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Bipartisan wars
(There’s no there there.) By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | January 10, 2019 “Try to calm down, America. Whatever RussiaGate (and the Greater Middle East] ultimately turns out to be, it won’t be anything worth a single drop … Continue reading
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Tagged Bipartisanship, Murray Polner, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Imperialism
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Making peace between Rocket Man
and the Dotard
Solving the North Korea problem requires our best understanding of everybody’s needs. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | September 27, 2017 Two grown men are publicly calling each other names, a childish spat that rises from annoying to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dotard, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Nuclear War, Rag Bloggers, Rocket Man, Steve Russell, Trump Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy
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To Russia with love
Russia consistently reaches out to the U.S. for improved relations, and the U.S. consistently rejects those gestures. By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | August 21, 2017 In his recent opinion piece in Bloomberg, a publication dedicated to … Continue reading
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Tagged David P. Hamilton, Rag Bloggers, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin
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Foreign policy: The elephant in the room
An undercurrent in the 2016 election was growing opposition to an activist United States economic/political/military role in the world. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | January 11, 2017 An empire in decline United States global hegemony is coming … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Elections, Election Hacking, Harry Targ, Rag Bloggers, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Hegemony, U.S. Imperialism, WikiLeaks
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Vultures over Havana
Fidel Castro and the Castration of U.S. Latin American policy. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | November 28, 2016 When Fidel Castro died in his sleep at 90 on November 25 in Havana, American news consumers might have … Continue reading
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Break up the banks and the military/industrial complex!
What Hillary Clinton calls ‘American leadership’ is more about militarism than statesmanship. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2016 Hillary Clinton recently declared that she was the only candidate who had the knowledge and experience to … Continue reading
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What is to be done in the Middle East (as soon
as pigs fly)
Creating an actual anti-Islamic State alliance would require thinking entirely outside the currently existing conceptual boxes. By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | November 25, 2015 “In the name of realism, men are quite mad, and precisely what … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashar al-Assad, David P. Hamilton, Islamic State, Middle East, Rag Bloggers, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Should we make more war? Where? How?
Obama’s foreign policy reflects the contradictory approaches of U.S. leadership since the country’s emergence as a superpower. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | February 17, 2015 Both unity and contradiction are reflected in the history of United States … Continue reading
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The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete
Our electoral apparatus is thoroughly compromised by oceans of dirty money, Jim Crow registration traps, rigged electronic voting, gerrymandering… By Harvey Wasserman | The Rag Blog | November 5, 2014 The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete. The Republicans now … Continue reading
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Battling Ebola: Cuba leads while U.S. lags
The U.S. has 550 military personnel in Africa on counterterrorism missions while over 5,000 Africans have succumbed to the non-military threat of Ebola. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | October 26, 2014 In what a New York Times … Continue reading
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From Vietnam to Iraq, lessons never learned
We cannot trust the ‘best and brightest’ to have the answers any more than students trusted their pedigreed elders 50 years ago. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | September 17, 2014 [The following remarks, provided to The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Ann Arbor, Iraq War, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military, Vietnam War
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