Tag Archives: Harry Targ

Korea : ‘Our Forgotten War’ (And our Annual Fantasy)

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

The Korean War “became a war against an entire nation.” Photo from the National Archives and Records Administration.Seeds of an imperial policy:‘Our Forgotten War’ in Korea By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2010 “If we stand … Continue reading →

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Connecting the Dots : Theory and History

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Audience members listen to a translation through headphones as President Barack Obama speaks at Cairo University on June 4, 2009. Photo from Radio Free Europe.Connecting the Dots:Developing a theoretical worldview By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / June 11, … Continue reading →

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Vietnam and Afghanistan : Still Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

American soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a Vietnam Swamp. Photo by Paul Halverson, 1969. Image from The Veterans Hour.Afghanistan, and the specter of Vietnam:Waist deep in the big muddy By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / May 27, … Continue reading →

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Who Should We Believe? : Faisal Shahzad, and the Gulf of Tonkin

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Gulf of Tonkin incident, off the coast of North Vietnam, August 2, 1964. Illustration by E.J. Fitzgerald (1980) / U.S. Navy Historical Center / Wikimedia Commons.Who should we believe?How foreign policy lies lead to war By Harry Targ / The … Continue reading →

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In a Changing World : Workers on the Move

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Workers in Paris join in massive May Day demonstration. Photo from AFP.As the nature of work evolves…A week of worker militancy Those who proclaimed May Day as the workers’ day over a hundred years ago understood the need for global … Continue reading →

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Social Forum Movement : ‘Another World is Possible’

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Mural from 2009 Kentucky Social Forum, promoting U.S. Social Forum, June 22-26, 2010, in Detroit.Resistance to ‘globalization’:The Social Forum movement At the dawn of the new century, a new tradition, inspired by the hundreds of years of resistance, was launched… … Continue reading →

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Bay of Pigs Invasion : Blows up in Kennedy’s Face

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Cuban cigar: Bay of Pigs invasion blows up in JFK’s face. Cartoon by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (1902-1979) / Illingworth Collection / National Library of Wales.Decades of foreign policy folly:Cuba and the Bay of Pigs invasion The Bay of Pigs fiasco … Continue reading →

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Employment Crisis : Inequality and the Global South

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

How it impacts workers:Transformation in the Global South The end product… has been increasing global inequality in wealth and income and the continuation of massive poverty, powerlessness, and precariousness. By Harry Targ (with David Cormier) / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Progressive Giants : Celebrating Paul Robeson and Anne Braden

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Two books about two progressive giants:Celebrating Paul Robeson and Anne Braden By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2010 The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my … Continue reading →

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Why’s There no Money for Education? (Hint: War)

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo from .M.’s photostream / Flickr.The legacy of ‘starving the state’ The project of privatizing the educational system, by starving the public system, has been paralleled by a fundamental feature of American government, the existence of a Permanent War Economy. … Continue reading →

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Text and Subtext : The Media’s Tea Party

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Framing the Tea Party movement: New Left redux? Photo from RaceWire.‘Wal-Mart Hippies?’Framing the Tea Party movement By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 10, 2010 Friday morning I was listening to my pseudo “fair and balanced” National Public … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ : The Theory of Bagel Capitalism

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Political theory and the tower of bagel. Image from Neurotopia.Bagels and the theory of capitalist development I think Marx had a pretty good analysis of how capitalism works but even I recognize that his theory did not adequately come to … Continue reading →

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