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Working for a realistic left politics in Texas
To our friends outside Texas, we ask: Is it really so much better where you live? Where in mainstream politics in the United States is there much sanity? By Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood | The Rag Blog | February … Continue reading
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The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea
After years of watching Washington and its NATO alliance entice and cajole traditionally Russian allies to join the western capitalist sphere, Moscow has recently begun fighting back. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 18, 2014 Recent events … Continue reading
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Straight talk about Crimea
Was the referendum on Crimea’s independence legitimate? Does Catalonia have a right to secede from Spain? Scotland from Britain? Texas from Mexico? By Ed Felien | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2014 Crimea is a dangling appendix to the … Continue reading
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The Taliban are winning
This war never should have happened because it was always unwinnable, unaffordable, and therefore unpopular. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 12, 2014 The U.S. national security elite, mainstream media, and therefore most of the American people, … Continue reading
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‘Rising Up Angry’: Porch climbers, greasers, popcorn girl, and a family, 1968-’69
After my work in Uptown, I focused on bringing the movement, the revolution, to working class white kids, who had been overlooked by organizers. By Michael James | The Rag Blog | March 12, 2014 [In this series, Michael James … Continue reading
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Iguanas trek to Buddha Ball
Their ancient primitive bodies soak up the subtropical heat in desert cactus hills or along the humid grapefruit coast. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | March 11, 2014 They come by the tens of thousands, from near and … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, Baseball Fans, Buddha Ball, James McEnteer, Rag Bloggers, Ritual, Spring Training
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A People’s History of Egypt, Part 19, 1976-1989
U.S.-aligned Sadat regime answers labor uprising with mass arrests; Sadat assassinated; poverty worsens. By Bob Feldman | The Rag Blog | March 11, 2014 [With all the dramatic activity in Egypt, Bob Feldman’s Rag Blog “people’s history” series, “The Movement … Continue reading
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Dramatic Brit series ‘Chancer’ introduced me to dynamic leading man Clive Owen
Owen is a lovable con man who helps pals out of jams, plots against slimy villains, and romances lovely ladies in this fine 1990-’91 series. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | March 10, 2014 [In his weekly column, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, British Television, Chancer, Clive Owen, Criticism, Rag Bloggers, Vintage Television
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Is a new Cold War upon us?
From the residue of the old Soviet Union, a new nationalist, nuclear-armed, resource-rich Russia has risen to challenge Western claims of triumphalism. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Haven’t the Republicans, the neoconservatives, and the … Continue reading
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VIDEO | Austin’s ‘Underground Goes Overboard’ with Ayers and Dohrn
Bill and Bernardine lead an engaging and often very funny community conversation at The Rag Blog’s launch party — all captured on Bob Simmons’ video! Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn host an entertaining and provocative discussion at The Rag Blog‘s … Continue reading
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VERSE |’Texas gay marriage: Soon come?’
Texas Gay Marriage: Soon Come? By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Candidates claiming to support the Constitution need to get hip: Love’s sweet institution will soon be respected in fair distribution. Today’s headlines say … Continue reading
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Tagged Gay Marriage, LGBT, Mariann G. Wizard, Poetry, Rag Bloggers, Verse
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