I have just finished reading American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen, who presented…
Noel Ignatiev
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…
Festival of Darkness
Last night I was in my car listening to a broadcast of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, one of my favorites,…
Sandal-Wearers and Gun-Toters
I recently picked up the summer 2010 issue of The Defenestrator, published in Philadelphia. Its masthead describes it as “a…
Memoir of an Ex-Jew 11: The Last Installment
What about anti-Semitism? Whoever asserted that U.S. foreign policy toward an entire region of the world was decisively shaped, against…
Memoir of an Ex-Jew 10
The Judaic religion and Talmudic Law contain many ugly elements: the atrocities proudly chronicled in Deuteronomy; the annual Passover celebration…