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BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE CHANGE / Climate Change Review 2025
Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. The Science of the Effects of Warming By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 31, 2025 The good news is real, but a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Climate Change Review, Environment, Global Warming
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JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Levitating the Pentagon
Levitating the Pentagon, and Other Uplifting Stories: A Life of Activism By Nancy Kurshan; Three Rooms Press; 2025 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / December 29, 2025 Nancy Kurshan might have carved out and published a big chunk of … Continue reading
DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas
Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential crisis because of its decision to appease the Texas governor and legislature … Continue reading
LARRY PILTZ / VERSE / Save The Futures
Save The Futures By Larry Piltz / The Rag Blog / December 11, 2025 To save our futures we’ll need supplies of sutures to stitch tightly up with courage the scourges violent urges to bind the wounds and spare the … Continue reading
ALLEN YOUNG / BOOK REVIEW / The Trees are Speaking
By Allen Young / The Rag Blog / December 3, 2025 “The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forest,” by Lynda Mapes, University of Washington Press, 2024. Well, we all know that trees cannot talk. But we also know … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Author, Book Review, Ecology, Environment, Lynda Mapes, Trees are Speaking
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THORNE DREYER / JOURNALISM / Central to the new Rag’s voice is to retain the levity of the original
By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / December 1, 2025 Since editors Ava Hosseini and Kira Small — with the help of managing editor Grant Lindberg — started their seemingly modest endeavor to resurrect the underground newspaper, The Rag, that … Continue reading
SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / HISTORY / CodePink: Austin’s history is alive at the Austin History Center
CodePink Austin at “I Miss America” pageant in Million Musicans March, March 17, 2007. Photo by Jim Turpin. By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / November 27, 2025 AUSTIN — With the current U.S. administration trying to excise … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict
By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. His mother grew up in Warsaw and survived the Warsaw … Continue reading
JOSHUA BROWN / LIFE DURING WARTIME SPECIAL / Remembering Dick Cheney
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Tagged Cartoon, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Joshua Brown, Life During Wartime, Rag Bloggers, Vice President
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HENRY MECREDY / REMEMBRANCE / Gavan Duffy was a scholar with a sense of humor
By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2025 Gavan Duffy was born December 8, 1949, in Massachusetts. He passed away in Syracuse, New York, on September 6, 2025. He graduated from the University of Houston and taught political … Continue reading
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Tagged Gavan Duffy, Henry Mecredy, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Scholar, Space City!, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one should be harmed for their beliefs, views, or opinions. Yet our country, the … Continue reading
MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections
Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on November 7, 2025, by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New … Continue reading →