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Yearly Archives: 2011
Bruce Melton : Welcome to Climate Change in Texas
Tree Kill in Central Texas, drought of 2011. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Drought and wildfires:Welcome to climate change in Texas By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 29, 2011 Environmental researcher and climate change activist … Continue reading
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Rebecca Solnit : Occupy Your Heart
Occupy your heart:Compassion is our new currency Occupy arrived and, as if swept by some strange pandemic, a contagious virus of truth-telling, everyone was suddenly obliged to call things by their real names and talk about actual problems. By Rebecca … Continue reading
Vote Obama – if you want a centrist Republican for US president Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shambles By Glenn Greenwald / The Guardian / December 28, 2011 American … Continue reading
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Bob Feldman : Reconstruction in Texas/2
African-Americans voting in 1867. Image from the Texas Liberal.The hidden history of Texas Part VII: Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1876/2 By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / December 26, 2011 [This is the second section of Part 7 of Bob … Continue reading
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Lamar W. Hankins : What Have We Learned From the Iraq War?
President Obama shown speaking to troops at Fort Bragg, N.C. Photo by Gerry Broome / AP.Lessons we should have learned from the Iraq War After all the phony reasons for war in Iraq were found wanting, Bush and his neoconservative … Continue reading
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Tagged George W. Bush, Imperialism, Iraq War, Lamar W. Hankins, Military, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Ulysses : The Hip Hop Revolution of the Arab Spring
El Général performing at the first meeting of Tunisia’s main PDP opposition party on Jan. 29, 2011 in Tunis. Photo by Fethi Belaid / AFP / Getty.The hip hop revolutionof the Arab Spring By Ulysses / openDemocracy / December 28, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, Arabic Hip Hop, Middle East, Music Video, Rappers, Revolutionary Movements
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CARTOON / Charlie Loving : Rick Perry on Foreign Oil!
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Harry Targ : Korea and the U.S. Policy of Perpetual War
“War Street,” by Sue Coe / Revista Amauta.Let’s be frank:The United States has beenin perpetual war With the onset of the Korean War, the politics of fear converged with the politics of empire. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Harry Targ, Imperialism, Kim Jong Il, Korean War, North Korea, U.S. Foreign Policy
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As the troops return from Iraq, Rev. Jim Rigby, human rights activist and pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, reflects on the Christmas message and a “reframed” Christmas story that he wrote for a local newspaper during … Continue reading
Jim Rigby : Christmas Cancelled as Security Measure!
Three wise men arrested for illegal possession of “frankincense” and “myrrh.” Art from Dare to Create.Christmas is no time totalk about war and peace When the angels sang, ‘peace on earth good will to all,’ they were expressing the song … Continue reading
Lamar W. Hankins : A Humanist Looks at Christmas
Orator and humanist Robert G. Ingersoll. Image from the Council for Secular Humanism.Robert Green Ingersoll:A humanist looks at Christmas By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | December 22, 2011 Robert Green Ingersoll is one of the least known … Continue reading
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