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GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends a book that analyses current affairs in an accessible way that speaks to readers without fancy abstraction, just blunt common sense
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RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Living the American Nightmare
Ron Jacobs
Hanian Media £8.50
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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