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Roaming Charges: Call Him Ishmael

I first encountered Ishmael Reed in the mid-70s in a humid attic in Broad Ripple, the boho enclave of Indianapolis. (Or what passes for the demimonde in the Crossroads of America, any way.) I was carving my way through Thomas Pynchon’s rock opera Gravity’s Rainbow for the first time and stopped...

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"The point of forgetting and denying the crimes of the past, including the very recent past like January 6th Capitol Riot, is to make it easier for current and future transgressors to replicate and expand upon those crimes. Across the country, the violence that the RNC calls “legitimate political discourse” is on regular display with right-wing threats and attacks on election officials, public health officials, school board members, teachers, nurses, school nurses, doctors, prosecutors, and elected officers." ................................
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The “World’s Greatest Country” is Swirling Down the Drain

The United States’ descent into pandemicist and neofascist Hell (something I have documenting for some time here at CounterPunch and recently in a new

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