Category Archives: RagBlog

How Did We Get Into This Mess?by George Monbiot, August 29, 2007, Guardian For the first time, the United Kingdom’s consumer debt now exceeds our gross national product: a new report shows that we owe £1.35 trillion(1). Inspectors in the … Continue reading →

Who Won’t Stand Up for Kenneth Foster? Charles Rangel, For OneBy BEN DAVIS Barring a miracle–and miracles are in short order on Texas’ death row–Kenneth Foster is likely to die Thursday. The battle around his case has been a heroic … Continue reading →

Will Bush Take Everything Down With Him? More Shame, More SorrowBy PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS In the administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Party has achieved the greatest combination of idiocy and evil in human history. The Republicans have bogged … Continue reading →

The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet: The GOP’s Outed All-StarsBy DAVID ROSEN One more Republican conservative was outed this week for his illicit sexual conduct. “Roll Call,” the newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, broke the story … Continue reading →

We find it generally nonconstructive to report on Junior, but this reality he’s in is scaring us. The surge is working, Iran is a menace, a Mid-East nuclear arms race … Where does he live? Bush sells Iraq troop-surge policy, … Continue reading →

When It Comes to Guns, We’re No. 1By Laura MacInnis,ReutersPosted: 2007-08-29 07:12:06 GENEVA (Aug. 28) – The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on … Continue reading →

Occupation 101Posted by Layla Anwar Compared to this occupation, even colonialism looks like a nice ride. At least, colonialism still managed to build a road or two, a couple of schools and maybe a health dispensary. But tell me, what … Continue reading →

US surge sees 600,000 more Iraqis abandon homeBy Leonard Doyle, Saturday, August 25, 2007 The scale of the human disaster in the Iraq war has become clearer from statistics collected by two humanitarian groups that reveal the number of Iraqis … Continue reading →

Deal will bring reforms to immigrant detention site: The detention of children in Central Texas would be ‘less penal’By SUSAN CARROLL, Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Attorneys for immigrant children at a Central Texas detention center have reached a settlement agreement … Continue reading →

YOU ARE GETTING SCREWED …. Recent tax data shows widening gap between rich and poor in USBy Tom Carter, Aug 27, 2007, 03:35 The latest Statistics of Income (SOI) released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) this month point to … Continue reading →

Craig’s arrest is no surpriseby Kevin Naff, Washington Blade Editor The news that U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges stemming from an investigation into sexual activity at a men’s restroom in the Minneapolis airport will … Continue reading →

Allawi’s Muscle: The CIA-Controlled Iraqi National Intelligence ServiceBy Spencer Ackerman – August 24, 2007, 2:23 PM Alleged billion dollar thief Hazem Shaalan isn’t Ayad Allawi’s only infamous friend. Allawi is also a close ally of the head of Iraq’s largest … Continue reading →