Author Archives: Thorne Dreyer

Larry Ray : (Tea) Party Hats and the Great American Snake

Photo by Oliver Douliery / Abaca Press.Nonplussed in Naples:Party hats and the Great American Snake By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / August 29, 2010 I talk with friends in Italy almost daily and this past year it has … Continue reading

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David McReynolds : Glenn Beck’s Faux Dream

The great March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Photo by Warren K. Leffler / U.S. News & World Report / Wikimedia Commons.Remembering August 28th:Martin Luther King had a real dream By David McReynolds / The Rag … Continue reading

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Marc Estrin : Cover Ups

Photo by Donna Bister / The Rag Blog.COVER UPS By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / August 28, 2010 Dionysus reigns! Our front porch is overwhelmed with grapes red and white, leaves bristling out like mad conductor’s hair, fruit … Continue reading

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Jordan Flaherty : Five Years After Katrina and Still Not Home

Image from Facing South.Displacement continues:New Orleans five years after Katrina More than 100,000 New Orleanians received a one-way ticket out of town and still have received no help in coming back, and these voices are left out of most stories … Continue reading

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Gloria Feldt : Gender Disparities and Aniston-O’Reilly Spat

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly attacked Jennifer Aniston for her comments on single parenting. Photos by Sykes, AP; Lovekin / Getty. Image from New York Daily News.Women’s Equality Day:Aniston comments on single parentingGet O’Reilly all riled upBy Gloria Feldt / … Continue reading

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Harvey Wasserman : Honor Dr. King and Bring the Troops Home Now

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with President Lyndon Johnson in the White House, March 1966. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto / Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.Honor Dr. Martin Luther King: Bring the troops home NOW! By Harvey Wasserman / The … Continue reading

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John Ross : ‘Los Barrenderos’ are Mexico City’s ‘Working Class Heroes’

Barrendero. Photo by jmolagar / flickriver. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all … Continue reading

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Mariann Wizard reviews Nancy Miller Saunders’ book, “Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers,” about the historically significant anti-war movement that developed among GIs and veterans of the Vietnam War — and the IVAW, the group that … Continue reading

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Jim Turpin : Assassinations, Anyone?

Image from Assassins / IMFDB.Due process and special ops:Assassinations, anyone? By Jim Turpin / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Every American citizen has heard the legal phrase “due process of law,” but do you really know what that … Continue reading

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BOOKS / Mariann G. Wizard : The Odyssey of Our Winter Soldiers

Nancy Miller Saunders’ Combat by Trial:Documenting 20th century ‘winter soldiers’ By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers by Nancy Miller Saunders. (iUniverse, Inc., 2008.) 591 … Continue reading

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Tom reports on the dueling demonstrations in New York City near the proposed Ground Zero Muslim community center. He discusses the “objectification of Other as evil incarnate,” and points out how it is easier to hate than to love. He … Continue reading

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A group of protesters — including veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an army wife — protested in Killeen, Texas, against the deployment of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Iraq — and temporarily blocked buses carrying … Continue reading

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