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Michael James : Hope Springs Eternal
Comiskey Park, Chicago, 1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James’ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul:Hope springs eternal onopening day at Comiskey Park By Michael James | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Baseball, Chicago, Comiskey Park, Memoir, Michael James, Pictures from the Long Haul, White Sox
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Michael James : Moving Right Along
Rapid rolling wheels at U.S. Track and Field Championships, Haywood Field, Eugene, Oregon, 1993. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James’ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul: Rapid rolling wheels and the … Continue reading
Ron Jacobs : Bob Dylan’s Biography of American Racism
Bob Dylan visits Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in prison, 1975. Image from Tumblr. Bob Dylan’s biography of American racism “Sometimes I think this whole world / is one big prison yard / Some of us are prisoners / and some of … Continue reading
Jim Turpin : Is the Imperial Presidency the ‘New Normal’?
The Imperial Obama? Image from The Express Tribune. The ‘new normal’? The Imperial Presidency “Same as it ever was…” — Talking Heads (“Once in a Lifetime”) By Jim Turpin | The Rag Blog | February 27, 2013 First of a … Continue reading
Harry Targ : Celebrate the ‘Historical Revisionists’ / 2
Paul Sweezy and Paul Baran, shown photographed in Cuba, wrote about a new era of monopoly capitalism. Image from Fotopages. Celebrate the ‘Historical Revisionists’ / 2 Revisionists argued that while security, ideologies, personalities of elites, and even human nature had … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Capitalism, Economists, Harry Targ, Historical Revisionists, U.S. Foreign Policy
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Marjorie Heins’ ‘Priests of Our Democracy’
Priests of Our Democracy:Marjorie Heins on Academic Freedom and the Red Scare of the ’50s “There were only a few exceptions to university collaboration in the Cold War heresy hunt.” — Marjorie Heins By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
Mike Davis : Christopher Dorner and the Exterminating Angels
“Exterminating angel” overlooking a Gothic cemetery in Comillas, Cantabria. Image from Nitehawk Hatched. Exterminating angels If Dorner had been standing on a skyscraper ledge or holding Rupert Murdoch hostage, the world might have paid more attention to the injustices that … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American History, American History, Charles Dorner, Los Angeles Police, Mass Murder, Mike Davis, Mike Ellis, Racism
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : The Panthers and ‘Black Against Empire’
Black Against Empire:The legacy of the Black Panther Party “We didn’t preach to the people, we worked with them.” — Former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | February 12, 2013 [Black against Empire: … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American History, American History, Black Panthers, Books, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ron Jacobs
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Harry Targ : Celebrate the ‘Historical Revisionists’ / 1
Historian William Appleman Wiliams circa 1986. Image from Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections / Daily Barameter / The Nation.Celebrate the ‘Historical Revisionists’ / 1 William Appleman Williams’ classic text, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, broke new ground in the … Continue reading
Lamar W. Hankins : Drone Assassinations and Our Misguided Foreign Policy
Political cartoon from AFP / Getty Images.Drone assassinations:The latest misguided U.S. foreign policy The American belief in technology as our savior, even in carrying out assassinations, knows no bounds. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | February 11, … Continue reading
Thom Hartmann : The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
Slave patrols, under the direction of commissioned militia officers, enforced discipline on slaves in the antebellum South. Image from America’s Black Holocaust Museum.The Second Amendment wasratified to preserve slavery Every Southerner of the era knew the simple answer: Well-regulated militias … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Gun Control, Racism, Second Amendment, Slavery, Thom Hartmann
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Harry Targ : Dr. King and the Civil Rights-Labor Alliance
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy lead a march by sanitation workers in Memphis, March 28, 1968. Photo by Sam Melhorn / AP.Martin Luther King and the civil rights and labor alliance King knew that black … Continue reading
