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Most US residents probably remember the 1997 strike by United Parcel Service (UPS) workers against the company. It was, after all, one…
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.
There’s a novel by Russian author Ilya Ehrenburg titled The Life of the Automobile that chronicles humanity’s relationship with that form of…
Becoming politically aware in the 1960s and 1970s, one heard and read a lot about the Third World. Not only did the…
When one thinks of militant political action taking place in the United States, their thoughts usually turn to cities like San Francisco,…
Ever since the Palestinian resistance organization won the Palestinian elections in January 2006, their role in Palestinian politics and the world has…
Huh? According to Condi Rice, the US attempt to put missile shields in Poland and the Czech Republic is to counter some…
In the territories of Palestine, an internecine war ebbs and flows between the factions that represent the Palestinians. Simultaneously, the military forces…
The first time I remember going inside the Pentagon was in 1969 when I was 14. My dad was coming back from…
Recent media reports about Iran suggest that President Ahmadinejad has run slightly afoul of the clerics in that country’s Council of Guardians.…
I recently reviewed a DVD about a group of Black Panthers who were tortured in 1973 by New Orleans police during interrogations…