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ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Embree was cohost with Thorne Dreyer on Rag Radio interviewing author Martin … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Austin 'Red Squad', Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State, Martin J. Murray, SDS, Surveillance, Texas
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MARTIN J. MURRAY / REMEMBRANCE / Larry Caroline disarmed critics without demeaning them
By Martin J. Murray / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2025 I knew Larry Caroline for only a few short years in Austin. It was a memorable experience. My first recollection of Larry was at the Capitol Building around … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967, Frank Erwin, Free Speech, John Silber, Larry Caroline, Martin J. Murray, Sixties, Trudy Stern, University of Texas at Austin
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ALLEN YOUNG / BOOK REVIEW / The Trees are Speaking
By Allen Young / The Rag Blog / December 3, 2025 “The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forest,” by Lynda Mapes, University of Washington Press, 2024. Well, we all know that trees cannot talk. But we also know … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Author, Book Review, Ecology, Environment, Lynda Mapes, Trees are Speaking
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THORNE DREYER / JOURNALISM / Central to the new Rag’s voice is to retain the levity of the original
By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / December 1, 2025 Since editors Ava Hosseini and Kira Small — with the help of managing editor Grant Lindberg — started their seemingly modest endeavor to resurrect the underground newspaper, The Rag, that … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict
By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. His mother grew up in Warsaw and survived the Warsaw … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE / MEDIA / A new Rag for a new generation
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2025 Many of us have worked to keep The Rag flag flying since the 2005 reunion. It’s hard to believe that was 20 years ago. We’ve kept Rag history alive … Continue reading
JOSHUA BROWN / LIFE DURING WARTIME SPECIAL / Remembering Dick Cheney
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Tagged Cartoon, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Joshua Brown, Life During Wartime, Rag Bloggers, Vice President
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ALICE EMBREE / REMEMBRANCE / Sam Jones: antiwar activist, lover of music, builder of guitars
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 27, 2025 On September 7, 2025 at a memorial for Sam Jones, there was music. Friends and families shared memories and sang along to songs Sam loved. His younger brother told … Continue reading
HENRY MECREDY / REMEMBRANCE / Gavan Duffy was a scholar with a sense of humor
By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2025 Gavan Duffy was born December 8, 1949, in Massachusetts. He passed away in Syracuse, New York, on September 6, 2025. He graduated from the University of Houston and taught political … Continue reading
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Tagged Gavan Duffy, Henry Mecredy, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Scholar, Space City!, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one should be harmed for their beliefs, views, or opinions. Yet our country, the … Continue reading
MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Virtually everything the Trump Administration has done to ramp up deportations has been illegal
Honk for Trump Vance. Photo by Thomas Hawk / Flickr/ Creative Commons. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New … Continue reading
MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections
Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on November 7, 2025, by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New … Continue reading →