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Howard LisnoffCounterPunch |
When I read Thomas Gaither’s obituary in the New York Times, “Thomas GaitherKeep Your Head Down, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins,...
Although some on the left have minimized the potential for mayhem in a second Trump administration, I’m not sanguine at all. Many like to point to...
“Since his death, Jimmy Carter has been lauded for brokering the Camp David Accords and for his post-White House mission to help the poor and battle...
The New York Times article about the mass deportation of about 11 million people begins with an analogy of those people encompassing a number of...
The 1969 movie, Alice’s Restaurant, seems like a fair and in fact great depiction of what the 1960s counterculture was like and what the zeitgeist...
There’s a dialogue in Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories (1980) when Allen’s character, Sandy Bates, a filmmaker, begins a discussion with a group of...
Russell Jacoby’s Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology from Adler to Lang (1975) has a black and white copy of Sleepers by George...
When the subway riders boarded the 1 train at 116th Street on Manhattan’s West Side, it was apparent that many riders on this Labor Day were...
It’s difficult to view the presidential election as anything but fluff with about 10 weeks left until November. In the US, the electorate has been...