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Alice Embree : Protesters Block Fort Hood Troop Deployment
Participants in the blockade action at Fort Hood, Texas, on August 23, 2010. Left to right: Iraq Veterans Bobby Whittenberg-James and Crystal Colon, Jeff Grant, Military Spouse Cynthia Thomas and Afghanistan Veteran Matthis Chiroux. Photo from Fort Hood Disobeys. Protesters … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War Vets, Direct Action, Fort Hood, Iraq Occupation, Peace Movement, Political Protest
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Harry Targ : Religion, Politics, and War
Christians fight Muslims in illustration from medieval manuscript. Image from syllabus, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.Sanctioned by a wrathful God:Religion, politics, and war By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2010 Childhood remembrances When I was a kid … Continue reading
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Tagged Crusades, Harry Targ, Islam, Religion, Religious Tolerance, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Tom Hayden : Will Iraq ‘Invite’ Us to Stay?
Image from Progressive America Rising.U.S. combat ends in IraqBut will Iraq ‘invite’ us to stay? By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 See ‘The myth that the combat troops are leaving Iraq’ by Col. Andrew Berdy, … Continue reading
Mariann G. Wizard : Dallas Activists Honor Marilyn Buck
Poster of Marilyn Buck on wall in San Francisco. Photo from Interchange.Black August tribute:Marilyn Buck honored byNew generation of Dallas activists By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 See ‘Black August’ by Marilyn Buck, Below. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dallas, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners
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Paul Krassner : Ruben Salazar and the ‘Kiss of Death’
August 30, 1970 Los Angeles Times headlines death of journalist Ruben Salazar.Back in the news:Revisiting the 1970 killing ofCrusading journalist Ruben Salazar By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2010 Salazar had been working on an exposé… … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy, FBI, Journalists, Law Enforcement, Los Angeles, Paul Krassner, Ruben Salazar, Watergate
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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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