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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
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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Tagged France, Libyan Intervention, Muammar Gaddafi, Sarkozy, Steve Weissman
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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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Tagged Foreign Policy, Green Revolution, Imperialism, Iran, Nonviolence
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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
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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Tagged CIA, Green Revolution, Imperialism, Iran, Iranian Elections, New Media, U.S. Foreign Policy
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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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Tagged CIA, Civil Disobedience, Imperialism, Iran, Iranian Elections, Nonviolence, U.S. Foreign Policy
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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
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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Tagged Middle East, Muslim World, Obama Foreign Policy, Pakistan, Palestine
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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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Tagged Ahmadinejad, Denial, Holocaust, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
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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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Tagged Imperialism, Obama Administration, Obama Foreign Policy, Pentagon, Theodore Roosevelt
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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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Tagged Carl Davidson, Dale Watson, David P. Hamilton, Ed Ward, Erika Wurth, Gus Speth, Interviews, Jesse Dayton, Johnny Hazard, Jonah Raskin, KOOP Radio, Mike Davis, Paul Krassner, Philip L. Russell, Podcasts, Powell St. John, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, Raj Patel, Rosie Flores, Spencer Perskin, Steve Weissman, Thorne Dreyer, Timothy Kuhner, Tom Hayden, Tom Philpott, Tracey Schulz, Victor Pickard
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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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Tagged Charlie Hebdo Massacre, David P. Hamilton, France, French Culture, French Muslims, French Society, Rag Bloggers
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