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METRO EVENT | Alice Embree : Defending Palestinian rights
Interfaith group protests Israel’s ongoing ‘reign of terror’ in the West Bank and Gaza and the murder of Palestinian civilians. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2014 Event: Protest against Israeli Reign of Terror in Gaza … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Counterinsurgency architect Kilcullen on the ‘coming age of the urban guerrilla’
David Kilcullen leaves Iraq and Afghanistan behind to concentrate on how to keep malignant masses of desperate people at bay in a coming urban apocalypse. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2014 [Out of the Mountains: … Continue reading
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BOOKS | The evil that was Phoenix
Douglas Valentine’s ‘The Phoenix Program,’ gives lie to the ongoing attempts to turn the U.S. war in Vietnam into a noble effort. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2014 “Phoenix was far worse than the things … Continue reading
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Brit TV critics call ‘Line of Duty’ the best cop show ever, and for good reason
The BBC’s riveting, best-performing drama in a decade, starring Lennie James, is an intelligent, surprising look at police corruption. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | July 6, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, BBC Productions, British Television, Criticism, Jed Mercurio, Lennie James, Line of Duty, Rag Bloggers
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SPECIAL REPORT | The Drug War: ‘Against the Wind,’ Part 1
Marijuana prohibition is a house of straw. During the past month, the winds of change have started to rip that house apart and now the DEA may be reevaluating cannabis’ status as a ‘dangerous drug.’ By Mariann G. Wizard | … Continue reading
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Stopping an American jihad
It comes down to what Colin Powell used to call ‘the Pottery Barn theory.’ We will own what we break and we don’t want to own the Sunni and Shi’a argument. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | July … Continue reading
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Tagged Iraq, ISIS, Islamic Caliphate, Kurdistan, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Rag Bloggers, Steve Russell, Sunni-Shi'a Conflict, Syria
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FILM | ‘Night Moves’ is about ecoterrorists gone awry
It’s hard to imagine that anyone would decide to make a bomb and blow up a dam after watching ‘Night Moves.’ By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 1, 2014 Kelly Reichardt’s 2013 movie, Night Moves — now … Continue reading
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Tagged Dakota Fanning, Ecoterrorism, Film, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonah Raskin, Kelly Reichardt, Night Moves, Rag Bloggers
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PODCAST | Suzanna Danuta Walters discusses the ‘Sabotaging of Gay Equality’
The author of the provocative cultural critique, ‘The Tolerance Trap,’ joins us in a lively and revealing discussion on Rag Radio. Interview by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | June 30, 2014 Our Rag Radio podcast features Suzanna Danuta … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Cultural Critics, Gay Liberation, Interview, LGBT, Podcast, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, Sexuality, Suzanna Danuta Walters, The Tolerance Trap, Thorne Dreyer
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The Democrats’ delusions and a strategy for change
A central goal of the left in the U.S. should be to create an independent electoral base, a voice from which the left can speak directly to the mainstream. By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | June 30, … Continue reading
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The intellectual impacts of historians Joyce and Gabriel Kolko
The ‘Limits of Power’ demonstrated that the United States was committed to expanding its capitalist empire across the globe. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | June 29, 2014 I have been teaching courses on United States foreign policy … Continue reading
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People’s History of Egypt, Epilogue/Update, Section 2, November 2013-April 2014
Despite the brutal tactics of the counterrevolutionary Sisi military regime, a struggle for political, economic, and cultural democracy continues in Egypt. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | June 25, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob … Continue reading
