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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Mariann Wizard reviews Nancy Miller Saunders’ book, “Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers,” about the historically significant anti-war movement that developed among GIs and veterans of the Vietnam War — and the IVAW, the group that … Continue reading
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Jim Turpin : Assassinations, Anyone?
Image from Assassins / IMFDB.Due process and special ops:Assassinations, anyone? By Jim Turpin / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Every American citizen has heard the legal phrase “due process of law,” but do you really know what that … Continue reading
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Tagged Due Process, Jim Turpin, Justice, School of Americas, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military
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BOOKS / Mariann G. Wizard : The Odyssey of Our Winter Soldiers
Nancy Miller Saunders’ Combat by Trial:Documenting 20th century ‘winter soldiers’ By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers by Nancy Miller Saunders. (iUniverse, Inc., 2008.) 591 … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anti-War Vets, Books, Mariann G. Wizard, Nancy Miller Saunders, SDS, Vietnam, VVAW, Watergate
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Tom reports on the dueling demonstrations in New York City near the proposed Ground Zero Muslim community center. He discusses the “objectification of Other as evil incarnate,” and points out how it is easier to hate than to love. He … Continue reading
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A group of protesters — including veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an army wife — protested in Killeen, Texas, against the deployment of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Iraq — and temporarily blocked buses carrying … Continue reading
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RTÉ News : Iceland to Be Free Press Haven?
No more of this? Image from Susan Loone’s Blog.Iceland set to become free havenFor journalists and whistleblowers By RTÉ News / August 24, 2010 After Iceland’s near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven … Continue reading
Thomas Good : Hatred and Healing at Ground Zero
Photo by Bud Korotzer / NLN.The objectification of Other:Hatred and healing at Ground Zero By Thomas Good / The Rag Blog / August 23, 2010 See photo gallery, Below. NEW YORK — Sunday was another rainy day in New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Ground Zero, Islam, Islamophobia, New York City, Religious Tolerance, Social Protest, Thomas Good
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Barbara Hines is a famed immigration attorney and a clinical law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-director of the immigration clinic at the UT School of Law. A two-time Fulbright scholar, Hines has practiced immigration … Continue reading
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Alice Embree : Protesters Block Fort Hood Troop Deployment
Participants in the blockade action at Fort Hood, Texas, on August 23, 2010. Left to right: Iraq Veterans Bobby Whittenberg-James and Crystal Colon, Jeff Grant, Military Spouse Cynthia Thomas and Afghanistan Veteran Matthis Chiroux. Photo from Fort Hood Disobeys. Protesters … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War Vets, Direct Action, Fort Hood, Iraq Occupation, Peace Movement, Political Protest
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Harry Targ : Religion, Politics, and War
Christians fight Muslims in illustration from medieval manuscript. Image from syllabus, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Sanctioned by a wrathful God:Religion, politics, and war By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2010 Childhood remembrances When I was a kid … Continue reading
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Tagged Crusades, Harry Targ, Islam, Religion, Religious Tolerance, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Tom Hayden : Will Iraq ‘Invite’ Us to Stay?
Image from Progressive America Rising.U.S. combat ends in IraqBut will Iraq ‘invite’ us to stay? By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 See ‘The myth that the combat troops are leaving Iraq’ by Col. Andrew Berdy, … Continue reading
MUNICH FOR THE DEMOCRATS By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 In 1938, Hitler and the Nazis were flexing their power in Germany and doing a very good job of scaring the rest of Europe, … Continue reading
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