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COMICS / Paul Buhle : Beyond the Superhero
Pages from Die Stadt (1925), a “novel in woodcuts” by anarchist artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). Masereel’s novels are not usually treated as “comics.”Beyond the superhero With the boom in graphic novels, comics are likely to appear anywhere — sometimes lavish … Continue reading
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Steve Weissman : Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly
Rebiya Kadeer” : Her skirts are hardly snow white. Photo from the Sunday Morning Herald.Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly Rebiya Kadeer, the fascinating woman at the center of the cock-up, would never be taken for a modern-day Mata Hari. By … Continue reading
A Nuclear Burma? My Oh Myanmar
Senior General Than Shwe, Burmese head of state.Nuclear weapons for Burma? It will do no one any good, including the Burmese people, to allow these bloodthirsty nuts to get nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. By Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
Robert Jensen on Christina Nehring : Conflicting Visions of Romantic Love
Christina Nehring. Photo by Russell Jacob / Philly.com.Conflicting visions of romantic love:A review of Christina Nehring’s A Vindication of Love By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / July 21, 2009 [A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Relationships
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Walter Cronkite and the Meltdown at Three Mile Island
CBS anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the catastrophic meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, March 28, 1979.Walter Cronkite, Three Mile Island and ‘Lamar’s Folly’ in the Climate Bill The nation — the world — cannot afford more Three … Continue reading
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Lifeguard on Duty : Swimming with the Investor Class
Photo from donsafer.com.Whose Recovery?: Swimming with the Investor Class ‘Never was a rich man who didn’t get his money off a poor man’s back,’ is what Paul would say. Which is another way of claiming that all Real Value comes … Continue reading
Cost of Health Care Reform : Wails of Indignation from the Right
Graphic from sibson.com. ‘According to the logic of those now shedding crocodile tears, we ought, in order to remain truly American and truly free, retain the precious liberties of our people to be illiterate, to suffer accidents without indemnification, as … Continue reading
Honduras : The Stalemate Continues; Repression Steps Up
Roberto Micheletti (left) and Manuel Zelaya in friendlier times. (Though Micheletti doesn’t look all that friendly.) Photo by La Prensa, Honduras. At the end of the meetings on July 19, [Costa Rican President Óscar] Arias asked for another 72 hours … Continue reading
Houston : Walter Cronkite’s Map
Now it’s Dan’s By Dan Earhart / The Rag Blog / July 20, 2009 Here is my work space. The map has no roads. I look at it every day. It used to hang in the KTRH newsroom in Houston … Continue reading
Refusing to Deploy : The Court Martial of Victor Agosto
Victor Agosto and Jackie at Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen, Texas. Jackie made the sign for Victor who is facing a court martial for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.GI resisters need … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War GIs, Fort Hood, Peace Movement, Texas, U.S. Military
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