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Interview with Tim DeChristopher, Utah Oil Lease Spoiler
In its final days, the Bush administration tried to sell drilling rights to Utah’s Red Rock Country. Student Tim DeChristopher purchased a chunk of that land in an act of civil disobedience.Modern-Day MonkeywrencherBy Martin Stainthorp / April 10, 2009 During … Continue reading
Medicine and Torture: Bad Bedfellows
Handcuffs sit at the foot of a chair used for interrogation inside a cell in the maximum security Camp 5 at Camp Delta on May 9, 2006 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.U.S. Medical Personnel and Interrogations: What … Continue reading
‘Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.’
Jane Darwell as Ma Joad and Henry Fonda as Tom Joad.Above the din, Ma Joad’s voice still confident, clearBy Pierre Tristam / April 7, 2009 Homeless camps now sprawl instead of developments. Unemployment numbers are spilling off front pages into … Continue reading
Rudd: Put the War Budget Into Peace, Diplomacy, Law, and Sustainable Energy Development
Mark Rudd.Pacifism and The Military-Industrial-University Complex: Interviewing Mark RuddBy Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / April 7, 2009 Mark Rudd was the chairman of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society [SDS] at the time of … Continue reading
The Torture Party
Cartoon by Ralph Solonitz / The Rag Blog
Cuba: Encouraging Artists to Criticize the System
Cuba’s Minister of Culture Abel Prieto in Havana during an interview he granted La Jornada. Photo: Pablo Espinosa.Cuba urges artists to be critical in order to defend the utopia, Abel Prieto saysBy Pablo Espinosa A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter … Continue reading
Washington Retraining Programs Unfunded Until July
And it’s reasonable to speculate that this is happening across the country. It says everything about national priorities that we put billions into bailing out financial institutions, some of which are demonstrably corrupt, but those individuals who need funding for … Continue reading
Author of ‘Writing Down the Bones’ Visits Austin
Natalie Goldberg and Bookwoman’s Susan Post. Photo: Alice Embree.Natalie Goldberg Visits AustinBy Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 5, 2009 Natalie Goldberg was in Austin on April Fools’ Day promoting her book, Old Friend from Far Away, The … Continue reading
Canadian Parliament Defies Prime Minister and Votes to Allow US War Resisters to Stay
War resisters spoke in conversation with Andy Barrie, CBC radio host and Vietnam war resister, at a public forum at the University of Toronto on May 21, 2008. Photo: Source.I’ll have a ‘Draught Dodger!’ Canadian Parliament votes again to let … Continue reading
UofM Students: It’s About the First Amendment
Porn Flick Screening at U-Md. Still On, as Is Funding ThreatBy Maria Glod / April 5, 2009 Neither side is prepared to lay down its sword. University of Maryland students — protesting what they see as an intrusion by Big … Continue reading
We Suffer Under a Mass National Hallucination
Zombie Apocafest 2008. This is “Best Zombified Building” forPaul Hetherington’s “Casa Baron.” Photo: Source.Escape from the Zombie Food CourtBy Joe Bageant / April 3, 2009 [Joe Bageant recently spoke at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University at Lexington, … Continue reading
Ground the Drones … Lest You Reap the Whirlwind
The MQ-9 Reaper taxies into Creech Air Force Base, Nev., home to the newly reactivated 432nd Wing. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.Source: USAF.Down Where the Predators Live: Getting a Closer Look at the Killer DronesBy Kathy … Continue reading
