Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005
Monthly Archives: September 2014
:
BOOKS | Cultural historian McNally takes readers on a long strange trip
For those who lived through the era and still care about issues of class, race, and gender, ‘Highway 61’ is the book to read about American music. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 16, 2014 [On Highway … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Blues, Bob Dylan, Books, Cultural History, Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead, John Lomax, Jonah Raskin, Lead Belly, Music History, On Highway 61, Popular Music, Rag Bloggers, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties, Social Change
3 Comments
:
Obama and the myth that ‘war works’
Twentieth century narratives of international relations are no longer relevant (if they ever were). By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | September 16, 2014 President Barack Obama spoke to the nation Wednesday night, September 10, about the need to … Continue reading
:
Australian true-crime series ‘Underbelly’ not for faint-hearted
This powerful show chronicles actual bloody underworld wars and police malfeasance in Sydney and Melbourne from 1976 to 2004. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | September 15, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Alan Waldman, Australian Television, Criticism, Nonfiction Television, Rag Bloggers, True Crime, Underbelly
Leave a comment
:
Where is Obama’s exit strategy?
The Islamic State wants the Americans to bomb and invade its territory because foreign aggression is the surest way to unite all Sunni factions. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2014 A disturbing omission in President … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged George W. Bush, Iraq War, ISIS, Islamic State, Long War, Obama Foreign Policy, Rag Bloggers, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy
1 Comment
David Meggyesy thinks new UT football coach Charlie Strong “is blowing it” and calls his “Joe Hard-ass” approach “insane” in this Rag Radio interview.
Posted in Metro, RagBlurb
Leave a comment
:
America: You’ve got three more years to
drive normally!
Three more years? That’s pretty scary! Surely there must be a mistake in that headline. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2014 First in a series Is it possible that average Americans could have a hard … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Driving Series, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Oil Production, Peak Driving, Peak Oil, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Transportation
21 Comments
:
The continuing failure of U.S. interventions
At this time of great conflict in the world, U.S. foreign/military policy seems to be intimately connected to virtually everything that’s going wrong. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | September 10, 2014 The United States insists on … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Jack A. Smith, Rag Bloggers, U.S Interventions, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Imperialism, U.S. Military
Leave a comment
David Meggyesy thinks new UT football coach Charlie Strong “is blowing it” and calls his “Joe Hard-ass” approach “insane” in this Rag Radio interview.
Posted in RagBlurb
Leave a comment
:
A moment of restorative justice
While the U.S.criminal justice system offers revenge as its principal method of restitution, families may find better solutions for achieving remorse and true rehabilitation. By Jean Trounstine | The Rag Blog | September 9, 2014 It never happens. That’s what … Continue reading
Friday on Rag Radio: Lamar Hankins discusses the chilling Church of Wells scandal and the Rick Perry indictment.
Posted in RagBlurb
Leave a comment
:
The Ukrainian mess: Where are the skeptics?
is this another replay of the Vietnam and Iraq eras when our mass media merely echoed government spokespeople? By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | September 9, 2014 Poor Katrina van den Heuvel and husband Stephen Cohen, she the … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Crimean Annexation, Mass Media, Murray Polner, NATO, Nazis, New Cold War, Rag Bloggers, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Leave a comment
