Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

BOOKS / Harry Targ : Teach Your Children Well

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Raising kids to be radical:‘Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers’ Strike’ By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2010 Teach, your children wellTheir father’s hellDid slowly go byAnd feed them on your dreamsThe one they pickedThe one … Continue reading →

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Bernardine Dohrn : The Obsolete and Dangerous Federal Grand Jury

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Bernardine Dohrn, with Bill Ayers and five-year-old Zayd, on the steps of the federal courthouse in New York City, 1982. Photo by David Handschuh / AP.The curious, mysterious, obsolete,and dangerous federal grand jury The federal grand jury is a secret, … Continue reading →

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Robert Jensen : The Cooperative Alternative

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Art by Joseph Bau / Fearless Fathers.The cooperative movement:Doing business as if people mattered By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / October 6, 2010 There’s no shortage of political blather in this year’s mid-term election campaigns, but most of … Continue reading →

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Sherman DeBrosse : The Puzzle of 2010

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from StudentHacks.The puzzle of 2010:What’s going on with the electorate? By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / October 5, 2010 This year’s election is marked by a great deal of puzzling behavior. Media people report on the peculiar … Continue reading →

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Ed Felien : Jon Stewart, Meet George W. Bush

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

In defense of the Left,with love to Jon Stewart In trying to appear a moderate, Stewart criticized the right for its attacks on Obama and the left for accusing Bush of being a war criminal and comparing him to Hitler. … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Holocaust Thinking in America II: How the Nazis Did It

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Holocaust thinking in America II:How the Nazis did itBy Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / October 5, 2010 [Part two of three. Read part one here.] I know one is not allowed to use the word “nazism” in any … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : The California Cannabis Countdown

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Supporters of Proposition 19 rally in Bay Area. Photo by Bill St. Clair / SF Weekly.California counting down to November 2:Marijuana initiative leading in polls By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 3, 2010 Thousands and thousands of … Continue reading →

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Harvey Wasserman : Founding Fathers Would Make Glenn Beck See Red

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

John Wayne and Thomas Jefferson make surprise appearance at 2009 Waco Tea Party rally. Photo by Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman / Collective Vision.Hey Tea/GOP:Our Founding Fathers were a bunch offree-loving deistic hemp-growersBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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Larry Ray : Our Schools, Their Madrassas

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Letters to Charlie:Our schools, their Madrassas By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / October 1, 2010 Letters to Charlie is a collection of emails to a long time friend. He worked hard … Continue reading →

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Carl Davidson : Mondragon Diaries IV: Banking on the Future

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Arrasate-Mondragon in the Basque Country of Spain. Image from SolidarityEconomy.net.Mondragon Diaries, Day FourWorker coops, worker banks, worker skills:Weathering today’s crisesBy Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / October 1, 2010 [This is the fourth of a five-part series by Carl … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : Holocaust Thinking in America I: The Authoritarian Personality

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

What is the limit of obedience? Illustration of the setup of a Milgram experiment (see below). Created by Wapcaplet in Inkscape / Wikimedia Commons.Holocaust thinking in America I:The Authoritarian Personality My Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / September 30, … Continue reading →

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Bill Freeland : Electric Cars Not All That ‘Green’

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic by Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog.All-electric cars:The not-so-green alternative By Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / September 30, 2010 Conventional wisdom has just assumed electric cars are clean because there’s no tailpipe. So the focus has only … Continue reading →

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