Author Archives: Thorne Dreyer

Bill Freeland : With ‘Occupy,’ the People are the Point

Image from Addicting Info.‘Occupy America’: The people are the point By Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / November 17, 2011 The “Occupy” movement, which began as a small gathering in a private park near Wall Street in New York … Continue reading

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Eric Newhouse : Half of Returning Warriors are Wounded

Photo by RunItsTheFuz / Flickr / Truthout.Half of vets returning from Iraq andAfghanistan need medical attention By Eric Newhouse / Truthout / November 16, 2011 More than half of America’s former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with … Continue reading

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Thomas McKelvey Cleaver : It’s ‘How You Play the Game’

Vince Lombardi was famous for saying, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Image from Great American Things.Did winning become everythingfor Penn State’s Joe Paterno? By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2011 Forty-eight years ago, … Continue reading

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Burn Their Books, Mayor Bloomberg

People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by David Shankbone / Flickr. NYPD apparently destroys ‘American cultural history’ More than 5,000 books in the Occupy Wall Street library were reportedly thrown away when police moved in to remove protesters from … Continue reading

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Kate Braun : Tie Up Loose Ends During Waning Crescent Moon

Waning crescent moon. Photo by Ed Euthman / Flickr.Moon Musings:Waning Crescent Moon(November 19 – 22, 2011) By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2011 The waning crescent moon is a good moon phase to use to tie … Continue reading

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Moon Musings: Waning Crescent Moon(November 19 – 22, 2011) By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / November 15, 2011 The waning crescent moon is a good moon phase to use to tie up loose ends and to consolidate experiences … Continue reading

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Susan Van Haitsma : Anti-War GI’s March in Killeen Vets Day Parade

Representatives of IVAW and Under the Hood Cafe marched in the Killeen Veterans Day Parade. Photo by Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog.The burdens of war:Anti-war GI’s on Veterans Day By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading

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Thorne Dreyer’s guests on Rag Radio Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, were Ole Jorgen Hammeken — an indigenous Greenlandic Inuit polar explorer, social worker, and actor — and French filmmaker Marc Buriot, who was executive producer of the award-winning film, Inuk, … Continue reading

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SPORT / Dave Zirin : The World Joe Paterno Made

Penn State fans. Image from The Big Lead.Fan culture, rape culture,and the world Joe Paterno made The pain might run deeply in Happy Valley but the cancer runs deeper. By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2011 … Continue reading

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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman : Post-Buckeye Election Protection?

Political cartoon by Steve Bell / About.com.Can we transform labor’s Buckeye victoryinto a new era of election protection? By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2011 The crushing defeat Ohio’s working people dealt 1% … Continue reading

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Can we transform labor’s Buckeye victoryinto a new era of election protection? By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2011 The crushing defeat Ohio’s working people dealt 1% politicians last week has critical implications … Continue reading

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Ellen LaConte : When Too Big to Fail is Too Big Not To

“Blick auf den Planeten Erde” by Heikenwaelder Hugo, Austria / Wikimedia Commons.When too big to failis too big not to Where bailout theory comes a cropper, no matter who’s doing or who’s receiving the bailout, is when it ignores the … Continue reading

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