our business operations are run right here in petrolia by becky grant and david wheeler. incredible efficiency, of course. counterpunch books. we started thinking we were publishing stuff in the news letter and the web that we wanted to keep in more permanent form. our web stuff on the counterpunch side doesn't go away. it's all around the back side of mars, you know, in the vast sort of black hole of old internet communications. probably all ending up in some government archive, and god help the people who have to go through it. but we felt we wanted to put them in hard covers, and we began with a book called the politics of anti-semitism because we'd done a whole bunch of articles about this idea if you're critical of israel, you're an antisemite which is absolute nonsense. we do our books in association with ak press who are a bunch of pretty well-organized anarchists down in oakland, and ak looks after a lot of the book -- looks after the book shop distribution. we also sell the books on our web site or, you know, people write in, and we just send them right from the