Category Archives: RagBlog

Democracy is ill served by its self-appointed guardiansBy Simon Jenkins Our sonorous moralising lies behind so much bloodshed in the past 50 years. A sense of history surely counsels humility 05/03/08 “The Guardian” — – This week’s Russian elections were … Continue reading →

Tomgram: Iraq, 2003-2008, Two Recipes for Disaster The Commander-in-Chef Cooks Up a Storm: Recipes for Disaster in IraqBy Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan In the week that oil prices once again crested above $100 a barrel and more Americans than … Continue reading →

Looking Past Super Tuesday David Hamilton / The Rag Blog Analysis of the Democratic presidential race. From a publicity perspective, Tuesday was a great day for Hillary Clinton. However, from the perspective of the delegate count, it was very nearly … Continue reading →

Million Musicians March, March 17, 2007, Austin, Texas MUSICIANS, EVERYONE: help amplify the call for peace from Austin, Texas! Saturday, March 15th, 2008. Noon Rally at State Capitol 1 pm — March to City Hall 1:30-4:00 Concert & Speakers Come … Continue reading →

Blackwater trainee Gregory Collier screams for team members to evacuate during a drill. I have edited the introductory part of this lengthy article. The link for the complete article is at the end. It was first posted on September 26, … Continue reading →

Half the City’s Poor Now Permanently Displaced: The Cleansing of New OrleansBy BILL QUIGLEY Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages … Continue reading →

This comes from a remarkable album called Needle in the Groove: Women Singing for Social Change. It is an album conceived and created in the West Bank, Palestine from the talents of many musically professional women and Palestinian members of … Continue reading →

CIA Rendition Flight Paths Exclusive: I Was Kidnapped by the CIABy Peter Bergen, MotherJones, March/April 2008 Issue Inside the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program ­and the bungled abduction of would-be terrorists For hours, the words come pouring out of Abu Omar … Continue reading →

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former … Continue reading →

Memoir by Craig Rosebraugh, Earth Liberation Front. Earth Liberation Front Believed Responsible For Arson At Multimillion-Dollar Seattle HomesBy Elizabeth M. Gillespie / March 3, 2008 WOODINVILLE, Wash. — Three seven-figure dream homes went up in flames early Monday in a … Continue reading →

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My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables)By JACK HEDIN, Published: March 1, 2008Rushford, Minn. IF you’ve stood in line at a farmers’ market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a … Continue reading →