Category Archives: RagBlog

Former NASA scientist Jim Hansen has argued that if tar sands development continues and the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is built, “it is essentially ‘game over’ for climate change.” Jay Jurie tells of the history of the extraction … Continue reading →

Author and noted scholar Mike Davis suggests that, 10 years ago, Lower Manhattan became the “Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism.” As with the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in 1914, a “small network of peripheral but well-connected … Continue reading →

Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Big Oil Profits By Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / On July 25, 2010, a pipeline linking Sarnia, Ontario to an oil refinery at Griffith, Indiana, spilled more than 800,000 gallons of tar … Continue reading →

The Embers of September By Mike Davis / The Rag Blog / Ten years ago, Lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism. Although conscience recoils against making an equation between the assassination of a single Archduke and … Continue reading →

Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the Ground – Part II [Shredding the Envelope (“Ruminations on news, taboos, and space beyond time.”) is Sarito Carol Neiman’s (occasionally) regular column for The Rag Blog. This is part one of three. Read Part I … Continue reading →

United States and Chile:The impacts of two 9/11’s By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 9/11 in Chile On the bright and sunny morning of September 11, 1973, aircraft bombed targets in Valparaiso, Chile, and moved … Continue reading →

Are Corporations Patriotic – Or Just Greedy? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 Are corporations patriotic? It’s an intriguing question. It seems to be the Republican point of view that it is patriotic to support … Continue reading →

Idiots and Blinders By Nancy Miller Saunders / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 Are the developers of our intelligence operations idiot savants, brilliant in some areas and totally oblivious in others? (Think Dustin Hoffman in The Rain Man.) … Continue reading →

Are Corporations Patriotic – Or Just Greedy? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 Are corporations patriotic? It’s an intriguing question. It seems to be the Republican point of view that it is patriotic to support … Continue reading →

The Help, the blockbuster movie about the relationship between a young white woman and her black maids in 1963 Mississippi, has stirred up a bit of controversy, with some calling it “clichéd” and “condescending.” But writer Casey Hayden, who was … Continue reading →

Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule (section 2) The hidden history of Texas Part 3: The 1827-1836 years under Mexican rule By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2011 [This is the … Continue reading →