Jan 18
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. By Gerald Horne (New York University Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-4798-9340-9 Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow debunked the happy babble about a contemporary post-racial America. Gerald Horne’s The Counter-Revolution of 1776 broadens the focus to look at the historical roots of this …
Nov 24
Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle is built on an ambitious fiction. The Nazis and the Japanese fascists have won World War II and now (1962) divide the territory of the United States, or most of it, between them. There is a resistance based in the so-called Neutral Zone, a strip roughly along the crest of …
Nov 16
In the turmoil of the moment, French President Francois Hollande probably should be forgiven for calling the terrorist attacks of last Friday in Paris “an act of war.” It’s the kind of grandiose nonsense politicians say. Really, calling these massacres “war” is like referring to shooting fish in a barrel as “sport.” Is he a “warrior” …
Nov 10
Major banks are so glutted with cash that some of them are now charging corporate depositors fees to park their money. So says the Wall Street Journal in an article titled “Big Banks to America’s Firms: We Don’t Want Your Cash.” For example, State Street Bank in Boston, which specializes in large institutional investors, has been …
Nov 03
Update: Author Norman La Force Receives Environmental Stewardship Award. They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it took several villages and more to create this park — the Eastshore State Park. Now the park stretches along the east side of San Francisco Bay from Richmond to Emeryville. Thirty years ago it …
Nov 03
Addiction and its consequences have driven up the death rate among middle aged working-class white people to unprecedented levels, a study published yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences reported. While death rates among nonwhites and among all other age brackets have been falling, mortality among whites in the 45 to 54 year age group …
Aug 29
From Trash to Treasure, my photo book celebrating the beauties of Cesar Chavez Park, is now available as an e-book for Kindle. Hats off to amazon.com customer support, who walked me through the process of getting this photo book into the proper format. You can feed Kindle a PDF file for a book that consists …
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