Category Archives: RagBlog

I want to alert you all to the Austin Peace Action Thursday, July 27th. See below. Also, Code Pink Austin is participating in a rolling fast through September 21 (Bring the Troops Home Fast) with fasters who have volunteered for … Continue reading →

I wanted to update you on the lawsuit I have filed against George W. Bush and members of his administration, referred to in legal parlance as Conyers v. Bush. You are likely familiar with a number of steps I have … Continue reading →

Having been associated with a viewpoint called internationalism, allow me to describe a recent event in which Sally and I participated, the International Folk Art Market, sponsored by the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. It just completed … Continue reading →

We are still working on the project for Fragile Families in Texas. I have been talking it up with folks here and there is interest. The International Center might be the place to do this? One thing that keeps coming … Continue reading →

This is the last of this series. This is where the ‘hope’ part of the message becomes most apparent. Richard Jehn I am finding these extended, thoughtful posts really interesting. The save-the-world topic is a set of arguments that improves … Continue reading →

This is the next-to-last part of the conversation. I will wind it up tomorrow sometime. My heartfelt gratitude and admiration to the participants in this chat who allowed it to be posted here. Richard Jehn — As far as I … Continue reading →

This is the continuation of the conversation from September and October 2005. There will be at least one more part to it. Again, I express my appreciation to those whose words are posted here. Richard Jehn I know very little … Continue reading →

This is a conversation that took place between members in September and October 2005. It was the same time that Alice wrote her note about blogging all this stuff, because the quality of the writing was so good. Thanks to … Continue reading →

Here follows a letter from a reader who has a friend at the American University in Beirut, so far — untouched. Notice, Americans have been told they will have to pay for these helicopter rides to Cyprus. Charlie Loving Update … Continue reading →

A young John Kerry, testifying for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, was famously asked “how” we could get out of Vietnam. “Ships and planes, Senator, ships and planes.” We now know that LBJ also desperately wanted out of Vietnam, but … Continue reading →

I am writing now from a cafe, in West Beirut’s Hamra district. It is filled with people who are trying to escape the pull of 24 hour news reporting. Like me. The electricity has been cut off for awhile now, … Continue reading →

by Bill Meacham I have been reading works by radical Christian theologians John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg, and recently attended a conference featuring them both. Crossan in particular is a very rigorous historian who uses textual analytics, history, sociology … Continue reading →