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Monthly Archives: February 2016
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Hillary Clinton and the declining
American empire
The war against the Qaddafi regime that destroyed Libya’s social fabric was enthusiastically endorsed by Secretary of State Clinton. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | March 1, 2016 “I think President Obama made the right decision at the … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers, RagBlog
Tagged 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, FDR, Harry Targ, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Qaddafi, Rag Bloggers, Regime Change, U.S. Imperialism
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METRO | Operation Texas: LBJ’s secret rescue mission on the eve of the Holocaust
One Texas scholar insisted that Johnson’s strong spiritual conviction and moral obligation fueled this alleged clandestine undertaking. By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog | February 24, 2016 HOUSTON — On the evening of December 30, 1963, a little … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, RagBlog
Tagged Agudas Achim, Anti-Semitism, Erich Leinsdorf, Holocaust, Ivan Koop Kuper, Jim Novy, LBJ, LBJ Library, Louis Gomolak, Metro, Murray Diskin, Operation Texas, Rag Bloggers, Texas History
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Welcome to the century of gravitational
wave astronomy!
LIGOS’ detection is the most precise measurement ever made in human history and marks five milestones for physics. The sound of two black holes colliding. Image from ligo.caltech.edu. By Cecilia Colomé | The Rag Blog | February 24, 2016 Leer … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cecilia Colome, General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, LIGO, Rag Bloggers, Roy Kerr
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 60’s underground press, Part III: The ‘countercultural’ underground papers
The underground press was everywhere you looked: on campus and off, in urban, suburban, rural, ghetto, barrio, in every state of the Union. By Ken Wachsberger | The Rag Blog | February 23, 2016 [This is the third of a … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Alternative Media, Joint Issue, Ken Wachsberger, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, The Rag, Thorne Dreyer, Underground Press, Underground Press Series
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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Political Guru Glenn W. Smith, Environmentalist & Poet Taylor Brorby, Texas State Rep. Elliott Naishtat
Smith tries to decipher the weird world of presidential politics; Brorby discusses his book on the literature of fracking; Naishtat, a Texas progressive icon, talks about his exit from politics. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February … Continue reading
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Tagged Elliott Naishtat, Glenn W. Smith, Interviews, Podcasts, Rag Radio, Taylor Brorby, Thorne Dreyer, Tracey Schulz
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METRO | Scalia Files: The truth is out there
Too bad Agatha Christie was not a fellow guest, because there has to be foul play. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | February 21, 2016 AUSTIN — An obese 79-year-old man in a sedentary occupation goes to bed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Jones, Alpine Texas, Antonin Scalia, Brewster County, Conspiracy Theories, Glenn Beck, Jade Helm 15, Metro, Michael Savage, Rag Bloggers, Steve Russell
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TELEVISION | ‘Peaky Blinders’ is excellent English historical series
Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangster armies contend in Birmingham and London in the 1920s. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | February 17, 2016 [In his Rag Blog column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films and TV … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Peaky Blinders, Rag Bloggers
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Superdelegates and the undemocratic
Democratic Party
It is as though the Democratic Party has declared that the rabble who vote are not to be trusted with the fate of the party. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | Feb. 17, 2016 SAN MARCOS, Texas … Continue reading
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LIBROS | ‘Haydée Santamaría,
Revolucionaria cubana’
Margaret Randall, integrando la voz de una poetiza en su obra, le da dimensiones humanas a los héroes de la revolución cubana. Por Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | 1 de septiembre, 2015 Traducido del inglés por Cecilia Colomé … Continue reading
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The passing of Scalia: A requiem for Caesar
There is no escaping the fact that Justice Scalia did more to harm this country than any other Supreme Court judge in history. By Jim Simons | The Rag Blog | February 16, 2016 “The evil that men do lives … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Scalia, Bush V. Gore, Citizens United, Deaths, Jim Simons, Rag Bloggers, Supreme Court
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New Hampshire Berning: The Nationalist
and the Socialist
To win the general election against The Donald, Bernie would run a positive hope campaign against a negative fear campaign. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | February 14, 2016 If Vine Deloria, Jr. was correct when he claimed … Continue reading
