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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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Antonin Scalia was a Federalist, sort of,
and therefore would not approve of President Obama making a lame duck appointment to replace him, right? Wrong. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2016 Once upon a time, in the late 20th and early 21st … Continue reading
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We must respond to 21st century violence with radical structural change based on community
In addressing the reality of killing in this century, history and context become profoundly important. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | December 15, 2015 “When we humans see instances of violence, we are often quick to respond, sometimes … Continue reading
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Violence, racism, and fundamentally changing
the United States
My specific proposal is to include explicit curriculum in our schools to teach the truth of our past. Seventy-seven years ago, civil rights activist and poet Langston Hughes wrote his chilling poem “Kids Who Die” to illuminate the horrors of … Continue reading
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Community between the anvil and the hammer
Police violence against African-American communities continues to be a commonplace feature of national life and must be seriously addressed. By Jay D. Jurie | The Rag Blog | July 7, 2015 The Black Panthers: Early proponents of Black Lives Matter … Continue reading
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Should we make more war? Where? How?
Obama’s foreign policy reflects the contradictory approaches of U.S. leadership since the country’s emergence as a superpower. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | February 17, 2015 Both unity and contradiction are reflected in the history of United States … Continue reading
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LITERATURE | Wild things
Jonah Raskin’s ‘A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature’ is a fresh look at American letters from the bottom up. By James Retherford | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2015 Like a true nature’s child We were born … Continue reading
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Who is Eric Fair and what did he do?
With all our folk tales about our innate goodness and freedom-loving ways, the Real America has always tortured when it wished to do so. By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | February 2, 2015 Before we Americans become bored … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Ghraib, American History, American Society, CIA, Enhanced Interrogation, Eric Fair, Murray Polner, Rag Bloggers, Torture
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The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete
Our electoral apparatus is thoroughly compromised by oceans of dirty money, Jim Crow registration traps, rigged electronic voting, gerrymandering… By Harvey Wasserman | The Rag Blog | November 5, 2014 The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete. The Republicans now … Continue reading
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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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From Vietnam to Iraq, lessons never learned
We cannot trust the ‘best and brightest’ to have the answers any more than students trusted their pedigreed elders 50 years ago. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | September 17, 2014 [The following remarks, provided to The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Ann Arbor, Iraq War, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military, Vietnam War
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Obama and the myth that ‘war works’
Twentieth century narratives of international relations are no longer relevant (if they ever were). By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | September 16, 2014 President Barack Obama spoke to the nation Wednesday night, September 10, about the need to … Continue reading
