Category Archives: RagBlog

It’s the OilBy Jim Holt 10/20/07 “London Review Of Books” — — Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of … Continue reading →

Turks and Kurds Protest Invasion Policyby Joel Wendland, October 21, 2007 Protests erupted this past week in Turkey and Iraq over Turkey’s decision to authorize an invasion of Iraq in order to fight Kurdish separatists. In addition to the Kurdish … Continue reading →

Ali Larijani Resignsby Farideh Farhi, Saturday, October 20, 2007 Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, has resigned. This is a big deal! The fact that Larijani had threatened to resign several … Continue reading →

Sally and I made some planning mistakes preparing for this trip to Europe. One was coming to Rome in October, which it turns out is high season here. The streets of Rome may be filled with rubble, but you can … Continue reading →

Housing Flameout: California falls into the seaBy Mike Whitney 10/20/07 “ICH ” — — Is it really fair to blame one man for destroying the US economy? Probably not. But Alan Greenspan is still tops on our list. After all, … Continue reading →

Shared Values: Teacher Each ad ended with a tag line saying it was sponsored by the “Council of American Muslims for Understanding” (an organization created by the U.S. State Department). A Case Study in the Limits of Propaganda: Shared Values … Continue reading →

The FBI’s War on Black Liberation: COINTELPRO and the PanthersBy RON JACOBS The history of relations between the Black liberation movement and law enforcement has always been adversarial, at its best. At its worst, it is a history of murder, … Continue reading →

Farmers sue DEA for right to grow industrial hempBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN (CNN) — The feds call industrial hemp a controlled substance — the same as pot, heroin, LSD — but advocates say a sober analysis reveals a harmless, … Continue reading →

Imagine Peace—A Ray of Light in Dark Timesby Amy GoodmanOctober 20, 2007, TruthDig.com John Lennon would have turned 67 years old last week had he not been murdered in 1980, at the age of 40, by a mentally disturbed fan. … Continue reading →

Envoy urges UN to quit Quartet over lack of regard for human rightsBy Reuters, Oct 16, 2007, 14:36 The United Nations should pull out of the Quartet of Middle East mediators unless the group starts taking Palestinian human rights seriously, … Continue reading →

Read this entire piece at Tomdispatch.com for all the links and references. Bush’s Pentagon Papers: The Urge to ConfessBy Tom Engelhardt They can’t help themselves. They want to confess. How else to explain the torture memorandums that continue to flow … Continue reading →

But I suppose we knew that from the Larry Craig incident (among others) …. Terrorism Awareness IndeedBy Rick Perlstein on October 19, 2007 – 4:38pm. I’m very excited and pleased to introduce today’s guest poster, Danny Postel, who comes to … Continue reading →