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I am not a total pacifist, but I hate war. Time has shown me that it is always better to talk than…
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.
Most people reading this will agree that the recent actions by Congress and the White House demanding that railway workers accept the…
Thomas Ricks is a military historian. His writing usually explores the dynamics of military strategies in war. His book on the first…
The worst war criminals are those who plan wars, profit from wars, convince their citizens to go to war, and reject diplomacy that would prevent war
The concept we understood to be the USA is unraveling in a manner many might never have considered
Although the Blinken-Biden foreign policy approach may be more palatable to European governments and much of the US population, that doesn’t mean it’s that different from what preceded it.
Thomas C. Holt’s The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, is a brief exploration of the people in the Movement who did not make it into the history books
Keeping US forces there to support the US-funded regime in Kabul is an admission that Washington’s policy has failed
The fact of Facebook has created a situation where the Left often seems to have forgotten how to organize
If nothing else, Trump’s White House has proven that the president is above the law if and when he chooses to be