Category Archives: RagBlog

Rick Perry and the Texasdeath penalty smokescreen By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / October 11, 2011 The new documentary Incendiary: The Willingham Case works at two levels. It focuses on what happens when supposedly expert witnesses in … Continue reading →

Born on Death Row By Steve Russell Capital punishment, the saying goes, means that those without the capital get the punishment, and over 35 years of labor in criminal law has yet to show me a case that disproves it. … Continue reading →

West Coast-based journalist/activist Jonah Raskin reports on the first day of Occupy Austin, where “1,500 youthful demonstrators, aging protesters, and ageless rabble-rousers” gathered outside Austin City Hall to voice their anger about Wall Street greed and a variety of social … Continue reading →

he New Anti-Corporate Movement Comes to Austin, Texas By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2011 [West Coast author, journalist, and Rag Blog contributor Jonah Raskin attended the first day of Occupy Austin, held outside Austin City … Continue reading →

he New Anti-Corporate Movement Comes to Austin, Texas By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2011 AUSTIN — Occupy Austin attracted the young who found it new and wonderful, and the old who found it familiar and … Continue reading →

Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity by Bill Meacham on October 4th, 2011 The human capacity for second-order mentation – the ability we have to consider in thought and imagination not just the world around us but ourselves as well – has led … Continue reading →

Wes Jackson of The Land Institute “has been pursuing the science and tweaking the strategy” of a sustainable agriculture movement for more than three decades. “Instead of a brittle industrial agriculture dependent on fossil fuels,” Jackson’s research team “is working … Continue reading →

New York Times bestselling novelist David Lindsey, who lives in Austin, Texas, discusses his writing — and the booming contract espionage business that is the subject of his latest novel cycle — with Rag Radio’s Thorne Dreyer. (Go to post … Continue reading →

Retired history prof Don Swift continues his Rag Blog series on the theocratic Christian movement known as Dominionism with a discussion of its “most vigorous branch,” the New Apostolic Reformation, and its connections to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. “Two years … Continue reading →

Mariann Wizard reviews Jonah Raskin’s new book, Marijuanaland: Dispatches From an American War. Jonah, who was active with the Yippies in the Sixties, is a professor at Sonoma State University and has written biographies of Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg and … Continue reading →