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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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Dick J. Reavis : The Conspiracy in the Attic
Above, Dick Reavis now. Photo from San Antonio Current. Below, Dick Reavis then, in 1966 demonstration by Sexual Freedom League on University of Texas campus. Montage image scanned from The Daily Texan.The conspiracy in an Austin attic:My first rad-confab I … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Civil Rights Movement, Dick J. Reavis, Marijuana, SDS, Sixties, UT-Austin
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Michael Meeropol : Islamophobia and the ‘Two Americas’
‘Islam in Two Americas’: Times piece reflects pernicious xenophobia The implication… is that when Americans display anti-Muslim bigotry — as in the past they had been anti-semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, anti-immigrant — it makes for a quick and more complete assimilation… … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Ground Zero, Immigration, Islam, Islamophobia, Michael Meeropol, New York Times, Religion, Religious Freedom, Xenophobia
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Greg Moses : A Conversation With Saad Nabeel
Image from Dallas Morning News / Facebook.A Conversation with Saad Nabeel: ‘While Everyone Goes to College, I Go to Jail’ or How Saad Nabeel became an All-American Kid, majored in Electrical Engineering, was Thrown into Jail by the USA, deported … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh, Dallas, Greg Moses, Immigration, Saad Nabeel
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Marc Estrin : The Far-Reaching Effects of Child Abuse
Image from PsychCentral.Child abuse:Here, there, and likely everywhere By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2010 There have been several large studies on the effects of occupation — bombing, physical injury, house demolitions, tear gassing, house searches, … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Abuse, Marc Estrin, Military, Palestinian Occupation, Psychology, Science
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Harry Targ : Robert Gibbs and the ‘Professional Left’
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs slammed the “professional left” for being too critical of Barack Obama. Photo by Carolyn Kaster /AP.Criticizing Obama:A dialectical look at the ‘professional left’ By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2010 … Continue reading
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Tagged Media, Obama Administration, Progressives, Robert Gibbs, The Left
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Ted McLaughlin : Debunking the Immigrant Myths
Sign on fence of ranch on US/Mexico border near Campo, California. Photo by Fred Greaves / Reuters.Fear fuels $600 million border bill:Debunking the myths about immigrants By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2010 On Thursday, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Fear Tactics, Immigration, Mexican Border, Racism, Right Wing, Ted McLaughlin
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John Ross : ‘El Jefe Diego’ and ‘The Mysterious Disappearers’
Photo of kidnapped Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, released via Twitter. This is the second version, with the copy of the muckraking newsweekly El Proceso, featuring his face on the cover, apparently photoshopped in.Bicentennial mischief in the making?The mysterious kidnapping of … Continue reading
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Tagged Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, Kidnappings, Mexico, Subcomandante Marcos, Zapatistas
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Clare Bayard : Soldiers Charge Troops Unprepared for Deployment
Troops in Afghanistan: How prepared are they? Photo by Brennan Linsley /AP.Army Weak:Reserve members facing deploymentCharge their company not fit for battle By Clare Bayard / The Rag Blog / August 12, 2010 See ‘A call to action at Fort … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Anti-War GIs, Clare Bayard, Fort Hood, Iraq Occupation, IVAW, PTSD, U.S. Army, U.S. Military
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Roger Baker : Is Marx Still Relevant?
Image from The Great Illuminator.Confessions of a neo-Marxist:Why Marx still matters By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2010 I suppose I might now call myself a neo-Marxist. This is not to argue that Marx does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Karl Marx, Marxism, Roger Baker, World History
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VERSE / Alyce Guynn : Minnie Redux
Image from Found Shit. Minnie Redux(after Cab Calloway’s ‘Minnie the Moocher’) I never kicked the gongyet I have longedfor an opiatic oblivionto the world pressing down I find it– that escape–in books, rented BBC seriesthe hat moviesand, at times, in … Continue reading
