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Monthly Archives: May 2016
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Out There: My first dispatch from Belize
I’m starting to get a glimmer of the ‘colonial fatalism’ that decrees, ‘That’s just how things are.’ By Mariann Wizard Vasquez* | The Rag Blog | May 28, 2016 SAN IGNACIO TOWN, Cayo, Belize, C.A. — It’s the smallest things … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Charles Glass’s ‘Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe’
As civil wars go, this one is especially unforgiving and brutal, made worse by bitter historic ethnic, religious, and tribal rivalries and proxy wars. By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | May 25, 2016 [Syria Burning: A Short History … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Charles Glass, Middle East History, Murray Polner, Rag Bloggers, Syria, Syria Burning, Syrian Civil War
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ESSAY / VIDEO | ‘Mirando el espejo’: A film-poem about roots and memory in Bolivia
Everywhere people are working to keep their cultural identities alive against the brutal but seductive assault of ‘modernismo.’ Mirando el Espejo (english subtitles) Omar Alarcón Poquechoque. Bolivie from Omar Alarcón Poquechoque on Vimeo. By Chellis Glendinning | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolivian Poets, Chellis Glendinning, Omar Alarcón Poquechoque, Rag Bloggers, Video
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METRO | Life in the Soviet Republic of Sun City
A friend had this priceless comment: ‘It’s just like Cuba, only with money.’ By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | May 17, 2016 SUN CITY, Texas — We just had a crime wave here in Sun City, Texas, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Metro, Rag Bloggers, Retirement Communities, Steve Russell, Sun City
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The Return of the Sacred Deer
The Huichol Deer Repopulation Project: I learned that encroachment and poaching had decimated the deer population in Huichol land. By Luis Guerra | The Rag Blog | May 16, 2016 Artist and storyteller Luis Guerra was our guest on Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Huichol Deer Relocation, Huichol Indians, Luis Guerra, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, Sierra Madre
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The geopolitics of generosity
For the USA, offering little help to Ecuador’s earthquake victims, political calculation takes precedence over compassion. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | May 11, 2016 QUITO, Ecuador — On April 16, Ecuador suffered an earthquake registering 7.8 on … Continue reading
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FILM | Michael Moore’s ‘Where to Invade Next’ is the best film of the young 21st century!
It’s funny, brilliant, and bursting with terrific and practical ideas; don’t miss this treasure! By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | May 11, 2016 I loved the Oscar-winning documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, but I consider Michael Moore’s finest … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, Documentary Film, Film, Michael Moore, Rag Bloggers, Satire, Where Invade Next
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Massive Mexico City airport would be a disaster
It would spur privatized highway construction, destroy farming communities, increase flooding and urban sprawl, and line the pockets of contractors. By Johnny Hazard | The Rag Blog | May 10, 2016 Read “Protestas contra el nuevo aeropuerto de la Ciudad … Continue reading
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‘A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel’
Historian Buhle writes about ‘The Irish socialist who organized an uprising’ and joins us on Rag Radio. (Listen to the podcast here!) By Paul Buhle | The Rag Blog | May 9, 2016 Historian Paul Buhle, a leading figure on … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter Rising, Irish History, Irish Republic, James Connolly, Paul Buhle, Radical Comics, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, Socialists
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The Rag: 50 years of cutting-edge journalism
A series of public events, October 13-16, 2016, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Austin’s historic Sixties underground newspaper. By Thorne Dreyer and Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | May 9, 2016 AUSTIN — In a public celebration of … Continue reading
