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Mary Tuma : Family Planning Cuts Force Texas Clinic Closures
Image from Austinist.New England Journal of Medicine: Family planning cuts inTexas force clinic closures Low-income women are being hit hardest by the legislative cutbacks, the study’s authors note. By Mary Tuma / The American Independent / October 2, 2012 Deep … Continue reading
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Tagged Birth Control, Family Planning, Mary Tuma, Planned Parenthood, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics, Women's Health
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Danny Schechter : Is Iran Shifting its Message?
Diplomacy, Murdoch style. Image from Twitchy Media.Is Iran trying to tell ussomething we won’t hear? The rhetoric of the well-orchestrated anti-Iranian crowds outside was even bloodier than the Iranians had ever been… By Danny Schechter | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmadinejad, Danny Schechter, Iran, Middle East, U.S. Foreign Policy, United Nations
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Lamar W. Hankins : Playing Politics with Religion in Hays County, Texas
Photo by Alamy / The Telegraph.Hays County officials play politicswith religious invocation Individual rights of conscience and religious diversity cannot be maintained when the government promotes one religion over others. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | October … Continue reading
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Tagged Hays County, Lamar W. Hankins, Public Prayer, Religious Freedom, Separation of Church and State
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Jonah Raskin : Jack Kerouac’s ‘Mishmash’ Life
Jack Kerouac. Photo by Tom Polumbo, circa 1956. Image from Wikimedia Commons.Jack Kerouac’s ‘mishmash’ lifeand his biographers None of Kerouac’s biographers are as concise as he was, none of them as poetical as he, and none of them as unapologetic … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Beat Generation, Biography, Books, Jack Kerouac, Jonah Raskin, Literature
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Robert Jensen : Why We Won and How We Are Losing
Going, going… Image from Earthweek.From start to finish:Why we won and how we are losing A review essay on human origins and contemporary crises. By Robert Jensen | The Rag Blog | September 27, 2012 James Howard Kunstler, Too Much … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Anthropology, Books, Ecology, Evolution, Global Crisis, Robert Jensen, Western Civilization
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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman : Could Nine GOP Governors Flip the Vote?
Boss Tweed: “As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” Cartoon by Thomas Nast /Harper’s Weekly, October 7, 1871. Image from Scoop Independent News.Will nine GOP governors electronicallyflip Romney into the White House? … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : U.S. Special Forces are Back in Iraq
Special Forces patrol in Iraq, 2005. U.S. Army photo.U.S. Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, again The irony is that the U.S. is protecting a pro-Iran Shiite regime in Baghdad against a Sunni-based insurgency while at the same time supporting a … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, middle, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Singer-Songwriters Bob Cheevers & Noëlle Hampton and André Moran
Above, from left, musicians André Moran, Bob Cheevers, and Noëlle Hampton, with Rag Radio’s Thorne Dreyer and Tracey Schulz. Inset photos below of Bob Cheevers, Noëlle Hampton, and André Moran. All photos were taken in the KOOP studios in Austin, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Moran, Austin Musicians, Bob Cheevers, Interview, Noelle Hampton, Podcast, Rag Radio, Singer-Songwriters, Thorne Dreyer
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BOOKS / Lamar W. Hankins : America’s ‘Gunfight’ over Gun Control
Gunfights:America’s conflicts over gun control Winkler’s research demonstrates clearly that Americans have always had the right to bear arms and the government has always had the right to regulate guns. By Lamar W. Hankins /The Rag Blog / September 25, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Society, Books, Gun Control, Lamar W. Hankins, NRA, U.S. Constitution
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Danny Schechter : When is a Terrorist No Longer a Terrorist?
Mujahedin-e-Khalq. Image from Institute for the Study of Violent Groups.Strange story of the Mujahedine-Khalq:When is a terrorist no longer a terrorist? The ‘bad guys’ became ‘good guys’ with the swipe of a pen. By Danny Schechter | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Schechter, Iran, Middle East, Mujahedeen Khalq, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Daniel Samper Pizano : Here Come the Nuns!
Image from the Brisbane Times.Here come the Nuns! They do not preach it from a pulpit, but live it with their example, in miserable hospitals, in shanty towns, schools, jungle dispensaries, and in places of conflict. By Daniel Samper Pizano … Continue reading
