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Monthly Archives: October 2009
HEALTH / Know Thyself (And Watch Thy Back)
Nancy Kennedy, 20, downs soda and fries. Photo from LA Times, 1965.A good dose of Healthy Skepticism:Learn what works for you Each of us is inside our body and we know what it feels like better than the M.D. ever … Continue reading
Photographer Roy DeCarava : ‘The Sound I Saw’
Photographer Roy DeCarava. Photo by triggahappy76 / Flickr.Roy DeCarava : 1919-2009 Photographer Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his 60-year career to capturing images of African Americans. His subjects ranged from daily life in his hometown … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American Society, Arts, Deaths, Jazz, People, Photographers, Photography, Urban Culture
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Divine Comedy : Joe Lieberman and the Hypocrites
The Hypocrites address Dante, from Canto XXIII of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. Engraving by Gustave Doré from Pantheon Books edition / Wikimedia Commons.The Eighth Circle of Hell:Lieberman, Congress and health care reform Of course, Sen. Lieberman does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Joe Lieberman, Literature, Public Option, Universal Health Care
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Honduras : A Deal is Cut to Reinstate Zelaya
Zelaya supporter shouts slogans outside the National Congress. Photo from AFP.Compromise deal restores ZelayaRiot police meet demonstrators with tear gasBy David Holmes Morris / The Rag Blog / October 30, 2009 See Val Liveoak’s analysis of the latest developments — … Continue reading
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Tagged Central America, Coups d'etat, Honduras, Latin America, Manuel Zelaya, Resistance Movements
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Paul Baker : Giant of Texas Theater Dies at 98
Paul Baker in front of Dallas Theater Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1960. Photo by Eliot Elisofon / Life Images.Giant of Texas theater Paul Baker:Director, educator, firebrand dies at 98 See ‘Paul Baker at Baylor: A student remembers,’ by … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Arts, Baylor, Censorship, Dallas, Educators, Guerrilla Theater, Jim Simons, Texas
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Afghan Hawks : Make Your Case (And Chill with the Hot Air)
Photo by Michael Yon / Big Hollywood.A suggestion to the Afghan hawks:Give us facts, not just hot air By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / October 30, 2009 The supporters of Joe Biden seem to be on the defensive … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, Pakistan, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Sudanese Journalist : Seven Years at Guantanamo was ‘Living Hell’
Above, supporters of Sami Al’Hajj unfurl banner during Al’Hajj’s 2008 hunger strike. Below, Al Jazeera interviews Sami Al’Hajj at the Doha International Airport in Quatar, May 30, 2008. Photo by omar_chatriwala / Flickr.Journalist Al’Hajj describes Guantanamo detentionBefore international war crimes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Guantanamo, Journalists, Torture, War Crimes
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Some Cockamamie Ideas about Afghanistan
Afghani women: Offer micro-loans for economic development. Photo from UNHCR.Remembering Pharaoh, Plagues and Exodus…Afghanistan: There has to be a better way By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / October 29, 2009 When some of us outside Washington (and … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Peace, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Afghanistan : Tom Friedman’s ‘Cronkite Moment’?
Tom Friedman’s “Walter Cronkite Moment”?Times columnist reverses field on Afghanistan.By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 29, 2009 The Iraq war’s chief New York Times cheerleader has reversed field on Afghanistan. Does it mean there will be no … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alternative Media, New York Times, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam, Walter Cronkrite
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Dick J. Reavis : SDS and the Great Divide
Image from Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History.Today’s Red Book and the demise of SDS Nobody present had repudiated Leftism, but everyone seemed to have reached a consensus that the heedlessness of youth had been our common flaw. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Military Draft, Peace Movement, Progressive Labor Party, SDS, Sixties, SNCC, SSOC, The Left, The Rag Blog, Vietnam
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FILM / William Kunstler : Disturbing the Universe
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe… Remarkable film tells story ofFamed civil rights attorney By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2009 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, a film by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, premiered as part … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Panthers, Chicago 8, Civil Rights, Documentary, Film, Movement Lawyers, New Left, Political Activists, Sixties, The Movement
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VERSE / Larry Piltz : In the Opt-Out States of America
Big digeridoo. Photo from Pihkva.com. I pledge new legions to The Hagueand fresh new lesions to The Plaguefor medicines to moan and begas Corporatocracy humps my legin the Opt-Out States of AmericaRe the Public Option’s widget plansfor bleeding gums and … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Militarism, Poetry, Political Satire, Public Option
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