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Yearly Archives: 2014
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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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Tagged Gabriel Kolko, Harry Targ, Imperialism, Joyce Kolko, Limits of Power, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Foreign Policy, World History
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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
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‘Exile’ is touching, thrilling, surprising three-hour Brit drama
Superb acting by award-winners Jim Broadbent, John Simm, and Olivia Colman, plus powerhouse writing, make this a must-see. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | June 23, 2014 [In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Jim Broadbent, John Simm, Olivia Colman, Psychological Thriller, Rag Bloggers
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Obama’s foreign policy bait and switch
Obama focused on defending his policies from the warhawks instead of the ‘pivot’ to Asia and maintenance of unilateral global hegemony. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | June 22, 2014 President Obama chose to ignore the most … Continue reading
METRO | Alice Embree : Grassroots Leadership takes on the prison profiteers
The group helped end immigrant family detention at T. Don Hutto private prison and is challenging Travis County Sheriff Hamilton’s deportation policies. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 22, 2014 AUSTIN — Grassroots Leadership says that Texas … Continue reading
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Are we seeing the ‘dismemberment’ of Iraq?
The other Hayden says Iraq is ‘dead’ and will be replaced by three ‘successor’ states. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | June 21, 2014 Former CIA director Michael Hayden says Iraq is dead, “will not be reconstituted,” and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Divided Iraq, Iraq War, Long War, Michael Hayden, Middle East, Rag Bloggers, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military, War on Terror
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METRO | Marlo Blue : Pacifica Radio on the brink
Money problems, political struggles, could lead to dismantling of iconic progressive radio network. By Marlo Blue | The Rag Blog | June 21, 2014 HOUSTON — Once again the radio network for peace, Pacifica Foundation Radio, is at war. Plagued … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, RagBlog
Tagged Community Radio, Duane Bradley, Houston, KPFT, Marlo Blue, Metro, Pacifica, Rag Bloggers
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METRO PODCAST | Thorne Dreyer : Visionary artist & storyteller Luis Guerra on Rag Radio
‘As the Huicholes of northern Mexico have demonstrated to me, art is (or should be) a way of praying, of making an offering to the gods.’ Interview by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | June 20, 2014 Our Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Artists, Chicano Activists, Interview, Latino USA, Luis Guerra, Metro, Podcast, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, Storytellers, Texas Writers, Thorne Dreyer
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BOOKS | El Paso poet Bobby Byrd soars
In ‘Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary,’ Bobby Byrd has taken ordinary things and people and turned them into something extraordinary. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | June 20, 2014 [Otherwise My Life Is Ordinary: Poems by Bobby Byrd … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby Byrd, Books, Cinco Puntos Press, el paso, Jonah Raskin, Poets, Rag Bloggers, Texas Writers
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