Tag Archives: Jonah Raskin

JONAH RASKIN :
OPINION | Top 11 criminals of 2020

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |November 26, 2020 If you don’t like this list, make up one of your own. There are plenty of criminals in high office and at the … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
POLITICS | Eat the 2020 election

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

“Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.” — French writer, Jean Anthelme Brilliant-Savarin, 1825 By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | November 12, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Voters were definitely on edge … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
FILM | See the movie on the 8: Vote and protest

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

I wish the movie had been more historically accurate. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 22, 2020 I would feel a whole lot better about Aaron Sorkin’s movie if he had titled it The Trial of the … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
HISTORY | ‘Up Against the Wall’

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

Peter Laufer has observed and written about borders and walls all around the world. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 1, 2020 [Up Against the Wall: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border by Peter Laufer, PhD; … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
PROTEST | Writers against Trump

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

Texans rally during memorable 90-minute webinar. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 24, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — “Texas can be California,” author Laura Moser said during a 90-minute Zoom Webinar hosted by Writers Against Trump, a … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
ACTIVISM | Thank you, Kenosha: A cry for civil disobedience

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

We weren’t in a revolutionary moment in 1969 and we aren’t in a revolutionary moment now. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 8, 2020 Watching the TV news from Kenosha has given me the opportunity to look … Continue reading →

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C.E. McAULEY :
BOOKS | Jonah Raskin’s ‘Dark Past, Dark Future’ reflects cruel reality

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

This novel demonstrates that readers are in the able hands of a noir master. By C.E. McAuley | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2020 In Jonah Raskin’s new murder mystery Dark Past, Dark Future (2020, McCaa Books) Detective Tioga … Continue reading →

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Robert C. Cottrell :
BOOKS | In response to Jonah Raskin

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

The author replies to Raskin’s ‘Rag Blog’ review of ‘All-American Rebels.’ By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | August 26, 2020 [The following is a response to Jonah Raskin’s August 18, 2020 Rag Blog review of Bob Cottrell’s … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
BOOKS | ‘All-American Rebels: The American Left from the Wobblies to Today’

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

There’s hardly an important rebel who isn’t mentioned in the pages of Cottrell’s book. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | August 18, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Robert C. Cottrell’s survey of radicalism in the U.S. in the … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
BOOKS | ‘A Life of Olson’ by Ed Sanders, cultural revolutionary

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

The book is a feast for the eyes, food for the mind, and balm for the soul. [Jonah Raskin will be Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, July 24, 2020, 2-3 p.m. (CT) on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin and … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin :
OPINION | Trump’s Fourth of July ‘remarks’

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

The demagogue sounds off. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 9, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — Donald Trump’s Fourth of July oration has been heralded in some quarters as a genuine expression of the highest ideals of … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin :
FILM | Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: An anti-imperialist perspective

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

Come on, Spike. You can do better than this. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 2, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Spike Lee has made a name for himself over the past 35 years as the preeminent … Continue reading →

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