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Neda and the Kent State 4 : Heartbreaking Then and Now
(Above) Neda Agha-Soltan, 27, who bled to death on the streets of Tehran, Saturday, June 20, 2009. Still shot from video taken with cell phone and posted to YouTube. (Below) Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the dead … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Iranian Elections, Kent State, Neda, Social Protest
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How to Rig an Election : See Florida, Ohio and Iran
Good question! Demonstrator at June 17, 2009, Austin rally protesting the Iranian elections. Photo by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.OOPS! We rigged the Iran/Florida-Ohio vote count AGAIN!! The chief difference between Iran 2009 and Ohio 2004 — and Florida … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Election Fraud, Iranian Elections, Mousavi
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Reaping What We Sow : Iran and Stolen Elections
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a social democrat, was overthrown by the CIA. Here Mossadegh, with hat, is shown leaving the U.S. Supreme Court building on Nov. 5, 1951. Photo from the Truman Library. After a half-century of dictatorship under … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky : The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
Photo from Foreign Policy.The torture memos and historical amnesia Unexceptional Americans: Why we can’t see the trees or the forest By Noam Chomsky / May 19, 2009 The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Human Rights, Obama Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Torture, War Crimes
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Has Liberalism ‘Jumped the Shark?’
Image from The Lockeroom. Just like the right-wing would like to force their religion on all Americans ‘for their own good,’ many liberals would like to pass ‘Nanny State’ laws for the good of all Americans. By Ted McLaughlin / … Continue reading
Obama’s First 100 Days : Now a Piggy Pandemic?
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. The implications of a global flu pandemic superimposed upon the USA at this point in our history are staggering. By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / April 26, 2009 As President … Continue reading
Fighting the Unions : Card Check, FDR, and Right-Wing History
Anti-union cartoon from the National Association of Manufacturers Collection, Hagley Museum & Library, published in Z Magazine. The anti-labor campaign is a component of the broader strategy by the Republican Party and frenetic conservative commentators to paint a picture in … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, FDR, Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Obama Administration, Right Wing
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‘Justice in the Coalfields’ : The Pittston Strike, April 5, 1989
Trailer: ‘Justice in the Coalfields’ by Anne Lewis Anne Lewis’ provocative and skillfully produced documentary of the strike, Justice in the Coalfields, has had a profoundly formative influence not only on my understanding of the struggle, but larger issues of … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anne Lewis, Coal Mining, Labor Unions, Social Movements, Strikes, West Virginia
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1933 / 2009 : Change, and the Repetition of History
‘Misery and insecurity exist to a degree unprecedented in our national life. And spiritually the American people have been debauched by the materialism which made dollar-chasing the accepted way of life and accumulation of riches the goal of earthly existence.’ … Continue reading
Death : ‘William Zanzinger Killed Poor Hattie Carroll’
William D. Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six months in 1963 in the death of Hattie Carroll. [Dylan dropped the “t” in “Zantzinger.”] Photo from Baltimore Sun via NYT.W. D. Zantzinger, subject of Dylan song, dies at … Continue reading
Bigotry Still Rules : The Special Suffering of Gay Americans
Civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin was fired from the Friendship for Reconciliation, a pacifist group, for being gay. The way anti-gay bigotry works is that a great deal of the violence and suffering is conducted away from the public eye. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bigotry, Black History, Civil Rights Movement, Gay Liberation, Gay Marriage, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Racism
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