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Ron Jacobs

Burlington
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Ron Jacobs is the author of Daydream Sunset: 60s Counterculture in the '70s, The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Verso 1997) the novels, Short Order Frame Up, The Co-Conspirator’s Tale and a collection of essays titled Tripping Through the American Night. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch. His articles, reviews and essays have appeared in anthologies and numerous print and online journals, including Jungle World Berlin, Monthly Review, The Sri Lanka Guardian,…

Ron Jacobs’s Journalist Portfolio

Leningrad, Shostakovich and the Music of Transcendence

Leningrad, Shostakovich and the Music of Transcendence

Before I began writing this review I put Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony on my CD player. This symphon…

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Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan Already!

Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan Already!

According to Statista.com, the total cost of the US war on Afghanistan is around $765 billion. The number of …

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Who Did in the Counterculture? An Interview With Ron Jacobs

Who Did in the Counterculture? An Interview With Ron Jacobs

Aaron Leonard is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to HNN. The writer and journalist Ron Jacobs has…

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Daydream Sunset:'60s Counterculture in the '70s

Daydream Sunset:'60s Counterculture in the '70s

Please consider buying a copy of Daydream Sunset. It is available from the publisher by clicking on the pictu…

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The Grateful Dead: The Ship of the Sun Bids Farewell

The Grateful Dead: The Ship of the Sun Bids Farewell

Check out Ron Jacobs on this week's CounterPunch Radio with Eric Draitser where they discuss many of the impo…

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Articles

Charles Manson: All-American

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By Ron Jacobs
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Boyd Rice (right) and a man who only identified himself as “White” protesting for Charles Manson after he was denied parole – Public Domain Charles Manson was an archetypal American in a manner similar to Donald Trump. Both men convince(d) others to do things against their better sense, moral training and counter to their own interests. The particular charisma Manson and Trump project is one that is based in the amplification of people’s fears while creating an illusion of their difference.
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Jumping the Turnstiles

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By Ron Jacobs
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Photograph Source: Enrique Vázquez – CC BY 2.0 Bob Dylan’s “all night girls whispered escapades out on the D Train.” Billy Strayhorn told us to take the A Train and “Listen to those rails a-thrummin.’” The Last Poets felt the white supremacy in the air as the wheels clicked in the Black rider’s brain: “Eighth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, Sixth Avenue/ I-N-D, B-M-T, I-R-T.” Me, I rode the D Train between Fordham Road and Columbus Circle four evenings a week in the Fall of 1973 to get to my job...
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FIFA Should Be Banned From the Game

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By Ron Jacobs
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Photograph Source: Quintin Soloviev – CC BY 4.0 The international football association FIFA is more corrupt than Donald Trump and his loathsome family. The fact that FIFA’s current president Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump are playing out some kind of bromance on the stage of the upcoming World Cup is neither surprising or fit for family viewing.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Working on a high school underground newspaper in 1970.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Making it more immediate and less in-depth.

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