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Just when the media in the US was getting ready to call the war in Iraq over, the US military and its…
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.
Pretty much everyone but the dead know that the US occupation of Iraq is now entering its sixth year. When one looks…
Recently, the Boston Globe reported that the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) had set up an offshore company to hire…
When we think of Paul Robeson, those of us who know his work hear that bass voice professing a melody like no…
On February 26, 2008 a public hearing was held at the city that bills itself as “the Secret City”–Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This…
The 19th of March, 2008 marks the beginning of the sixth year of the US war and occupation in Iraq. Hundreds of…
By now most everyone is familiar with the phenomenon known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. We associate this disorder primarily…
I used to umpire Little League baseball in the roughest section of Burlington, VT. Compared to so-called rough sections of bigger cities…
Fidel Castro is one of the great men of the past fifty years. Even his bitterest enemies acknowledge this by their continuing…
Carl Oglesby was once the president of the original Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Before that he was working for a…