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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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RTÉ News : Iceland to Be Free Press Haven?
No more of this? Image from Susan Loone’s Blog.Iceland set to become free havenFor journalists and whistleblowers By RTÉ News / August 24, 2010 After Iceland’s near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven … Continue reading
Thomas Good : Hatred and Healing at Ground Zero
Photo by Bud Korotzer / NLN.The objectification of Other:Hatred and healing at Ground Zero By Thomas Good / The Rag Blog / August 23, 2010 See photo gallery, Below. NEW YORK — Sunday was another rainy day in New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Ground Zero, Islam, Islamophobia, New York City, Religious Tolerance, Social Protest, Thomas Good
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Barbara Hines is a famed immigration attorney and a clinical law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-director of the immigration clinic at the UT School of Law. A two-time Fulbright scholar, Hines has practiced immigration … Continue reading
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Alice Embree : Protesters Block Fort Hood Troop Deployment
Participants in the blockade action at Fort Hood, Texas, on August 23, 2010. Left to right: Iraq Veterans Bobby Whittenberg-James and Crystal Colon, Jeff Grant, Military Spouse Cynthia Thomas and Afghanistan Veteran Matthis Chiroux. Photo from Fort Hood Disobeys. Protesters … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War Vets, Direct Action, Fort Hood, Iraq Occupation, Peace Movement, Political Protest
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Harry Targ : Religion, Politics, and War
Christians fight Muslims in illustration from medieval manuscript. Image from syllabus, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Sanctioned by a wrathful God:Religion, politics, and war By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2010 Childhood remembrances When I was a kid … Continue reading
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Tagged Crusades, Harry Targ, Islam, Religion, Religious Tolerance, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Tom Hayden : Will Iraq ‘Invite’ Us to Stay?
Image from Progressive America Rising.U.S. combat ends in IraqBut will Iraq ‘invite’ us to stay? By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 See ‘The myth that the combat troops are leaving Iraq’ by Col. Andrew Berdy, … Continue reading
MUNICH FOR THE DEMOCRATS By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 In 1938, Hitler and the Nazis were flexing their power in Germany and doing a very good job of scaring the rest of Europe, … Continue reading
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Mariann G. Wizard : Dallas Activists Honor Marilyn Buck
Poster of Marilyn Buck on wall in San Francisco. Photo from Interchange.Black August tribute:Marilyn Buck honored byNew generation of Dallas activists By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 See ‘Black August’ by Marilyn Buck, Below. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dallas, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners
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Paul Krassner : Ruben Salazar and the ‘Kiss of Death’
August 30, 1970 Los Angeles Times headlines death of journalist Ruben Salazar.Back in the news:Revisiting the 1970 killing ofCrusading journalist Ruben Salazar By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 Salazar had been working on an exposé… … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy, FBI, Journalists, Law Enforcement, Los Angeles, Paul Krassner, Ruben Salazar, Watergate
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Larry Ray : Amazon: Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
Graphic, with a tad of Photoshop by Larry Ray, from Mobile Reference.Amazon: Don’t call us, we’ll call you(Or: Dude, my shoe’s got a square toe) By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / August20, 2010 OK, I should never have … Continue reading
Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince : The Looming Specter of a Strike on Iran
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft in Afghanistan.Looming specter:Strike on Iran an increasing possiblity By Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2010 Reading the signs Signs — coming from a number of … Continue reading
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Tagged Foreign Policy, Ibrahim Kazerooni, Iran Attack, Israel, Rob Prince, U.S. Military
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