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By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2012 “Happy Holiday, Happy Holiday, while the merry bells are ringing, may your every wish come true…” Thursday, December 22, 2011 is Yule/Winter Solstice/Midwinter. Lady Moon is in her 4th … Continue reading
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In an attempt to reinvent the Vietnam War, President Obama and the Pentagon have launched a “multi-year national public relations campaign to justify, glorify, and honor Washington’s catastrophic, aggressive, and losing war against Vietnam.” Jack Smith lays bare this cynical … Continue reading
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Ronnie Dugger : LBJ, The Texas Observer & Me
Former Texas Observer editor Ronnie Dugger with President Lyndon Johnson. Photo by Yoichi Yokamoto / Courtesy LBJ Library / Texas Observer.LBJ, The Texas Observer & Me None of us knew it yet, but we Americans were about to be trapped … Continue reading
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Former Texas Observer editor Ronnie Dugger with President Lyndon Johnson. Photo by Yoichi Yokamoto / Courtesty LBJ Library / Texas Observer.‘None of us knew it yet, but we Americans were about to be trapped in the history that Lyndon Johnson … Continue reading
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Beyond Citizens United: Politics Is an Industry, Not Just A Campaign By Danny Schechter / The Rag Blog / June 5, 2012 NEW YORK — In theory, American elections traditionally get going after Labor Day, but, as we can see … Continue reading
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Peter Dreier : How the Big Bucks Won in Wisconsin
Walker spent 88% of the moneyto get 53% of the vote The real winner in Wisconsin on Tuesday was not Gov. Scott Walker, but Big Money. And the real loser was not Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, but democracy. By Peter … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Pschedelic Blues Pioneer Spencer Perskin of Shiva’s Headband
Spencer Perskin of Shiva’s Headband in the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, May 25, 2012. Inset photos below: Susan Perskin and Shawn Siegel. Photos by William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog.Rag Radio:Psychedelic blues pioneerSpencer Perskin of Shiva’s Headband By … Continue reading
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Arson Attack on Women’s Health Organization in New Orleans By Jordan Flaherty NEW ORLEANS — Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and other support for poor women of color, was … Continue reading
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BOOKS / Leslie Griffith : Dan Rather’s ‘Rather Outspoken’
Dan Rather is Rather Outspoken Reporters had best be careful when they set about the business of digging up news. Dan Rather’s unsettling ‘push under the bus’ is an instructive case in point. By Leslie Griffith / Reader Supported News … Continue reading
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Jerry Brown’s karma runs over his dogma By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / The Rag Blog / May 18, 2012 Back in January, California Governor Jerry Brown optimistically forecast that the state budget deficit would be $9.5 billion. To close the … Continue reading
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Austin native Marilyn Buck, who spent 25 years as a federal political prisoner, wrote this collection of “spare… but flagrant” poetry — much of it about “how the human mind can escape the sterility of prison” — while “racing against … Continue reading
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Fascinating stuff! From my interview with Chris Mooney, author of “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality.” Post includes the podcast of our hour-long interview. In his work, Mooney taps scientific research ranging from … Continue reading
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