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JONAH RASKIN : INTERVIEW | Why do men keep making war?: An interview with scholar Michael Klare
Michael Klare has had war on his mind for the past 60 years. Michael Klare on Rag Radio, May 7, 2021. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2022 Michael Klare has had war in all its many ignominious manifestations on his mind for the past 60 years, going back to the heady days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For the same period of time, he has also had on his mind preparations for war, which seem to be ongoing and never ending.
Ivan Koop Kuper : MUSIC | Lightnin’ Hopkins: Texas blues man
His appearance on Austin City Limits was a highlight of Lightnin’s career. Lightnin’ Hopkins in Houston’s Third Ward. By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog | November 11, 2020 HOUSTON — Texas blues legend Samuel “Lightnin’” Hopkins was 66 years of age in 1978, when he was booked by television producer Terry Lickona, to be included in the fourth season of the nationally syndicated PBS TV program,” Austin City Limits.” The idea to have Hopkins perform was pitched to Lickona by Ron R.
Marilyn Katz : Whose race, and gender, is it anyway?
Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal trigger an important conversation about identity and society. Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair. By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | June 27, 2015 CHICAGO — Gender and race are not static but socially-created identities that can and should be questioned. So much has been said in recent weeks about Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal and the porous boundaries of gender and race. But neither the questions nor answers are definitive.
Radio Free America - Show
Austin, TX Driving in the Left Lane! Cutting edge alternative journalism, politics, and culture in the spirit of the 60's underground press. Host and producer: Thorne Dreyer Co-producer and engineer: Tracey Schulz Rag Radio features hour-long in-depth interviews and discussion about issues of progressive politics, culture, and history. Our guests include newsmakers, artists, leading thinkers, and public figures – from Austin, Texas, and around the world.
Rag Radio
Driving in the Left Lane! Cutting edge alternative journalism, politics, and culture in the spirit of the 60's underground press. Host and producer: Thorne Dreyer Co-producer and engineer: Tracey Schulz Rag Radio features hour-long in-depth interviews and discussion about issues of progressive politics, culture, and history. Our guests include newsmakers, artists, leading thinkers, and public figures – from Austin, Texas, and around the world.
Saudis convert to Zionism - re-circumcized at Paris synagogue
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that two top Saudi officials visited Paris’s Grand Synagogue last Monday. Though the Post was unable to reveal the purpose of the visit, sources have told Dissociated Press that the officials were following in the footsteps of Saudi grand poobah Mohammed Bin Salman, who secretly converted to Zionism in a ceremony at Israel’s National Temple two weeks ago.
Mike Davis : The undead
I finally think I’ve understood why we’re so obsessed with zombies. The discarded shroud, the rustling in the weeds, the vaporous apparitions seen from Pocatello to Lake Wobegone, the ghost army of admirers… we were forewarned that he was back but failed to pay attention.
The Radical Imaginations of Our Children Should Be Nurtured
First-grade students learning contractions at the Detroit Leadership Academy elementary school in Detroit, Michigan, on May 4, 2016. (Joshua Lott / The New York Times) Attention all movement-makers! The time is ripe for radical social change and the new book from educator and activist Bill Ayers is sure to inspire you. Demand the Impossible! explores alternatives to today's endless war, environmental destruction and economic crisis, and suggests strategies for building a more peaceful world.
Lisa Fithian: FBI Informant Brandon Darby : Sexism, Egos, and Lies
Sometimes you wake up and it is not different [The Rag Blog has reported extensively on FBI informant Brandon Darby and the Texas 2. We have also dealt with the larger issues related to governmental use of espionage and informants.
Mariann G. Wizard : Richard Lee, 1940-2014: Farewell to an enemy of the State
‘His life was tempered by his grasp of history, his sense of justice, and his refusal to conform.’ Dick at Belle Isle Park, Michigan, 1987. Photo courtesy AmericanTribune.org. By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | March 10, 2015 In writing this remembrance, I had vital assistance from Robert Blurton, David P.
Harvey Wasserman : Gorgeous global march shows how to win the climate fight
Huge environmental action in New York teaches us that the answer to change lies with the grass roots.
Ron Jacobs : BOOKS | The evil that was Phoenix
“Phoenix was far worse than the things attributed to it.” — Ed Murphy, former member of the Phoenix program. [The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine (June, 2014: Open Road Media, Forbidden Bookshelf series); eBook ; 486 pp; $14.99. (Originally published in hardcover by William Morrow, 1990; Published in paperback by iUniverse in 2000). ] There’s a reason the CIA wanted to prevent the publication of Douglas Valentine’s 1990 book, The Phoenix Program.
LITERATURE / Ron Jacobs : Crime Fiction and Capitalist Reality
Crime fiction and capitalist reality By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | June 4, 2013 The novel is generally acknowledged to be a bourgeois form of literature. It wasn’t until there were enough literate people with time for leisurely reading that this entertainment came along. The crime novel reflects the bourgeois obsession with order and usually represents the concerns of that class. There is a crime against an individual that shakes up bourgeois society.
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