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Police officers with “non-lethal ordnance” weapons after an early morning raid on Occupy Oakland’s tent city, Oakland, CA, Oct.25, 2011. Photo by Stephen Lam / Reuters.Last night in Oakland:Riot cops use ‘non-lethal projectiles’to attack occupiers’ encampment Scott Olsen, who served … Continue reading →

By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / One of Austin’s most colorful events of the year is the Dia de los Muertos festival organized by the good folks at Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum. For 28 years, the museum has … Continue reading →

Beyond the Causal Veilby Bill Meacham Quantum indeterminacy operates inside your brain. What does that say about the nature of human will and decision-making?(1) We’ve taken a look at the world of quantum physics before, but a little recap is … Continue reading →

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Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 6: 1860-1865 In 1861, the slave-owning Anglo political leaders of Texas decided that the state should secede from the United States and join the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. According to Alwyn Barr’s Black Texans … Continue reading →

PEACE GRANNY CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC AT IRAQ WAR’S ENDby Joan Wile, Author“Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace” (Citadel Press) The news hit me like an electric shock. Was this for real? I stared at … Continue reading →

Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 6: 1860-1865 In 1861, the slave-owning Anglo political leaders of Texas decided that the state should secede from the United States and join the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. According to Alwyn Barr’s Black Texans … Continue reading →

Where Occupy & No Nukes merge & win By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2011 The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing — and saving — the world. … Continue reading →

Mike Davis sees prophesies of today’s Occupy Wall Street movement in John Carpenter’s classic “date-night terror” flick, They Live. “As Carpenter foresaw, force enough Americans out of their homes and/or careers… and something new and huge will begin to slouch … Continue reading →

An exclusive Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn — the leader of late Sixties SDS and the Weather Underground who now teaches law at Northwestern University and is an advocate for children and family justice — by an old colleague, … Continue reading →

Bernardine Dorhn: Never the Good Girl, Not Then, not Now An Interview with The Rag Blog By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7-FM (and streamed live on … Continue reading →