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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 →

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 →

OCCUPY AMERICA By David Van Os / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2011 The young people who started and grew the Occupy Wall Street movement have given their country and the world an incredible gift. We should all thank … Continue reading →

Religion: The elixir of Republican politics By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2011 An elixir is a substance taken to cure one’s ills, or it’s a substance used to carry an ingredient to do its … Continue reading →

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400 richest Americans having more wealth than half of all Americans combined – Amy Goodman