Author Archives: RagBlog

Junior gets socially promoted despite flunking charm school. Fortunate Son: The Untold History of George W. BushSocial promotion to presidentBy Jerry Mazza If social promotion is a perverse gift to poor and disenfranchised youth, that is, to push them while … Continue reading →

Money Trumps Peace…SometimesBy Cindy Sheehan 02/16/07 “ICH” — — It is always painful to watch George stumble his way through press conferences. He can’t get through a sentence without at least two-three “uhs,” his eye lids flutter up and down … Continue reading →

Judge Restricts New York Police SurveillanceBy JIM DWYER In a rebuke of a surveillance practice greatly expanded by the New York Police Department after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge ruled today that the police must stop the routine … Continue reading →

Is It For Freedom? Sara Thomsen Visit Sara Thomsen’s Web site here.

Iran arrests bomb suspects, police say U.S. linkFri Feb 16, 2007 3:28PM EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has arrested some 65 men suspected of being behind a deadly bombing that killed members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in a southeastern … Continue reading →

Students have brought activism back to UCSB, organizing the largest antiwar protest since the 70’s. Over a thousand people went to the rally, marched through campus, and then held a speak-out in the middle of the 217 freeway, before delivering … Continue reading →

Powerful images from an intense, dramatic photographer. Visit this Web site to see more. A preview: What’s absent from Farah Nosh’s series of images taken in Iraq in early 2006 is just as important as what she shows us. Included … Continue reading →

Surge toward the truth.By Dennis Kucinich 02/14/07 “ICH” — — “As we debate this nonbinding resolution on Iraq, the Administration is preparing for the next war, in Iran. We are losing our democracy to war, massive debt, fear and fraud. … Continue reading →

We have to wonder what might happen if instead of letting him bleed to death, the fighters had helped the wounded fellow in the last paragraph below. What if they all started doing that, helping their “enemies”? Just a thought … Continue reading →

At the morgue At the Morgue. We were asked to send the next of kin to whom the remains of my nephew, killed on Monday in a horrific explosion downtown, can be handed over. The young men of the family, … Continue reading →

Ex-oil minister dis on Iraq oilBy Ben Lando Feb 15, 2007, 23:39 GMT HOUSTON, TX, United States (UPI) — Former Iraq Oil Minister Issam Al-Chalabi paints a bleak picture for the future of Iraq`s oil industry, panning the result of … Continue reading →

Ex-aide says Rice misled U.S. Congress on IranWed Feb 14, 6:32 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled the U.S. Congress when she said last week that she had not seen a 2003 Iranian proposal for … Continue reading →