Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor

SEARCH
RECENT POSTS
DAVE ZIRIN / CULTURE / Bad Bunny Steals the Show
February 10, 2026
CARL DAVIDSON / POLITICS / SUMMING UP THE YEAR 2025
January 16, 2026
BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE CHANGE / Climate Change Review 2025
December 31, 2025
JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Levitating the Pentagon
December 29, 2025
ARCHIVES
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005
Yearly Archives: 2007
Turning Tables
Iran arrests bomb suspects, police say U.S. linkFri Feb 16, 2007 3:28PM EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has arrested some 65 men suspected of being behind a deadly bombing that killed members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in a southeastern … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Anti-War Activism In California
Students have brought activism back to UCSB, organizing the largest antiwar protest since the 70’s. Over a thousand people went to the rally, marched through campus, and then held a speak-out in the middle of the 217 freeway, before delivering … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Farah Nosh
Powerful images from an intense, dramatic photographer. Visit this Web site to see more. A preview: What’s absent from Farah Nosh’s series of images taken in Iraq in early 2006 is just as important as what she shows us. Included … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Kucinich Actually Makes Sense
Surge toward the truth.By Dennis Kucinich 02/14/07 “ICH” — — “As we debate this nonbinding resolution on Iraq, the Administration is preparing for the next war, in Iran. We are losing our democracy to war, massive debt, fear and fraud. … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Saving the Supporters, But Not the "Enemy"
We have to wonder what might happen if instead of letting him bleed to death, the fighters had helped the wounded fellow in the last paragraph below. What if they all started doing that, helping their “enemies”? Just a thought … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
The Reality of Life in Iraq
At the morgue At the Morgue. We were asked to send the next of kin to whom the remains of my nephew, killed on Monday in a horrific explosion downtown, can be handed over. The young men of the family, … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
So What Was It For?
Ex-oil minister dis on Iraq oilBy Ben Lando Feb 15, 2007, 23:39 GMT HOUSTON, TX, United States (UPI) — Former Iraq Oil Minister Issam Al-Chalabi paints a bleak picture for the future of Iraq`s oil industry, panning the result of … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
A Lying Pack of Thieves
Ex-aide says Rice misled U.S. Congress on IranWed Feb 14, 6:32 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled the U.S. Congress when she said last week that she had not seen a 2003 Iranian proposal for … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Neocons, Part Five
5. The Neocons – CIA’s $1 Billion Backs Future Terrorists
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Foodie Friday – New Orleans
A New Orleans Boiled Dinner (2 March 2000) A good New Orleans seafood boil is a work of art, so I had to do this a few times to get it right. I hope you enjoy it as much as … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
We Reject the MCA
Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most American Human RightThom Hartmann “The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
The Road to Middle East Peace Goes Through Palestine
Support Peace Envoy Resolution in the House The road to Peace in the Middle East goes through Israel and Palestine Rep. Susan Davis (D_CA) and ten others introduced H. Res. 143 ‘Urging the President to appoint a Special Envoy for … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
















