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VERSE | TRUE HOMELAND
TRUE HOMELAND Why is this sweet world we live in so torn between chaos and Zen with extremes at either end like enemies and lifelong friends starvation and stock dividends a young child’s death yet love transcends are we really … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Donald Trump, Larry Piltz, Poetry, Rag Bloggers, Verse
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TELEVISION | ‘800 Words’ is a fun Aussie-Kiwi comedy-drama
The top-watched series features enjoyable characters & situations with an Aussie family trying to fit in to a New Zealand town. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | July 24, 2017 [In his Rag Blog column, Alan Waldman reviews … Continue reading
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Tagged 800 Words, Alan Waldman, Australian Television, Criticism, New Zealand Television, Rag Bloggers
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NATO: An obituary
Who will follow the capitalist class clown car into future military adventures to protect the profits of fossil energy tycoons? By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | July 23, 2017 PARIS — NATO died recently. Over the past … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, David P. Hamilton, Emmanuel Macron, NATO, Rag Bloggers, Trump Foreign Policy, U.S. Imperialism
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BOOKS | Tracy Kidder: ‘The Soul of a New Machine’ revisited
It’s a fine tale of a product development project that unfolds in secrecy, in a mild paranoia born of corporate competition. By Henry Mecredy | The Rag Blog | July 22, 2017 Hands, that the rod of empire might have … Continue reading
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The life and times of leftist journalist
Jack A. Smith (1934-2017)
Including a personal memoir from the former Guardian editor, plus the Rag Radio interview. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 20, 2017 Below, see “Jack A. Smith: My life and times at The Guardian,” originally published by … Continue reading
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Tagged American Left, Deaths, Hudson Valley Newsletter, Jack A. Smith, Leftist Journalists, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, The Guardian, Thorne Dreyer
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Emmanuel Macron, ‘centrist’ revolutionary
He combined social liberalism — covering all the identity politics bases — with neoliberal economics. By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | June 21, 2017 PARIS — Emmanuel Macron has totally changed the landscape of French politics. Previously, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 French Elections, David P. Hamilton, Emmanuel Macron, French Politics, Rag Bloggers
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Psychohistory in the Age of Trump
Comparisons between Nazi Germany and Trump´s U.S.-in-process abound these days. By Chellis Glendinning | The Rag Blog | June 21, 2017 CHUQUISACA, Bolivia — As befits the times, I have been studying Nikolaus Wachsmann´s KL: A History of the Nazi … Continue reading
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Tagged Chellis Glendinning, Donald Trump, Fascism, Nazi Death Camps, Nazi Germany, Psychohistory, Psychology, Rag Bloggers, Trump Presidency
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American culture: Appropriated, revised,
and invented
There is virtually no part of our culture that is not borrowed from somewhere else. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 20, 2017 To paraphrase something the musicologist Charles Seeger once said (as reported by his … Continue reading
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Tagged American Culture, Cultural Appropriation, Lamar W. Hankins, Rag Bloggers
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The emerging split within the U.S.
Democratic Party
The Perez wing, which is not hostile to Bernie Sanders, seems ready to discuss class oppression. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | June 20, 2017 The Hill, which is widely read by Washington politicians and is rather centrist-liberal … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schulz, Democratic Party, DNC, Hillary Clinton, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Tom Perez
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Chained together in Hell: Manuel Noriega and George H.W. Bush
No one was blinder to the criminality of Noriega, who was on the CIA payroll, than George Herbert Walker Bush. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | June 19, 2017 QUITO, Ecuador — Manuel Noriega, former president of Panama, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, CIA, George H. W. Bush, James McEnteer, Latin American History, Manuel Noriega, Rag Bloggers
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The downside to impeaching Trump
Rogue’s Gallery: We should all look at the presidential bullpen in constitutional order. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | June 18, 2017 The investigations are scattered among the House, the Senate, and now a special prosecutor, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Rag Bloggers, Russia Investigation, Steve Russell, Trump Cabinet, Trump Impeachment, Trump Presidency
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METRO | San Marcos’s limited minimum wage law has gotten little attention
The law, in force since last November, applies only to businesses seeking economic incentives. By Richard Croxdale | The Rag Blog | June 12, 2017 SAN MARCOS, Texas — $15 an hour x 40 hours a week = $600 a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fight for $15, Living Wage, Metro, Minimum Wage, Rag Bloggers, Richard Croxdale, San Marcos
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