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Danny Schechter : Drones Don’t Talk Back
Predator drone crew at Creech AFB in Nevada. Image from Drone Wars UK.Robots ‘R’ Us:Military-style drones reportedon 63 bases in the USA By Danny Schechter / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2012 NEW YORK CITY — It’s easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerial Drones, Danny Schechter, Drone Technology, Robots, U.S. Military
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : ‘More Powerful Than Dynamite’
Occupy 1914?‘More Powerful Than Dynamite’ By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | May 2, 2012 [More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York’s Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones (2012: Walker and Company); Hardcover; 416 pp.; $28.] … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anarchism, Books, New York City, Radical History, Ron Jacobs
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Lamar W. Hankins : Republican Mind is Terrible Thing to Waste
Congressman Paul Ryan: A terrible thing to waste. Image from rrstar.com. A Republican mind isa terrible thing to waste By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | May 2, 2012 “The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American … Continue reading
Greg Moses : Occupy May Day: Life, Labor, and Liberty
Occupy posters by Eric Drooker.Life, labor, and liberty:May Day then and now By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / May 1, 20112 Counting in reverse through the great Theses on Feuerbach, we pass by the iconic eleventh, which demands … Continue reading
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Tagged General Strike, Greg Moses, Labor History, May Day, Occupy Movement
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CARTOON / Joshua Brown : Life During Wartime: Things to Look Forward To
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2012.[Joshua Brown is the executive director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Joshua Brown, Mitt Romney, Political Cartoon, Robert Bork
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INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Gerald Nicosia on Kerouac and the Beats
Visions of Kerouac: Gerald Nicosia. Photo illustration by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.Beats are back bigger than before: A Rag Blog interview withKerouac scholar Gerald Nicosia By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | April 16, 2012 For decades, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat Generation, Gerald Nicosia, Interview, Jack Kerouac, Jonah Raskin
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Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers : Why We Oppose NATO
Graphic from Left Turn :: Virage a Gauche.Why we oppose NATO! The new NATO is a secretive and costly instrument of war and aggression. It makes its own rules and confirms its own authority. By Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Imperialism, NATO, U.S. Foreign Policy
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Two on Working Class Rabble-Rousing
Two books on workers and rabble-rousing: Kick some ass with the working class By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | April 25, 2012 [Autoworkers Under the Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream, by Greg … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Conservative Politics, Labor Movement, Ron Jacobs, Social Action, Unions, Working Class
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Robert Jensen : There Are Marxists in India?
Prabhat Patnaik. Image from The Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism.‘There are Marxists in India?’ Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the global crisis By Robert Jensen | The Rag Blog | April 25, 2012 After an engaging half-hour interview with India’s pre-eminent … Continue reading
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Tagged Economists, India, Marxism, Prabhat Patnaik, Robert Jensen, Socialists
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Harry Targ : Take a Deep Breath!
Image from The Blog of Progress.Take a deep breath:How do we build our movements? The response of 2011 was spontaneous, passionate, daring, and electric in its transformational possibilities. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | April 25, 2012 Over … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Occupy Movement, Political Organizing, Progressives, Social Change, Socialists
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David Bacon : How the Anti-Immigrant Tide Was Turned in Mississippi
Members of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance at a rally at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Jan. 12, 2011. Photo by Rogelio V. Solis / AP.How Mississippi’s black/brown strategybeat the South’s anti-immigrant wave By David Bacon / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
