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June 1, 2007 saw the first of what is certain to be many dates celebrated in the media forty years after…
Ron Jacobs
Ron Jacobs is the author of several books, including Daydream Sunset: 60s Counterculture in the '70s, The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground, and Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch. His articles, reviews and essays have appeared in anthologies and numerous print and online journals, including Jungle World Berlin, Monthly Review, The Sri Lanka Guardian, Vermont Times, Alternative Press Review, and the Olympia, WA-based monthly Works In Progress.
Dave Zirin loves sports. He is also one of sports sharpest critics. And he’s pretty damn funny. His newest book Welcome to…
I have to admit that I was quite surprised when I read that Cindy Sheehan is leaving the peace movement. After reading…
Writing In An Age of Silence (Verso 2007) Sara Paretsky is known for her crime fiction. One of the first…
Can’t someone just shut him up? I know I’m not the only person who is sick of Dick Cheney’s blustering belligerence. Hell,…
On April 18, 2007, a protest against the war in Iraq at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison turned into…
It’s hard for some of us who were around to remember and even more difficult for those who weren’t to believe, but…
As an email acquaintance and veteran of the Columbia 1968 uprising recently reminded me, we are creeping up on the thirty-ninth anniversary…
When I was in high school, I lived on a military base and socialized and worked with GIs opposed to the…
I’ve been listening to Wynton Marsalis’ new disc From the Plantation to the Penitentiary a lot. It’s got the music — a…