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It’s the perennial thorn in the colonialist’s side. It’s the war that won’t go away. It’s a wasp sting that swells, slowly…
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.
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It is fair to say that the antiwar movement in the US is moribund. A movement that put a million people in…
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April 4, 1968 was the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. He had been working with the…