Norman Finkelstein spoke last night at Occupy Boston. He gave one of the most miserable performances I have ever witnessed,…
Noel Ignatiev’s Blog
The Clearing of Zuccotti Park
The overnight clearing of Zuccotti Park by the police, following similar actions by police in Denver, Portland, Oakland and Atlanta,…
Jubilee!
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…