Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

Alan Haber : Exposing the Dark Forces

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

As long as these forces operate, and are not pursued, there is no democracy, whatever the window dressings. By Alan Haber / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2009 See ‘Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?’ by Shane O’Sullivan, Below. … Continue reading →

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Neda and the Kent State 4 : Heartbreaking Then and Now

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

(Above) Neda Agha-Soltan, 27, who bled to death on the streets of Tehran, Saturday, June 20, 2009. Still shot from video taken with cell phone and posted to YouTube. (Below) Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the dead … Continue reading →

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NASA Scientist, Actress Hannah, Arrested in Coal Mining Protest

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Actress Darryl Hannah is arrested by West Virginia State Police Tuesday, June 23, 2009 following a mountaintop removal mining protest in Naoma, W.Va. She was among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork Elementary school that sits … Continue reading →

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Short Attention-Span News (A Little Birdie Told Me)

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Trippin’ down the cobblestones:Short Attention-Span News By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2009 [“slow down, you move too fast; you got to make the morning last; just trippin down the cobblestones, lookin for fun and … Continue reading →

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Health Insurance : The High Cost of ‘Competition’

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Can private insurers compete? The truth is that the Republicans aren’t opposed to a government-run system because the private companies can do it better and cheaper — they can’t. They oppose the public insurance choice because they want to protect … Continue reading →

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U.S. National Debt : Cliffs Notes for Conservatives

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. With apologies to Cliffs Notes.Cliffs Notes for Conservatives I find it both bewildering and angering when Republican conservatives lambaste President Obama for the present state of indebtedness on America’s balance sheet as … Continue reading →

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James Retherford : Who Watches the Watchman? J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

J. Edgar Hoover and friend.Part IWho Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’sClandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2009 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?— Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 [A version … Continue reading →

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How to Rig an Election : See Florida, Ohio and Iran

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Good question! Demonstrator at June 17, 2009, Austin rally protesting the Iranian elections. Photo by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.OOPS! We rigged the Iran/Florida-Ohio vote count AGAIN!! The chief difference between Iran 2009 and Ohio 2004 — and Florida … Continue reading →

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Obama Must Fight for Public Option, Real Health Care Reform

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

President Obama addresses the American Medical Association, June 15, 2009. Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP. In some way the message must get through to the Senate Democratic leadership that they were elected to represent THE PEOPLE and were … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker :
Transportation politics and the Austin road lobby

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Part 2: The Austin road lobby: Texas transportation politics, the developers/ and those pesky populist reformers. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | June 22, 2009 [This is the second part of a series on transportation in Austin. In … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Eduardo Galeano’s ‘Mirrors’

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

From Hugo Chavez to Barack Obama and to you, too… Eduardo Galeano’s Mirrors:A reflection on Uruguay’s preeminent author By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2009 He doesn’t have a full beard like Che, doesn’t smoke big … Continue reading →

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Judy Gumbo Albert : My Body. My Story.

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Flowers outside the Women’s Health Care Services abortion clinic, scene of the murder of Dr. George Tiller on May 31, 2009, in Wichita, Kansas. Photo by Kelly Glasscock / Reuters.My body, my story: In memory of Dr. George Tiller We … Continue reading →

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