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2007 ended with a whimper in Iraq. The final attack occurred in the town of Mishada and took at least twelve lives. …
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.
The recent uprisings and eventual electoral success of the Movimiento a Socialismo (MAS) in Bolivia is one of the most hopeful historical…
“Antiwar groups retreat on funding fight” read the headlines. The story underneath describes a retreat by MoveOn and other liberal elements of…
When I was hanging out with the youth element of the Revolutionary Unions (RU) back in the early to mid-1970s, there was…
Hamid Dabashi’s 2006 book on Iran turns conventional western scholarship on that country upside down. By rejecting the dynamic that counterpoises so-called…
Okay. I’m going to state the obvious here. After all, somebody needs to say it. In fact, everybody who sees it needs…
So they lied again. And again. Despite the fact that the Bush administration knew quite well that its very own intelligence estimate…
Making occupation and calling it peace. Killing fewer and calling it progress. Rotating troops and calling it a withdrawal. Setting up new…
I first heard “Alice‘s Restaurant” in 1968 on Washington DC‘s underground radio station WHFS. The most memorable time I heard it was…
Kennebunkport is a vacation home of the Bushes and the place where many of America’s wealthy like to “recreate as they wish,”…