Category Archives: RagBlog

Why Libby’s Pardon Is a Slam DunkBy FRANK RICH 03/11/07 “New York Times” — — EVEN by Washington’s standards, few debates have been more fatuous or wasted more energy than the frenzied speculation over whether President Bush will or will … Continue reading →

Belafonte’s fires undimmed at 80By Stephen EvansBBC News, New York Harry Belafonte at 80 has a real story to tell. He remembers, for example, a barely known political hopeful turning up at his apartment on the Upper West Side of … Continue reading →

Global Realignment and the Decline of the SuperpowerBy MIKE WHITNEYMar 11, 2007, 16:54 The United States has been defeated in Iraq. That doesn’t mean that there’ll be a troop withdrawal anytime soon, but it does mean that there’s no chance … Continue reading →

[Updated] Schedule for the Encampment to Stop the War beginning Monday, March 12!By Press ReleaseMar 9, 2007, 08:37 Encampment to Stop the War Schedule for the Encampment to Stop the War*subject to change Many participating organizations are planning protests, teach-ins, … Continue reading →

Legal expert: President Bush may have ordered torture of terror suspectsDavid Edwards and Andrew BielakPublished: Saturday March 10, 2007 The US government began hearings on Friday to determine if 14 accused terrorists currently being held at Guantanamo Bay can be … Continue reading →

No doubt, the US will greet this offer with derision. It would be nice if, for once at least, the US could simply shut up and listen to what the Iranians have to say. Iran wants to brief U.N. on … Continue reading →

Too reminiscent of the treatment of US soldiers at Walter Reed … It seems to us that Tony Blair’s government has taken far too many lessons from this corrupt BushCo adminicorporation. We thought the Europeans were brighter than that. Military … Continue reading →

Although this microanalysis of the military situation is largely irrelevant to our purpose: we want the war to stop and we want that to happen yesterday. ‘Smart’ rebels outstrip USPaul Beaver in Fort Lauderdale and Peter BeaumontSunday March 11, 2007, … Continue reading →

I saw these folks play one time. It must’ve been in 1982 or ’83, at Cook County Saloon on the corner of 104th and Whyte Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta, and I was there dancing up a storm of two-steps with … Continue reading →

Let Us Understand One Another You And I O God! Pardon our living and our dead, the present and the absent, the young and the old, the males and the females. I am a Muslim I am Iraki. What America … Continue reading →

LABOR’S CHANCE – FINALLY – FOR A TRULY FREE CHOICEby Dick MeisterMarch 10, 2007 Few laws should be more important for the health of our economy and the well-being of ordinary Americans than the 69-year-old National Labor Relations Act, which … Continue reading →