My heroes have always been not cowboys but journalists. 

I admire war correspondents. For anyone in battle. At the moment, this includes our soldiers, hence my Guardian article about the killing efficiency of roadside bombs which we've spent billions to neutralize but which keep on shredding men and women in combat. Put yourself in the boots of a young man or woman on patrol never knowing when or if your next step will blow your balls or head off. Bring the war home.

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When It All Seems So Useless One Damn War After Another, Try Ancestor Worship

A friend wrote in frustration that “…calling, signing, marching, posting, talking, listening all seem to be useless. Suggestions?”  Such liberal depression is like the flu, contagious.  I've got it too.  Each of us
has his or her own therapy or way of staying sane.  Here's one of mine may not work for anyone else:

- Among my living and dead "ancestors" are the Russian-American reporter Masha Gessen, who has been there before us having lived under, and been personally threatened by, Russia's Trump, Putin. You can read her article "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" which was published in the New York Review of Books on November 10th, in the immediate wake of Trump's election.

- And the wild kickass all-female Pussy Riot who get sent to prison for their satiric, feminist rock n roll.  

Selected Past Articles:
Hello Baseball, Goodbye Brain
Counterpunch April 08, 2013

​Pardon Me, President Obama
The Guardian (UK) December 10, 2013

The following articles appeared in The Guardian (UK):

Obamacare Gets My Vote: Romney and Ryan's Alternative Nearly Killed Me
J Edgar Hoover and Me: How I Was Spied On By the FBI
The US Isn't Facing Up To the Literal Emasculation of Its Soldiers
D-Day: Remembering the Backstory
Labor Day and the Spirit of Joe Hill
Hem and Us
Power Yields Nothing Without a Demand: A Salute to the Bravest Young People in Recent US History
A Trip to the Far Side of Madness
My Hand on Princess Margaret's Knee

The following articles appeared in CounterPunch:

The Rebel Jew Jesus: With Apologies to My Atheist and Devout Friends
Why is LA So Boring?
Trump's Rasputin: What "The Donald" Learned from Ray Cohn
The Fine Art of Political Backstabbing
The Maverick: In Praise of Ron Paul
Hugh Thompson and My Lai
Crazies on the Run

The following article appeared in the LA Times Magazine:

Founded a Generation Ago by Buckley, the Young Americans for Freedom Are the Shock Troops of U.S. Conservatism