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BOOKS | ‘Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence’
This collection of essays, poetry, and art, much of it from the pages of CounterPunch, is provocative and enlightening. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | November 3, 2014 In 1771 in the North Carolina colony, Justice Martin Howard … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, CounterPunch, Killing Trayvons, Racial Violence, Racism, Rag Bloggers, Ron Jacobs, Stand Your Ground, Trayvon Martin
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BOOKS | Redefining urban renewal: Squatting
in Europe
‘The City is Ours’ examines both politically and socially the squatters’ movement in Europe over the past 40 years and provides a template for the movement’s future. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | October 15, 2014 [The City … Continue reading
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BOOKS | The pacification that never ends
Patrick Cockburn looks at the non-state forces in the region, who they are backed by, the motives of those backers. and the sectarian desires of the jihadis. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | August 19, 2014 [The Jihadis … Continue reading
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BOOKS | ‘Technocreep’ and how we are seduced by surveillance
Thomas Keenan has written a helpful description of the kinds of surveillance undertaken by corporations, governments, criminal enterprises, and just plain creeps every second of every day. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | August 5, 2014 [Technocreep: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Hacking, Internet, Internet Marketing, Privacy, Rag Bloggers, Ron Jacobs, Social Media, Surveillance, Technocreep, Technology, Thomas P. Keenan
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BOOKS | The evil that was Phoenix
Douglas Valentine’s ‘The Phoenix Program,’ gives lie to the ongoing attempts to turn the U.S. war in Vietnam into a noble effort. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2014 “Phoenix was far worse than the things … Continue reading
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BOOKS | A ‘Bohemian’ comic rhapsody
Paul Buhle and David Berger’s graphic history is a fascinating collection of personalities, their lives drawn in a manner equal to the stories they tell. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | June 5, 2014 [Bohemians: A Graphic History … Continue reading
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Tagged Bohemians, Books, Comics, David Berger, Graphic Historic, Paul Buhle, Rag Bloggers, Ron Jacobs
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BOOKS | Anand Gopal’s ‘No Good Men Among the Living’
Through the lives of three Afghans, Gopal creates a vivid history of the U.S. occupation and exposes the lies and misunderstandings the war is based on. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | April 20, 2014 [No Good Men … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan Occupation, Afghanistan War, Anand Gopal, Books, Nonfiction, Rag Bloggers, Ron Jacobs, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy
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BOOKS | On leave from imperial war
Plainspoken but eloquent, David Anselme’s ‘On Leave,’ is a novel about war; about the soldiers who fight them and the civilians who send them. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 22, 2014 [On Leave: A Novel by … Continue reading
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Tagged Algeria, Anti-War Fiction, Books, David Anselme, Fiction, French Imperialism, On Leave, Rag Bloggers, Ron Jacobs, Vietnam War
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The multi-pronged provocation of Crimea
After years of watching Washington and its NATO alliance entice and cajole traditionally Russian allies to join the western capitalist sphere, Moscow has recently begun fighting back. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 18, 2014 Recent events … Continue reading
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Moorcock’s ‘Pyat Quartet’ is story of a twentieth century knave
This epic work unfolds in a litany of prejudice, arrogance, and wrongheadedness, all told in a manner that is delightful to read. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | March 1, 2014 [Pyat Quartet by Michael Moorcock (2012-13: PM … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Historical Fiction, John Moorcock, Literature, Novelists, Pyat Quartet, Rag Bloggers, Ron Jacobs
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Betty Medsger’s ‘The Burglary’ is extraordinary tale of historic ‘B and E’
In 1971, eight anti-war activists broke into the FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, and removed confidential files about FBI surveillance against political organizations it considered anti-American. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | February 11, 2014 [The Burglary: … Continue reading
