speeches designed to inspire and teach; to move us from frustration and apathy to the streets; that is what this book is all about."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/23/a-change-has-gotta-come/

Interview on International Peace Day

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/406568/Activists-say-war-not-a-moral-answer-to-inequalities-in-the

The Daily Courage of Resistance--Viewing the film Peace Has No Borders

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/16/the-daily-courage-of-resistance/

Attica Means Fight Back!

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/attica-means-fight-back/

Education for Liberation

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/26/education-for-liberation/

Interview With Algerian Journalist Mohsen Abdelmoumen

In English:
http://ahtribune.com/politics/1141-ron-jacobs.html

En Francais:

http://www.palestine-solidarite.org/analyses.mohsen_abdelmoumen.140816.htm

https://www.oximity.com/article/Ron-Jacobs-l-Occident-a-besoin-des-ter-1

The Lawyer as Hero

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/12/the-lawyer-as-hero/

Puerto Rico is a Colony No Matter How Else You Dress It Up

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/05/puerto-rico-is-a-colony-no-matter-how-else-you-dress-it-up/

Something Besides Politics for the Summer's End

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/29/something-besides-politics-for-summers-end/

Exacerbate the Split in the Ruling Class

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/22/exacerbate-the-split-in-the-ruling-class/

Apres Nice: Why We Need an Antiwar Movement

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/15/apres-nice-why-we-need-an-antiwar-movement/

Gentrify it All!

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/05/gentrify-it-all/

An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/08/an-immediate-end-to-police-brutality-and-murder-of-black-people-by-police/

Is Everything Permitted? Review of Sin, Sex and Subversion

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/24/is-everything-permitted/

The Show's Over, On With the Show

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/09/the-shows-over-on-with-the-show/

The State of the Left: Many Movements, Too Many Goals?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/30/the-state-of-the-left-many-movements-too-many-goals/

Let the Games Begin: Behind the Olympic Sheen

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/20/let-the-games-begin-behind-the-olympic-sheen/

Opposing the Lies Military Recruiters Tell

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/13/opposing-military-recruiters-lies/

Psychedelic Rangers Extraordinaire

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/06/psychedelic-rangers-extraordinaire/

The Battle at Big Brown: Joe Allen's The Package King

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/29/the-battle-at-big-brown-joe-allens-the-package-king/

Management: Your Friend Until They Aren’t

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/22/management-your-friend-until-they-arent/

Call Me Zimmerman--Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/call-me-zimmerman-bob-dylans-great-white-wonder/

Oakland, Hutton and Grant

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/08/oakland-hutton-and-grant/

Meursault and the Sickness of Imperialism

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/miersault-and-the-sickness-of-imperialism/

Homage to Aleppo

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/homage-to-aleppo/

Stray Cat Blues

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/stray-cat-blues/

Don't Believe the Bullshit, Trump is Not the Answer

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/14/dont-believe-the-bullshit-trump-is-not-the-answer/

A Crisis with No Capitalist Way Out

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/11/a-crisis-with-no-capitalist-way-out/

Why Super Tuesday isn't Really That Super

The sentence regarding RFK should read "did not have a serious lead over McCarthy in the delegate count"....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/01/why-super-tuesday-isnt-really-that-super/

The Failure of a System: A Review of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/26/the-failure-of-a-system/

Talkin' World War Three Blues

Originally published in Counterpunch print magazine, December 2015...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_JNNpeclBPIic6gWrNEv2_frDyzMhBKHi_vKI-TLpHs/pub

Fire and Blood, Socialism or Barbarism

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/fire-and-blood-socialism-or-barbarism/

Springsteen: Rockin’ the House in Albany, NY

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/rockin-the-house-in-albany-ny/

Cold Weather Comforts....--Some Capsule Reviews for Groundhog Day

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/05/cold-weather-comforts-of-a-certain-sort/

Solitary Hell: There but for Fortune

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/29/solitary-hell-there-but-for-fortune/

Can We Escape the Eternal Flame?

         

Love, war and peace. Passions transcending time and as permanent as the history being made. Manhattan, 911, and desire. Vietnam, Berkeley and the road. Three main characters personify them all. This novella is a reflection of the time and on the times.

and a link to order it:

Can We Escape the Eternal Flame?  

By Ron Jacobs

Also available from Amazon and other online bookstores. 

ISBN-13:  978-1523695744

thanks....

The Madness of Reason

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/22/the-madness-of-reason/

Anarchy in the USA

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/15/anarchy-in-the-usa/

Mein Trumpf Makes a Stop in Vermont

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/08/mein-trumpf-makes-a-stop-in-vermont/

A History Defined by the Trade in Human Beings

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/31/a-history-defined-by-the-trade-in-human-beings/

Leningrad, Shostakovich and the Music of Transcendence

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/25/leningrad-shostakovich-and-the-music-of-transcendence/

We have Nothing to Lose But Our Nightmares

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/18/we-have-nothing-to-lose-but-our-nightmares/

Review of All the Sinners Saints from Michael Schiffman (auf Deutsch)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeM0J2U1NLNU5TeVB3WnlzUzFTb2ZCTkFMUGhR/view?usp=sharing

The Radical Priest From Quebec

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/11/the-radical-priest-from-quebec/

Public by Definition

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/04/public-by-definition/