Jubilee! Proclaim liberty throughout the land—Leviticus 25:10 In ancient times there existed a tradition of periodically canceling all debts. It…
My Nine-Eleven
On September 11, 2001 I was delivering a lecture in my first-year survey class in U.S. history. Since it was…
Their Disorder Is Our Hope
Since the beginning of the “uprising” and NATO bombardment in Libya, opinion in “progressive” circles has been of two schools:…
All Power to the Imagination…Again.
Then I ask, “What color is an FBI agent?” A few stammer and stutter objections—I do teach in Berkeley, California…
Nonnonviolent Nonnonlegitimate
I have just finished reading American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen, who presented…
The Modern Lincoln
I read the other day that a columnist in Ha’aretz (the soft-zionist Israeli newspaper) said, “Obama murdered bin Laden for…
Beyond Current Notions of the Possible
On Jan. 26 of this year, Michael Neumann published an article in Counterpunch in which he denounced “Puritans” of the…
Animal Resistance
On Feb 25, 2010 the Counterpunch website ran an article by Jason Hribal recounting how two orca whales, “Nootka” and…
What Next?
After spending ten years and goodness-knows-how-many millions of dollars, the omniscient US “intelligence” forces claim to have succeeded in tracking…
Keep a Sharp Eye Out!
In a speech delivered in Boston on April 12, 1852, Wendell Phillips declared, “I do not believe that, if we…