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/

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

youtube.com

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/