Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

Ivan Koop Kuper :
Stacy and Bunni: A Montrose Love Story

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

If Stacy Sutherland of the 13th Floor Elevators were alive he’d be celebrating his 65th birthday this May. By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2011 HOUSTON — On the corner of Pacific and Hopkins streets … Continue reading →

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Ellen LaConte : Garden As If Your Life Depended on It

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Digging in for the future. Image from Civil Eats.Because it will:Garden as if your life depended on it By Ellen LaConte / The Rag Blog / March 31, 2011 Spring has sprung — at least south of the northern tier … Continue reading →

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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Health Care and the Congress from Bedlam

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Birth of the Republican Congress: “The Interior of Bedlam” (Bethlem Royal Hospital), from A Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth, 1763. Image from McCormick Library, Northwestern University / Wikimedia Commons.The Congress from Bedlam:Health care and American prioritiesBy Dr. Stephen R. Keister … Continue reading →

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Tom Hayden : Samantha Power Goes to War

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Samantha Power. Image from The 46.Obama’s ‘humanitarian hawk’:Samantha Power goes to war By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / March 30, 2011 Barack Obama’s war in Libya bears the intellectual imprint of Samantha Power, the Dublin-born human rights author … Continue reading →

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David Bacon : Iraqis Call for Real Democracy

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Unemployed men demonstrate outside the office of a contractor who had promised them work. Photo David Bacon. Image from Truthout.Eight years of occupation:Iraqis take to the streets, call for real democracy By David Bacon / The Rag Blog / March … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Natural Gas and the Perils of Fracking

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Light my fire. Images from the documentary film, Gasland.The perils of fracking:Protecting our waterfrom natural gas production By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 Anyone who drinks water has a stake in the production of … Continue reading →

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Jordan Flaherty : Race and Politics in Rural Louisiana

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from The Louisiana Justice Center.Race and politics in rural Louisiana town The Black mayor of Waterproof, Louisiana has spent nearly a year behind bars without bail. By Jordan Flaherty / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 NEW ORLEANS … Continue reading →

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Ted McLaughlin : Lies, Damned Lies, and Republicans

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

You lie. Graffiti art by Banksy.Our ‘true and false’ test:Exposing more Republican liesBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 Since the heyday of the Reagan administration the Republican Party has been making the rules for the … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Ted Poe is the Bully with the Booming Voice

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX). Photo from zimbio.Politico Ted Poe:The bully with the booming voice By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 24, 2011 The recent article in The New York Times (picked up this past Sunday … Continue reading →

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Paul Krassner : My Encounter with Owsley

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Owsley ‘Bear’ Stanley, left, with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in 1969. Photo by Ho / Reuters. “Investigative satirist” and former Realist editor Paul Krassner will join Thorne Dreyer on Friday, April 1, for a Rag Radio April Fool’s Special. … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : The Last Great California Hunter

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Wild boar photographed on Cottontail Creek Road in the hills behind Cayucos, California. Photo from goingslo’s photostream / Flickr.Tooch Colombo: The last great California hunter By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2011 Tooch Colombo isn’t like … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Carl Davidson : The Mondragon Cooperatives and 21st Century Socialism

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Five books with radical critiques:The Mondragon Cooperatives and twenty-first century socialism By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2011 From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development by Greg MacLeod (UCCB Press, 1997) The Myth of … Continue reading →

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