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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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....

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article Jacobs: Without Freedom of Speech, I Might Be in the Swamp

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Kennebunkport is a vacation home of the Bushes and the place where many of America’s wealthy like to “recreate as they wish,” as George HW Bush’s said in 1990 as he prepared to send the US military into Iraq. It is now also a battleground over fr...

Znet Article Jacobs: Sitting On the Group W Bench-War and Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Ron Jacobs
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I first heard “Alice's Restaurant” in 1968 on Washington DC's underground radio station WHFS. The most memorable time I heard it was in May 1970 on the day after the military murders at Kent State when a friend read it in homeroom at the junior ...

Znet Article Jacobs: Banning SDS In Olympia—Politically Charged Suspension Of Student Group By College Administration

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Recently, the Evergreen State College branch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was suspended by the college administration from the campus in Olympia, Washington. This suspension occurred following a series of events that began after a p...

Znet Article Jacobs: Banning SDS In Olympia—Politically Charged Suspension Of Student Group By College Administration

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Recently, the Evergreen State College branch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was suspended by the college administration from the campus in Olympia, Washington. This suspension occurred following a series of events that began after a p...

Znet Article Jacobs: The Myths and Lies of Military Progress

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Making occupation and calling it peace. Killing fewer and calling it progress. Rotating troops and calling it a withdrawal. Setting up new death squads and calling them allies. Lowering standards and calling it opening new opportunities.

Znet Article Jacobs: Washington, al-Maliki and the Militias

Znet Article, April, 21 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Recently, the Green Zone parliament in Baghdad drafted a law that would forbid any political party that has an armed wing from participating in the upcoming regional elections in Iraq. This law comes on the heels of an announcement by the Green Z...

Znet Article Jacobs: Bobby Hutton and Martin Luther King, Jr.--Forty Years On

Znet Article, April, 03 2008 Ron Jacobs
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April 4, 1968 was the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee...

Znet Article Jacobs: If It Explodes, It Will Crush Their Rotten Heads

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Ron Jacobs
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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 client regime stationed in the Green Zone decided to take on the Iraqi population that looks to Muqtada al-Sadr and their armed forces. One can ...

Znet Article Jacobs: Who Will Stop the Rain?

Znet Article, March, 18 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Pretty much everyone but the dead know that the US occupation of Iraq is now entering its sixth year. When one looks for comparable circumstances in recent history, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land of course comes to mind, but so does th...

Znet Article Jacobs: “All the Money You Make Will Never Buy Back Your Soul”--A Review of Solomon Hughes' War On Terror, Inc.

Znet Article, March, 13 2008 Ron Jacobs
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Recently, the Boston Globe reported that the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) had set up an offshore company to hire close to half of the men and women working for KBR in Iraq as contractors. According to the report, this enable...

Znet Article Jacobs: Walking the Lonely Road:A Review of Paul Robeson's Words of Freedom

Znet Article, March, 08 2008 Ron Jacobs
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When we think of Paul Robeson, those of us who know his work hear that bass voice professing a melody like no other voice bass ever recorded. His voice on “Ol' Man River” is the undercurrent of that mighty river pulling the silt across its bottom ...

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