Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
Author Archives: RagBlog
International Women’s Day: Not Much to Celebrate in Many Parts of the World
An Indian vendor waits for customers in Mumbai. Conceived in 1910, International Women’s Day serves as a reminder that women are still battling for fundamental rights and remain victims of violence and enduring inequalities. Photo: Sajjad Hussain/AFP.Women’s Day Marks Crisis … Continue reading
Environmental Fears Are Driving Youth Protests
This is not youthful rebellion. We see the catastrophe aheadBy Joss Garman / March 8, 2009 Great Britain: Climate change has provoked a war between the generations. Younger members of the government need to choose their side. Lily Kember is … Continue reading
The Problem Is That the Democrats Will Implicate Themselves If There Are Prosecutions for Torture
“I Was Only Following Orders!” Being serious about torture. Or not.By William Blum / March 5, 2009 In Cambodia they’re once again endeavoring to hold trials to bring some former senior Khmer Rouge officials to justice for their 1975-79 war … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Crimes Against Humanity, Criminal Justice, Torture, War Crimes
Leave a comment
Crowded Classrooms and Crowded Prisons – Why Is It So Hard to See the Connection?
The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated PrisonsBy Jesse Hagopian / March 7, 2009 One in thirty one. As a public school teacher I am quite familiar with this figure — it’s a typical teacher to student ratio in … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged American Society, Education, Educational Reform, Prison Conditions, Prison Overcrowding
1 Comment
House Demolitions in East Jerusalem Could Spark More Mid-East Violence
40-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud al-Abbasi stands amid the rubble of his home after it was demolished by the Jerusalem municipality in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Photograph: Gali Tibbon.East Jerusalem Settlements Ratchet Up TensionsBy Helena Cobban / March 6, 2009 … Continue reading
The Machiavellian Game of Distraction: Will It Continue with Obama?
Bagram Air Force Base, AfghanistanObama’s Guantanamo? Bush’s Living Legacy at Bagram PrisonBy Karen J. Greenberg / March 5, 2009 Just when you think you’ve woken up from a bad dream… When it comes to offshore injustice and secret prisons, especially … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Afghanistan, Criminal Justice, Indefinite Detention, War Crimes, War on Terror
2 Comments
Naomi Wolf’s ‘The End of America’
Naomi Wolf – 2009. Photo by HeyokayMagazine.Naomi Wolf – The End of America Outlines Path From Freedom To Dictatorship – Compares George Bush To Adolf HitlerBy Tom Madison / March 4, 2009 Although many people compared President Bush and his … Continue reading
Baxter Contaminates Flu Vaccine with Live Virus
‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually ImpossibleBy Paul Joseph Watson / March 5, 2009 Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 … Continue reading
Middle East Peace: Probably Not This Year
Hillary Clinton meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his Ramallah headquarters 4 March 2009.Here we go again?By Paul Beckett / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2009 So now it’s Hillary Clinton who begins to shuttle, looking for that … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Clintons, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Paul Beckett, U.S. Government
2 Comments
Foodie Friday: World’s Best Tortilla Soup
Healing BrothsBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2009 My old buddy David Hamilton, knowing of my recent foray into healing broths, gave me a large grocery sack of collard greens from his garden. Why it took … Continue reading
Like Jeffrey Dahmer Selling Body Parts to a Clinic
Jason Mesnick and his Bachelor’s harem. Photo source: Whitney Port.The Rant ListBy Gail Collins / March 4, 2009 I am having a tough time dealing with news that the former president of Countrywide Financial, the mortgage company that did so … Continue reading
Perhaps BushCo Will Yet Meet Justice
Representative John Conyers Jr. has called for an investigation.Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press.Release of Memos Fuels Push for Inquiry Into Bush’s Terror-Fighting PoliciesBy Charlie Savage and Neil A. Lewis / March 3, 2009 WASHINGTON — A day after releasing a set … Continue reading
