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When words are weapons: Aura Bogado interviews Sherman Austinby Sherman Austin and Aura BogadoOctober 21, 2007 Transcribed by Matt Espinoza Watson Sherman Austin first gained national attention in 2002 when the FBI ransacked his home and eventually held him in … Continue reading →

The following was written by David Bradley of UT SDS for the Humanity in Action Senior Fellow blog. Many thanks to David Hamilton for providing us this copy. Israel and Palestine Yesterday, Today, and TomorrowBy David Bradley A new Israel/Palestine … Continue reading →

Israel shaken by troops’ tales of brutality against PalestiniansConal Urquhart in JerusalemSunday October 21, 2007, Observer A psychologist blames assaults on civilians in the 1990s on soldiers’ bad training, boredom and poor supervision A study by an Israeli psychologist into … Continue reading →

Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom, Even If You Have Nothing To HideBy John Dean, FindLaw.com. Posted October 20, 2007. The case against expanding surveillance powers for a White House that’s already out of control. “I’ve got nothing to hide, so … Continue reading →

Suicide and Spin DoctorsBy H. Candace Gorman Never knowing when–or if–you will be released is a cruel form of torture. It allows you to keep hope while filling you with fear. Now that the U.S. military has “cleared” my notes, … Continue reading →

City of Terror: Painting Paraguay’s ‘casbah’ as terror centralWritten by April Howard and Benjamin Dangl Wednesday, 17 October 2007, Source: EXTRA! When we arrived in Ciudad del Este, we were petrified. After all, we were in the Paraguayan city known … Continue reading →

The Rag Blog is published by the New Journalism Project, a Texas non-profit corporation with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status effective March 26, 2009. Donations will be treated as tax-deductible retroactively to the October 9, 2008 date of incorporation. We are now … Continue reading →

Campuses Have Become Poisoned by an Atmosphere of Surveillance and HarassmentBy Saree MakdisiOct 20, 2007, 22:32 Academic Freedom is at Risk in America “Academic colleagues, get used to it,” warned the pro-Israel activist Martin Kramer in March 2004. “Yes, you … Continue reading →

Our 21st century ZimmerwaldBy Phil Cournoyer, Oct 21, 2007, 04:08 Hugo Chávez’s Alo Presidente TV program, telecast live from Santa Clara (Cuba), October 14, is an historic turning point in the gathering showdown between the imperialist North and the popular … Continue reading →

It’s the OilBy Jim Holt 10/20/07 “London Review Of Books” — — Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of … Continue reading →

Turks and Kurds Protest Invasion Policyby Joel Wendland, October 21, 2007 Protests erupted this past week in Turkey and Iraq over Turkey’s decision to authorize an invasion of Iraq in order to fight Kurdish separatists. In addition to the Kurdish … Continue reading →