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Yearly Archives: 2016
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Police attack striking teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico
Eight people were killed in Nochistlán and other parts of Oaxaca in protest-related incidents Sunday. By Johnny Hazard | The Rag Blog | June 21, 2016 MEXICO CITY — Armed federal police attacked striking teachers in Nochistlán, Oaxaca, Sunday, June … Continue reading
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Tagged Educational Reform, Johnny Hazard, Mexican Protests, Mexican Teachers Strike, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Rag Bloggers
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METRO | Is TxDOT near the end of the road?
I compare TxDOT to a drunk who has run up a big bar tab and, knowing that he can’t pay, orders another round and prays for a miracle. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | June 16, 2016 “…income … Continue reading
Posted in Metro, RagBlog
Tagged Fossil Fuels, Metro, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Texas Politics, Transportation, Transportation Politics, TXDot
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How Christians misunderstand atheists
I have never met an atheist who did not accept the scientific method, which explains why the god hypothesis fails for these people. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 14, 2016 Journalist and author Christopher Hitchens … Continue reading
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TELEVISION | Excellent Brit cop series ‘Above Suspicion’ is gripping, intelligent viewing
Craggy vet Ciarán Hinds and perky young Kelly Reilley lead a squad of detectives in queen of crime Lynda La Plante’s latest white-knuckle thriller. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | June 12, 2016 [In his Rag Blog column, … Continue reading
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Tagged Above Suspicion, Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Police Procedural, Rag Bloggers
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Look ma, no wheels: Weak end at Bernie’s
Political bites and random nibbles. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | June 8, 2016 On September 11, 2001, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, et. al., were either negligent about or complicit in the terrorist attacks … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Elections, James McEnteer, Presidential Politics, Rag Bloggers
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Protestas contra el nuevo aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México
El gobierno federal invade terrenos comunales. Vestigios arqueológicos en riesgo. Por Johnny Hazard | The Rag Blog | 8 de junio, 2016 Lea en inglés un artículo anterior de este autor: “Crisis de ozono en la zona metropolitana de la … Continue reading
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Tagged Cerro de Tepetzinco, Cerro Huatepec, Ciudad de México, Español, Ignacio del Valle, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Johnny Hazard, Museo del Mamut, Nexquipayac, Nuevos aeropuertos, Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra-Atenco, silla de Nezahualcóyotl, Tocuila, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
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METRO | Muhammad Ali, the Astrodome,
and me
We had ringside seats on the second row, and were splattered all night with blood, sweat, and snot! By Sunshine Williams | The Rag Blog | June 7, 2016 HOUSTON — News of Muhammad Ali’s death brought back memories from … Continue reading
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Tagged Astrodome, Astroworld, Boxing, Houston History, Metro, Muhammad Ali, Rag Bloggers, Sports, Sunshine Williams
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SPORT | ‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The radical reverberations of Muhammad Ali
He redefined what it meant to be tough and collectivized the very idea of courage. By Dave Zirin | The Rag Blog | June 5, 2016 The reverberations. Not the rumbles, the reverberations. The death of Muhammad Ali will undoubtedly … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Black Power, Boxers, Dave Zirin, Deaths, Draft Resistance, Heavyweight Champions, Muhammad Ali, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sports, Vietnam War
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Out There: My first dispatch from Belize
I’m starting to get a glimmer of the ‘colonial fatalism’ that decrees, ‘That’s just how things are.’ By Mariann Wizard Vasquez* | The Rag Blog | May 28, 2016 SAN IGNACIO TOWN, Cayo, Belize, C.A. — It’s the smallest things … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Charles Glass’s ‘Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe’
As civil wars go, this one is especially unforgiving and brutal, made worse by bitter historic ethnic, religious, and tribal rivalries and proxy wars. By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | May 25, 2016 [Syria Burning: A Short History … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Charles Glass, Middle East History, Murray Polner, Rag Bloggers, Syria, Syria Burning, Syrian Civil War
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