Ron Jacobs

Ron Jacobs is the author of several books, including Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. His latest book, titled Reality, Resistance, Rock and Roll is a collection of book reviews written for Counterpunch over the years and is now available. He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: ronj1955@gmail.com 

Hamas Without the Hatred

2023—Darkness at the Break of Noon

Prison is a State of War

Rich Kid’s Resurrection in Annapolis—A Thought Experiment

Three Offerings from the Annals of Jazz

The Heartbreak of a Fatal Crash Compounded

Kissinger Finally Departs

Lone Wolf Nakba in Vermont?

The USA Gets High

Washington and Israel: A Murderous Relationship

The Reality of Washington’s Enterprise

Israel’s Gazan Slaughter, Bernie Sanders and a Ceasefire

Prisons are Not Progressive

When Accusations of Anti-Semitism Become a Tool of Repression

A Depository of Historical Knowledge

Blues, Bluegrass, Rock and Roll: A Weekend in the Park

The Common Thread is US Imperialism

David James Duncan’s Contemporary Western

There’s Still Time to Talk

The 1970s and Popular Struggle

NATO: Don’t Buy the Myth, Don’t Buy the Hype

Freedom, Madness and High Times

The Ultimate Bohemian

Afghanistan’s Sorrows

Capitalism is Still the Problem

The Defendant, Donald Trump

Traveling in the Wake of the Flood

The Cold War, Latin America and Washington, DC

Trying to Make a Living and Doing the Best They Could       

NATO’s Declaration of War

A Journey Through Many Worlds

Let’s Be Clear, Cluster Bombs are an Escalation

Jimmy Carter: The Bridge from Nixon to Reagan

Can’t Forget the Motor City

The Illustrated W. E. B. DuBois

Revolutionary Feminists After World War Two

The Iranian Students Association and the End of the Shah

A Tale of Cruelty and Criminality: Doug Valentine on the CIA

Killing Gandhi: The Legacy of an Assassination

Making Music with Meaning

Atomic Bamboozle: An Industry of Lies

Always a Carney at Heart

Is This What You Voted For?

Poverty is Political

The War Machine Keeps Turning

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Mammon and the Hippie Pope

Thirty-four Felony Charges is a Lot of Felony Charges

Making War Usually Means More War

The Free Pirate Nation

Maggie Thatcher Sucked, But the Music She Inspired Didn’t