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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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PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics
By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans that their seemingly all-powerful but culturally backward cousins are slow to understand the … Continue reading
MARTIN MURRAY / CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE / Lt. Burt Gerding and I
Photo by Belmer Wright published in Austin’s underground paper, The Rag, January 15, 1968. By Martin Murray / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2025 Lt. Burt Gerding served in the Austin Police Department (APD) in the Criminal Intelligence Division from … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin 'Red Squad', Austin Police Department, Burt Gerding, Burt Gerding Papers, Criminal Intelligence, Dirty Tricks, Espionage, Martin Murray, Police Informants, Sarah Clark, SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, The Rag Blog, University of Texas
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BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE SCIENCE / It’s flooding down in Texas
Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe one we recently vacated. Caption: Cow Creek and what was Texas State Highway 1431, just … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / THE BOMB / The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years out
The bombings of Hiroshima, left, and Nagasaki. Photos in the public domain. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2025 I have lived now for 80 years in the only country that has used an atomic bomb … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima, Imperialism, Lamar Hankins, Military Atrocities, Nagasaki, Terrorism
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ROBERT COTTRELL / BOOKS / A Trip Through the Long Movement
A Review of Thorne Dreyer’s new book, ‘Notes From the Underground’ By Robert Cottrell / The Rag Blog / April 9, 2025 Notes From the Underground: 77 Articles That Bring the Past to Life, the second collection of Thorne Dreyer’s … 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 →