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Living the American Nightmare
Ron Jacobs
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IF YOU want to understand US imperialism in the here and now, you could do worse than to read the work of Ron Jacobs.
A serial contributor to Counterpunch, essayist and novelist, Jacobs is one of those veteran activist-journalists steeped in the defiant critiques of US counter-culture that equip him with a uniquely incisive take on reality.
The radical pen that he wields as a result, and the consistency of his observations about US foreign policy and its domestic reverberations in a deeply divided society, put him into a category of writers to whom we should all listen.
This collection of essays written from 2018–22, mostly culled from Counterpunch, offers a dyed-in-the-wool critique of Washington’s deadly imperial hypocrisy.
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