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FILM | Exciting documentary about Liberation News Service premieres January 11
‘Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service’ includes interviews with Austin-based underground veterans. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | January 9, 2021 NOTE: This article was updated at 10:20 a.m. (CT), January 12. We had originally … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary Film, Dorothy Dickie, Liberation News Service, LNS, Rag Radio, Rhode Island PBS, Under the Ground
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POLITICAL HISTORY | Ranking Donald Trump
among the one and done
Donald John Trump had his papers graded and the voters failed him as decisively as he failed them. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 5, 2021 Those of us who consider history to be recreational reading started … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Martha Ture’s ‘Joe Walker’ should be a screenplay
Her prose is too visual to rest quietly on library shelves. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 3, 2021 [Joe Walker, by Martha Ture. (Lulu Press 2007); paperback; 370 pages; $23.95 on Amazon.com.] SUN CITY, Texas — … Continue reading
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POLITICAL CARTOON | A Covid Christmas
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Tagged A Covid Christmas, Donald Trump, Grim Reaper, Joshua Brown, Political Cartoon
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ENVIRONMENT | Appreciating nature as a political act
By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | December 14, 2020 ATHOL, Massachusetts — Do you consider yourself an environmentalist? Dictionary.com has this definition: “A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.” That definition suits … Continue reading
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OPINION | Top 12 heroes of 2020
In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |December 9, 2020 [Also see Jonah Raskin’s “Top 11 criminals of 2020” on The Rag Blog.] 2020 has been the year of the collective, often unheralded, … Continue reading
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MIXED MEDIA | The not so funny comics of indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | December 5, 2020 The Great Pen Caper: In 2013 Ken Paxton picked up a $1,000 Montblanc pen from a Collin County metal detector tray. Fifteen months later, after being identified by a … Continue reading
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ANALYSIS | Post-election reckoning: New hypotheses for the road ahead
By Carl Davidson and Bill Fletcher, Jr. | The Rag Blog |December 1, 2020 Carl Davidson and Bill Fletcher, Jr. are Thorne Dreyer‘s guests on Rag Radio, KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin and streamed at KOOP.org, Friday, December 4, 2-3 p.m. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 Elections, Bill Fletcher Jr., Carl Davidson, Election Analysis, Leftist Analysis, Rag Bloggers
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OPINION | Top 11 criminals of 2020
In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |November 26, 2020 [Also see Jonah Raskin’s”Top 12 heroes of 2020″ on The Rag Blog.] If you don’t like this list, make up one of your … Continue reading
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POLITICAL CARTOON | Grand Old Party!
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Tagged James Retherford, Political Cartoon, Rag Bloggers, Republican Party
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REPORT | Houston’s historic underground newspaper…
…on the really small screen. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | November 25, 2020 Space City News hit the streets of Houston in June 1969, but got a name change when a UFO group informed the paper they … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, New Journalism Project, Rag Bloggers, Space City News, Space City!
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