Author Archives: RagBlog

My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables)By JACK HEDIN, Published: March 1, 2008Rushford, Minn. IF you’ve stood in line at a farmers’ market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a … Continue reading →

Why Isn’t Iraq in the 2008 Election?By Noam Chomsky The following speech, transcribed by Democracy Now!, was delivered by Chomsky in Massachusetts at an event sponsored by Bikes Not Bombs. 03/03/08 “Democracy Now!” — – -Not very long ago, as … Continue reading →

Uribe’s Illegal Cross-Border Raid: Colombian Deaths in EcuadorBy Richard Gott 03/03/08 “The Guardian” — — The deaths of Raúl Reyes and Julián Conrado, two senior figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), are clearly a serious blow to … Continue reading →

Bomb Making at Oak Ridge: Inside the Secret CityBy RON JACOBS On February 26, 2008 a public hearing was held at the city that bills itself as “the Secret City”–Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This meeting was but one of eight held … Continue reading →

Apparently, one of the writers for The Onion has read Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse; otherwise, how do we explain that the video gets the result exactly right for a future 9 months from now? Thanks to Janet Gilles for finding … Continue reading →

Great – I just start buying CFBs to increase my energy efficiency and reduce my carbon footprint, and now we discover that CFBs are serious sources of mercury pollution. I recall arguing with a member of the East Lake Washington … Continue reading →

We’ve said before that you could be next. It seems clear based on everything we’ve seen this criminal administration do in the past seven years that they are beyond the law, they will steam-roll anyone in their way, and they … Continue reading →

This article has already been on European Tribune in late December, and there is an update now concerning the fact that I have registered an LLC in Washington for the purposes outlined in this piece. I will send the update … Continue reading →

US: Vets Break Silence on War CrimesBy Aaron Glantz SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) – U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed … Continue reading →

Ben Griffin: Former SAS, Banned Speech to Anti-War Rally Ben Griffin speaks to World Against War rally before being gagged by UK Government “As of 1940 hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly … Continue reading →

Nah … George W. Bush and his gang have been scaring us into believing that the terrorism threat is much greater than it really is, and making it dramatically worse by their actions in Iraq and other parts of the … Continue reading →

Still PretendingBy James Kunstler The maneuvers that the big banks are making nowadays, along with their enablers at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere in Washington, really amount to little more than the old Polish blanket joke — in which (excuse … Continue reading →