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Steve Weissman :
We are all Charlie, even as political hacks steal Charlie’s soul

Within days, the French political elite and their international allies were using the tragedy to sell new policing measures. By Steve Weissman | Reader Supported News | January 19, 2015 ∗ French-based journalist Steve Weissman joined legendary satirist Paul Krassner and … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : Sarkozy’s Role in the Libyan Rebellion

President Nicholas Sarkozy shown with embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.Did French President Sarkozy set up Obama’s Benghazi nightmare? By Steve Weissman / The Rag Blog / March 19, 2011 PARIS — Even as Barack Obama struggles to reduce America’s public … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : How Washington Learned to Love Nonviolence

The use of nonviolence for covert intervention Sharp was talking ‘about seizing political power or denying it to others,’ and doing it without having to break things or kill people. By Steve Weissman / The Rag Blog / September 29, … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly

Rebiya Kadeer” : Her skirts are hardly snow white. Photo from the Sunday Morning Herald.Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly Rebiya Kadeer, the fascinating woman at the center of the cock-up, would never be taken for a modern-day Mata Hari. By … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : The U.S. Role in Iran’s ‘Green Revolution’

Photo from BrooWaha.com.Iran: Seen to Be Meddling Our multimedia meddlers sought… to help mobilize the millions of Iranians who had already turned against the regime of Ahmadinejad and were questioning the theocratic rule of the ayatollahs. By Steve Weissman / … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : U.S. and Iran: Nonviolence 101

Was there meddling in the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine in 2004-2005?Iran: Nonviolence 101 Washington’s promotion of nonviolent resistance in other countries is already casting suspicion on a number of activists and thinkers who, wittingly or not, have allowed themselves … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : Netanyahu Offers a State and a Half

Binyamin Netanyahu speaks on Palestine. Could he become the Nixon of the Middle East? Photo by AP.Israel Offers a State and a Half To bring the Palestinians and their Arab supporters back to the table, [Obama] will have to find … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : Obama Speaks. Will Palestine or Pakistan Decide?

Barack Obama’s speech drew huge audiences in the Muslim world. Photo by EPA / Telegraph, U.K. A bigger problem for Obama’s relations with the world’s Muslims will be his military escalation in Afghanistan and his ever-deepening involvement in Pakistan. By … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : How Should We Respond to Ahmadinejad

Ultra-conservative Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, shakes hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during international conference questioning the existence of the holocaust in Tehran, Dec. 12, 2006. Photo by AP. Using the word ‘pretext’ to describe Jewish suffering during World … Continue reading

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Steve Weissman : Obama’s Big Stick

Barack Obama: Taking up where Teddy Roosevelt left off? Political cartoon from Dakin Archives. In less than hundred days in office, President Barack Obama has already demonstrated his desire to speak softly to all comers, friend or foe, while his … Continue reading

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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Recent shows include lively, timely interviews and musical performance

Listen to podcasts of shows with Dale Watson & Rosie Flores; Jonah Raskin; Victor Pickard; Paul Krassner, David Hamilton & Steve Weissman; Gus Speth; Powell St. John & Spencer Perskin; Jesse Dayton; Philip Russell & Johnny Hazard; Erika Wurth & … Continue reading

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David P. Hamilton :
Muslims in France: A little context

You can’t generalize with much accuracy about Muslims in France, no more so than about Christians or secularists. By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | January 12, 2015 It is impossible to generalize about Muslims in France. Anyone … Continue reading

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