Pete Karman - In These Times

Pete Karman began working in journalism in 1957 at the awful New York Daily Mirror, where he wrote the first review of Bob Dylan for a New York paper. He lost that job after illegally traveling to Cuba (the rag failed shortly after he got the boot). Karman has reported and edited for various trade and trade union blats and worked as a copywriter. He was happy being a flack for Air France, but not as happy as being an on-and-off In These Times editor and contributor since 1977.

Dear ITT Ideologist: Whitey Bulger & Rebekah Brooks Fear the Slammer

Dear ITT Ideologist: NATO’s Nadir, and the FBI’s Rubbish

Dear ITT Ideologist: Bin Laden’s Neighbor Wants Some Answers

Dear Ideologist: America’s New War and Americans’ Selective Outrage

Slavery and Treason, Really? (Happy Anniversary, Civil War)

Dear ITT Ideologist: Cliff Notes on American Democracy

Dear ITT Ideologist: Executive Functions and the Search for 2008

Dear ITT Ideologist: Good vs. Bad Money

ITT Ideologist: WikiLeaks and Diplomatic Damage Control

Dear ITT Ideologist: Karzai’s Currency War, and Fearsome Flying Bankers

The Mendacious Mavens of the Middle

Dear ITT Ideologist: Iran’s Mercurial Mullahs and the Dismal Science

Dear Ideologist: Abstemious Abnegation and Aging in America

Playing ball with UBS: Obama, Swiss Tax Havens and the IRS

Dear ITT Ideologist: Interstate Warfare and the Teahadists

The Great BS Machine

Dear ITT Ideologist: McChrystal’s Predicament, and an Insecure Israeli

Two Years After Two Predictions, One Unfortunate Result

Dear ITT Ideologist: Libertarian Clubbers and Privacy Violators

Dear ITT Ideologist: American Exceptionalism and GOP Bondage

Killing Through the Centuries: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Drones of Obama

Nothing Sells Like Nothing

Dear ITT Ideologist: Plutocrats and Endangered Leftists

The Real Death Panels

Dear ITT Ideologist: Tea-Timers and Conservocrats in Debit City

Socialism: Oui ou Non?

Dear ITT Ideologist: Fundamentalist Real Estate and Corporate Sex

Conflict As Commodity

Dear ITT Ideologist: Hot Products and ATM Inspiration

The Poverty of Punditry: Sarah and Osama

Dear ITT Ideologist: Law, Order and Angry Atheists

The Decade in Review: Checking Out Our Big Ideas

Dear ITT Ideologist: Vexatious Nations and Komunists

Crusade of the Crazies (It Worked So Well the Last Time)

Why Republicans Have More Fun

From Scandal-navia, a Not-So-Noble Nobel

Mullahs and Morons: Even Our Wars Are Dumbed Down

Barack Goes Un-Ballistic

Nothing Personal, Mr. President

Hypocrisy on Honduras