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HARRY TARG : WAR AND PEACE | Reflections on the War in Ukraine
By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | March 10, 2012 Many of us in the peace movement have had useful conversations (and debates) stimulated by the war on Ukraine. We are discussing the causes of the invasion of Ukraine … Continue reading
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Tagged CodePink, Harry Targ, NATO, Neo-fascism, Rag Bloggers, Russian Invasion, Ukraine
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The Ukrainian mess: Where are the skeptics?
is this another replay of the Vietnam and Iraq eras when our mass media merely echoed government spokespeople? By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | September 9, 2014 Poor Katrina van den Heuvel and husband Stephen Cohen, she the … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimean Annexation, Mass Media, Murray Polner, NATO, Nazis, New Cold War, Rag Bloggers, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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Crimea, Obama, and the nostalgia for World War I
The poet Wilfred Owen had the courage to look reality in the face. What can he tell us? By Rick Ayers | The Rag Blog | April 16, 2014 It is fitting that President Obama should quote the poem “In … Continue reading
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What really happened in Ukraine?
Nothing quite like this move on the geopolitical chessboard has happened since the U.S. became the world’s single superpower over two decades ago. By Jack A. Smith | The Rag Blog | April 3, 2014 “The West must understand that, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, Crimean Annexation, Crimean Conflict, European Union, geo, Jack A. Smith, Mainstream Media, NATO, neo-Nazis, Neocons, Public Opinion, Rag Bloggers, Russian History, U.S.-Russian Relations, Ukraine, Ukrainian Coup, Ukranian Fascism, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, World History
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The Cold War that threatens democracy
The new Cold War doctrine is that democratically elected nationalist or socialist leaders are new dominos threatening the fall of a U.S.-controlled order. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2014 While the first Cold War was … Continue reading
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Straight talk about Crimea
Was the referendum on Crimea’s independence legitimate? Does Catalonia have a right to secede from Spain? Scotland from Britain? Texas from Mexico? By Ed Felien | The Rag Blog | March 17, 2014 Crimea is a dangling appendix to the … Continue reading
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Is a new Cold War upon us?
From the residue of the old Soviet Union, a new nationalist, nuclear-armed, resource-rich Russia has risen to challenge Western claims of triumphalism. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Haven’t the Republicans, the neoconservatives, and the … Continue reading
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Who makes U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century?
U.S. efforts in Venezuela and the Ukraine exemplify imperialism engineered through an embedded, extra-political ‘deep state.’ By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | March 4, 2014 I have been teaching courses on United States foreign policy for about 40 … Continue reading
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Tagged Covert Operations, Deep State, Harry Targ, Hugo Chavez, Interventionism, Military Intervention, National Endowment for Democracy, Neoliberal Capitalism, Obama Foreign Policy, Peace Activists, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Imperialism, Ukraine, Venezuela
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