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Bohmer: Transcontinental Occupation--Transcontinental Conversation
Commentary, November, 19 2011
Peter Bohmer
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A conversation on the Occcupy Movemement
Jacobs: The Arrogance of Empire, Detailed
Znet Article, January, 20 2010
Ron Jacobs
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In the first week of 2010, five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. The last week of 2009 saw the deaths of eight CIA agents there. Several more Afghan civilians were killed during this period, including the apparent executions of several youn...
Jacobs: An Injury To One Is An Injury To All: An Interview With Sherry Wolf
Znet Article, October, 03 2009
Ron Jacobs
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On October 11th, 2009, a march billed as the National March for Equality will take place in Washington, DC. The organizers of the march are organizing under a single demand: "Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states....
Jacobs: Preventive Detention and Torture--The Morality of the Civilized Savage
Znet Article, May, 30 2009
Ron Jacobs
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Dick Cheney believes that the torture of terror suspects prevented another attack on US soil. Barack Obama believes that terror suspects should be held indefinitely without charges. Both men claim that the measures they support are allowable in ...
Jacobs: The New Iraqi Sovereignty, Just Like The Palestinians Have In Gaza?
Znet Article, January, 02 2009
Ron Jacobs
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There's got to be some irony in the US transference of control to Iraqi security forces while the Israelis pound Gaza. Why? Because, despite the hoopla in the US press and its Iraqi clones, the nature of the control being "given back" to the Ira...
Jacobs: UE Local 1110-Think Like Them
Znet Article, December, 09 2008
Ron Jacobs
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I have to be honest here. I don't understand all the stuff coming across the news media about short selling and bank collapses, but I do understand this. There is a lot of money somewhere in the world and it is produced by the people who work, n...
Jacobs: Moving Beyond Hope-A Leftist Looks at the Near Future
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Ron Jacobs
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I can't deny the exhilaration I felt on Tuesday, November 4th when the presidential election was called for Barack Obama. When people in my working class multiethnic neighborhood started setting off firecrackers and shouting out their windows, my...
Jacobs: Borders Are For Sissies
Znet Article, November, 01 2008
Ron Jacobs
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The news reports were uncertain at first. Did a US military unit attack a village in Syria? Did they kill eight people? Decisive words from military spokespeople did not come...
Jacobs: How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away-Iraq and Washington
Znet Article, October, 24 2008
Ron Jacobs
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I should be used to it by now, but I'm not. When I read statements from US policymakers telling the world that Iraq is still not capable of defending itself without US help, I am still angered and amazed at the bold-faced arrogance. Most recentl...
Jacobs: She Ain't No Union Maid
Znet Article, September, 09 2008
Ron Jacobs
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The recent selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee has revived the media's interest in what they love to call the white working class in the United States. Her husband, write commentators across the spectrum, is a unio...
Jacobs: The Perishing Republicans, Twin City Cops, and the RNC 8
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Let me begin this piece by stating that I don't give a rat's ass about the Jerry Springer-like drama playing out around the GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. Let me also state that I seriously wonder how long it will be before the folks tha...
Jacobs: Georgia and Historical Farce
Znet Article, August, 19 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Karl Marx once wrote, "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” He wrote these words in his opening paragraph...
Jacobs: A Review of Nikolas Kozloff's "Revolution!"
Znet Article, July, 27 2008
Ron Jacobs
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As it has been throughout much of its history, today's Latin America is a continent of change. Unlike much of its history, the forces that seem to have the upper hand right now are those that have been historically shut out. The poor, the indigeno...
Jacobs: Afghanistan--It's Not the "Good War"
Znet Article, July, 21 2008
Ron Jacobs
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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 choking the life out of the sting's recipient. It is the nearly seven-year old occupation of Afghanistan by the United St...
Jacobs: Who Will Leave First--al-Maliki or US Forces?
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Recently, Washington's man in Baghdad Nouri al-Maliki has been making noises about the need to set a "hard" timetable detailing the departure of US occupation forces from Iraq. One wonders if Mr. al-Maliki is sincere in his demand or if he is pos...
Jacobs: SOS, Different Year
Znet Article, June, 28 2008
Ron Jacobs
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In the good ol' USA, I'm considered a white guy. Despite my leftist/anarcho politics and my preference for news that isn't filtered through the capitalist media, I'm a white guy as far as polling demographics go. I've got friends who fear immigr...
Jacobs: Vietnam Blues: A Review of Joe Allen's Vietnam: The (Last) War the US Lost
Znet Article, June, 23 2008
Ron Jacobs
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There have been several histories of the US war in Vietnam by US writers. Very few of them have stood the test of time. Marilyn Young's Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 and Bernard Fall's Street Without Joy stand out in my mind as two that have, even thou...
Jacobs: Trouble On the Way: A Review of Jeffrey St. Clair's Born Under a Bad Sky
Znet Article, June, 17 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Grizzly bears and gray wolves. John McCain and Al Gore. Hog farming and the Endangered Species Act. All of these and more are the focus of Jeffrey St. Clair's latest book Born Under a Bad Sky. Myths of governmental efforts to protect the enviro...
Jacobs: CPR For the Antiwar Movement
Znet Article, May, 22 2008
Ron Jacobs
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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 the streets a month before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and has drawn as many as half-a-million protesters to protests as recently as Janua...
Jacobs: Go to Work, Go to Jail
Znet Article, May, 14 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Recently, more than 100 workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard to protest conditions similar to slavery.
