Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
Author Archives: Thorne Dreyer
International Women’s Day By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 5, 2012 SAN ANTONIO — For the third year I traveled south from Austin to San Antonio to take part in their International Women’s Day march with others … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Olympia Snow and Andrew Breibart:Is it the end of an era? By Danny Schechter | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2012 There was an eerie synchronicity in the pending resignation of veteran Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican who … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
Jim Hightower : The Keystone XL Flim-Flam
Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Image from Nation of Change.The Keystone XL flim-flam The dirty little secret that those pushing so urgently for building Keystone XL don’t want you to know is that the tar sands oil producers are … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Environment, Fossil Fuels, Jim Hightower, Keystone XL Pipeline, Oil Companies, Tar Sands Pipeline
Leave a comment
Richard Raznikov tells us that “all across the western world, there is enormous pressure… to ‘privatize’ everything.” Severing the connection between the public and the “management of and control over public resources and operations” is dangerous, he says. For instance, … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Leave a comment
David P. Hamilton : Guatemala’s Perez Molina Wants to Legalize all Drugs
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, left, with his Defense Minister Ulises Ansueto Giron, during a ceremony in Guatemala City in January. Photo from AFP / Tico Times.Otto Perez Molina and the Drug War Perez Molina surprised everyone by announcing that … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Central America, David P. Hamilton, Drug Legalization, Drug Violence, Drug War, Guatemala, Latin America, Perez Molina
3 Comments
Richard Raznikov : The Privatization of Everything
Gobbling up the Commons. Cartoon by Ahmed Abdallah / 3arabawy.On the verge:The privatization of everything Does anyone have to ask what happens to law enforcement and the judicial system once the state agrees to keep private prisons at 90% of … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged American Society, Commons, Democracy, Political Philosophy, Privatization, Richard Raznikov
4 Comments
Jack A. Smith : Will Israel Bomb Iran?
Will Israel strike? Image from Gestetner Updates.Bombing Iran:Will they or won’t they? Iran insists it is not producing or about to produce nuclear weapons… Israel is known to possess at least 200 nuclear weapons and delivery systems. By Jack A. … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Iran Attack, Israel, Jack A. Smith, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Foreign Policy
3 Comments
Rag Radio : The Occupy Movement and Activism in Austin
Occupy activists in the studios of KOOP-FM, Austin, February 24, 2012. From left, Richard Bowden, Joe Cooper, Mo McMorrow, Nate Cowan, Brian J. Overman, Lucian Villaseñor, and Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio.Rag Radio:Representatives … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Million Musicians March, Occupy Austin, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Rag Radio, SXSW, Thorne Dreyer
Leave a comment
Harry Targ : Social Movements and the Forces of Reaction
Image from KXL.com.Progressive social movements andthe reactionary forces that oppose them By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | February 29, 2012 “Of course, Big Labor’s coercion of employees into paying union dues to subsidize its political agenda isn’t new, … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged ACORN, Harry Targ, Labor Movement, Planned Parenthood, Reactionary Politcs, Right to Work, Social Movements
1 Comment
BOOKS / Robert Jensen : Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
The emperor’s messenger has no clothes:Belén Fernández dresses down Thomas Friedman By Robert Jensen / Truthout / January 28, 2012 [The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, by Belén Fernández (Verso, 2011); 240 pp., $16.95. Published by Verso in its … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Belén Fernández, Books, Imperialism, Journalists, Robert Jensen, Thomas Friedman
1 Comment
Bob Feldman : Disenfranchising Black Voters in Texas, 1890-1920
Poll Tax Receipt, January 30, 1908; digital image from the University of North Texas Libraries.The hidden history of Texas Part IX: 1890-1920/3 — Disenfranchising black voters in Texas By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / February 28, 2012 [This … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged African-American History, Bob Feldman, Poll Tax, Racism, Texas History, White Supremacy
Leave a comment
Lamar W. Hankins : ALEC and the Right Wing Agenda
Graphic from alecwatch.org.The ALEC agenda:How the right-wing moldslegislators to shill for corporations By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | February 28, 2012 “[Any law proposed by businessmen] ought always to be listened to with great precaution… It comes … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged ALEC, Conservative Politics, Corporate Power, Lamar W. Hankins, Right Wing
Leave a comment
