Ron Jacobs

Ron Jacobs

  • Supporting genocide

    Smoke rises following explosions during the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip.—ReutersSince at least...

  • Supporting genocide

    Supporting genocide

    Smoke rises following explosions during the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip.—ReutersSince at least...

  • The complicit West

    People in Gaza reported destruction of displacement camps as well as air strikes. — AFP/FileI have rarely felt so helpless. Or hopeless. Every...

  • The complicit West

    The complicit West

    People in Gaza reported destruction of displacement camps as well as air strikes. — AFP/FileI have rarely felt so helpless. Or hopeless. Every...

  • Immediate ceasefire

    Immediate ceasefire

    Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023. — AFPIn late October while his military bombed...

  • Financial empire

    Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about the rise of the United States’ industrial and financial empire. These descriptions include...

  • American exceptionalism

    American exceptionalism

    I suppose I should be surprised by the ease with which the White House, the Pentagon, Nato and the ever more useless US Congress convinced much of...

  • The forever lockup

    There’s a rather descriptive phrase used to describe those who end up in prisons, jails and penitentiaries in the United States. Two words make up...

  • Freedom?

    In the past couple years, some companies and public agencies have begun to address systemic racism in the United States. These efforts came as a...

  • Ban the guns

    I haven’t fired a gun since I was nineteen years old. It was a .22 caliber pistol with a long barrel and a wooden grip. I held it with two hands...

  • Fair game

    The Rittenhouse trial was a political trial. The far-right knew it could manipulate the evidence in its favor, especially given the nature of stand...

  • Feminist city

    The world we live in is a world built primarily through a male lens. This can be seen in film and on television, in politics and academia. The...

  • Harming the family

    The United States is a hard place to raise children these days. Most parents, no matter what social and economic status they hold, discover just how...

  • Hindsight

    The last ten years have not been pretty. The chaotic hopes implicit in the Occupy movement in the US were dashed by the reactionary response...

  • The power of song

    Woody Guthrie wrote the words “This guitar kills fascists” on his guitar. Victor Jara was murdered by the Chilean military authorities during...

  • Battle for existence

    Author Christopher Ketcham opens his book ‘This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West’ with...

  • People’s history

    Many people think they have no use for history. Too often this is because the history people are taught in schools and the media just doesn’t ring...

  • Quest for equality

    Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968. He was in the city to lend support to the city’s sanitation workers, a mostly...

  • Dark days

    The work I do demands interaction with homeless, often desperate people. Like me when I was on the streets, these men and women know the location of...

  • The real story

    For decades, consumers of the US media have been fed a series of repeated lies concerning the status of northern Korea. Tales of mass starvation and...