Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

Robert Jensen : Glenn Beck’s Redemption Song

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

rial in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 28. Photo by Alex Brandon / AP / Christian Science Monitor.‘Restoring honor’ in DC:Glenn Beck’s redemption song By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / August 30, 2010 About halfway through Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally … Continue reading →

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Life During Wartime : ‘Danse Macabre’

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThe Rag Blog

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

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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’

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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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Jim Turpin : Assassinations, Anyone?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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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RTÉ News : Iceland to Be Free Press Haven?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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 →

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Thomas Good : Hatred and Healing at Ground Zero

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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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