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Tom Hayden : 9/11 Blind
Illustration by Don Button / Newsreview.com9/11 blind We’re 10 years past the twin towers attack and still fighting wars in its name. When will we open our eyes? By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2011 The … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Endless War, Peace Movement, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Author and noted scholar Mike Davis suggests that, 10 years ago, Lower Manhattan became the “Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism.” As with the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in 1914, a “small network of peripheral but well-connected … Continue reading
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Mike Davis : The Embers of September
Embers. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The Embers of September By Mike Davis / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2011 Ten years ago, Lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism. Although conscience recoils against making an equation between … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Imperialism, Mike Davis, War on Terror, World History
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Jay D. Jurie : Keystone XL is a Pipeline to Big Profits
Canadian tar sands crude oil. Image from The Alaska Gas Pipeline.Keystone XL:A pipeline to big oil profits Former NASA scientist Jim Hansen has argued that if tar sands development continues and the pipeline is built, it is essentially ‘game over’ … Continue reading
Sarito Carol Neiman : Healthcare on the Ground II: The Angels
Nurse as guardian angel? Art by Amy Jordan / folkartblondes’s photostream / Flickr.Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the ground – Part II The angels are the ones who are doing more than just their jobs. By Sarito Carol Neiman / The … Continue reading
Bob Feldman : The Alamo and the Republic of Texas
Battle of the Alamo. Art via Son of the South.The hidden history of Texas Part 3: The 1827-1836 years under Mexican rule/2 By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / September 7, 2011 [This is the second segment of Part … Continue reading
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Tagged Alamo, American History, Bob Feldman, Mexican History, Republic of Texas, Slavery, Texas History
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Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Big Oil Profits By Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / On July 25, 2010, a pipeline linking Sarnia, Ontario to an oil refinery at Griffith, Indiana, spilled more than 800,000 gallons of tar … Continue reading
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The Embers of September By Mike Davis / The Rag Blog / Ten years ago, Lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism. Although conscience recoils against making an equation between the assassination of a single Archduke and … Continue reading
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Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the Ground – Part II [Shredding the Envelope (“Ruminations on news, taboos, and space beyond time.”) is Sarito Carol Neiman’s (occasionally) regular column for The Rag Blog. This is part one of three. Read Part I … Continue reading
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Nancy Miller Saunders : Idiots and Blinders
Vietnam Veterans protest the war at the Republican National Convention in 1972. Photo by Langelle.Idiots and blinders:Military ‘intelligence’ then and now There is nothing new about such blindness to alternative possibilities. Forty years ago those of us who wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged G. Gordon Liddy, Military Intelligence, Nancy Miller Saunders, Peace Movement, Sixties, Vietnam, VVAW
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Harry Tarq : 9/11’s in U.S. and Chile 28 Years Apart
After 9/11: The War-on-Terror Machine. Political cartoon by David Baldinger / dbaldinger.com.U.S. and Chile:Two 9/11’s have similar impact In both countries the 9/11 event was followed by violence, threats to democracy, and economic shifts from the vast majority of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Chile, Harry Targ, Militarism, Patriot Act, Salvador Allende, U.S. Foreign Policy, War on Terror
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United States and Chile:The impacts of two 9/11’s By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 9/11 in Chile On the bright and sunny morning of September 11, 1973, aircraft bombed targets in Valparaiso, Chile, and moved … Continue reading
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