Tag Archives: American History

Don Swift : Paranoid Politics and the Legitimacy Crisis

Graphic from Framing the Dialogue. Inset images below from NeoRepublica and Pushed to the Left.Paranoid politics:How the legitimacy crisis helps the Republicans The growing lack of confidence in government and democracy occurred most with white, blue-collar people. The extent to … Continue reading

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Jack A. Smith : America’s Conservative Era

Image from Research Digest.The election reflectsAmerica’s conservative era As the Republicans moved ever further to the right… so too did the Democrats. This leaves the U.S. as the world’s only rich capitalist state without a mass party left of center … Continue reading

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FILM / William Michael Hanks : ‘Anne Braden: Southern Patriot’

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot:A film by Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering By William Michael Hanks | The Rag Blog | July 14, 2012 “The meaning of life is in that struggle which human beings have always been able to do … Continue reading

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Harry Targ : Mitch Daniels, Educator!

All decked out: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels models his new Purdue leather jacket after being named the school’s next president in West Lafayette, Indiana., Thursday, June 21, 2012. Photo by Michael Conroy / AP.Purdue names Mitch Daniels president: The crisis … Continue reading

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Lamar W. Hankins : Suppressing Democracy 101

Graphic from Other Means.Today’s Republicans findnew ways to suppress democracy By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 19, 2012 Registering the poor to vote ‘is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.’ — Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum … Continue reading

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FILM / Ron Jacobs : Scott Noble’s ‘The Power Principle’

Scott Noble’s ‘The Power Principle’(American Empire: The Feature Film) A remarkably detailed, clearheaded, and engrossing study of how the United States power elites created the mess we find ourselves in. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | June 13, … Continue reading

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Lamar W. Hankins : Sweet Land of Liberty (for Some)

“The Weight of Liberty.” Sculpture by Juliana Murcia Ortiz.Ah, irony:Sweet Land of Liberty When liberty serves the interest mainly of the plutocrats who are largely in control of this country, we no longer have a republic that is of, by, … Continue reading

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Tony Platt : Justice for the Living Dead

A graduate student at an anthropology museum at Berkeley uses a craniometer to measure an ancient Indian skull. This collection alone contained more than 10,000 Indian skeletons. Photo from Life magazine, October 25, 1948. Image from The Buffalo Post.Death’s double … Continue reading

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Harry Targ : The War on Afghanistan is Our Biggest Fantasy

Image from Reuters.The war on Afghanistan:Our longest war and biggest fantasy Obama’s announcement sounded eerily like the policy of ‘Vietnamization’ which President Nixon put in place in 1969. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | May 9, 2012 On … Continue reading

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BOOKS / Tom Hayden : Was LBJ More Lear Than Machiavelli?

Was LBJ more Lear than Machiavelli? Reflection on Robert Caro’s The Passage of Power By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2012 [The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (2012: Knopf); … Continue reading

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Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers : Looking Back at Kent State and Jackson State

President Richard Nixon, pointing to a Cambodian map, announces the entry of American soldiers into Cambodia, on April 30, 1970.Kent State and Jackson State:Looking back / leaning forward Richard Nixon and the political class had denounced students as thugs and … Continue reading

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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : ‘More Powerful Than Dynamite’

Occupy 1914?‘More Powerful Than Dynamite’ By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | May 2, 2012 [More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York’s Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones (2012: Walker and Company); Hardcover; 416 pp.; $28.] … Continue reading

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