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Mike Hanks Takes a Shot at the Missile Defense Question
Mike Hanks’remarks below on missile defense systems in eastern Europe will surely prove controversial with many of The Rag Blog’s readers. Let the rumble begin. Please note the “comments” link at the end of the article. ‘It is important to … Continue reading
Belafonte : Colin Powell in the Master’s House, and the Promise of Obama
Actor/activist Harry Belafonte.Obama has a much better starting point than Colin Powell. Powell helped cover up the My Lai massacre and ended up his career supporting the lies that got us into Iraq.By Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Broadcast Media, CNN, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Larry King, Obama Presidency
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Graphic Change is Coming
Graphic image by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog What to say after the historic, emotion filled hours we have just witnessed? Instead of writing, I was motivated to use my graphic design and artistic side to produce this “first … Continue reading
POETRY / Richard Jehn: All the Colour
Truck Road, Welcome, Washington. Photo by author. Click to enlarge.All the Colour Driving through a cavern of colour, Unwittingly watching my life change as the leaves. For all the times I drove that highandlowway, Never did I see it so … Continue reading
Rag Blog Report from Berlin : The Whole World is Watching
Reflections on the US elections and the possibilities for a better world By David MacBryde / The Rag Blog / November 4, 2008 BERLIN — You are not alone today. The whole world is watching. In Berlin tonight we are … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008 Elections, Berlin, David MacBryde, Environment, Germany, Global Economy, United Nations
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Thief of Hearts 2008
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Ernest McMillan and Stoney Burns : Dallas 60s Activists Revisited
The Rag Blog was inspired by an underground newspaper we published in the 1960s in Austin. We called it The Rag. When Carol Neiman and I were editing The Rag — and many more whose bylines you see here from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Anne Lewis, Black Liberation Movement, Black Power, Counterculture, Dallas, New Left, Sixties, SNCC, Texas, Texas History, The Rag, The Rag Blog, Underground Press
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TRUE Democracy and the Common Good Will Lead the American Left to Victory
Expressing the Common Good through cooperative effort. Photo source.The ‘Common Good’ is a Rose that Smells as SweetBy Zwarich / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2008 In his recent piece entitled ‘Socialism, Capitalism: What’s in a Name?‘, David Hamilton … Continue reading
POETRY / Mariann Wizard : Bad Obama
Photo: Dina Rudick/Boston Globe.Bad Obama “In April, the Los Angeles Times published an article about a going-away dinner for [Rashid] Khalidi that [Presidential candidate Barack] Obama attended in Chicago, Illinois, in 2003. Khalidi was leaving to become a professor at … Continue reading
