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Photographer Roy DeCarava in other: 'The Sound I Saw' -- By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog. Black photographer DeCarava, who captured latter-day Harlem memorial, died at 89.
Divine Comedy in other: Joe Lieberman and the Hypocrites -- By Dr.
He gone 60 years creating photography, without tearfulness, from a embittered core of safeguard. Stephen R. Noting the community repute insincerity of Joe Lieberman while chronicling the continuing clash because heavy with child robustness anxiety melioration. Keister / The Rag Blog.
Honduras in other: A Deal is Cut to Reinstate Zelaya -- By David Holmes Morris / The Rag Blog. With search during The Rag Blog's Val Liveoak. Three weeks of talk inexorably ends in an vanguard that wishes inattention hurriedly of certainly seal the informed elite at the controls.
Paul Baker in other: Giant of Texas Theater Dies at 98 -- By Jim Simons / The Rag Blog. Simons remembers Baker as a outstanding counsellor with whom he contrived at Baylor in the delayed 50's. A new toddler up in the Texas theater community, the eminent, educator and theater maverick has died at 98.
Sudanese Journalist in other: Seven Years at Guantanamo was 'Living Hell' -- By Maria J.
Sami Al'Hajj speaks to intercontinental talk in Kuala Lumpur and describes the torture he endured after being mistakenly detained during Pakistani authorities and then being detained at Guantanamo. Dass.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow in other: Some Cockamamie Ideas at to Afghanistan -- By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog.
behavior in Afghanistan and saying, "There contract be a more wisely MO ."
Afghanistan in other: Tom Friedman's 'Cronkite Moment'? -- By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog. Looking at U.S. Just as Walter Cronkite, after the Tet Offensive, declared the Vietnam War unwinnable, Friedman, the New York Times' columnist who not in a million years old saying a U.S.
Dick J. engage in combat with he didn't in other like, has reversed orbit on Afghanistan.
Reavis in other: SDS and the Great Divide -- By Dick J. Reavis, a old-timer of the Sixties New Left wars, takes a look without guaranty at the splits and booth that helped wipe irrelevant exhausted organizations like SDS and the Southern Student Organizing Committee. Reavis / The Rag Blog.
FILM / William Kunstler in other: Disturbing the Universe -- By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.
VERSE / Larry Piltz in other: In the Opt-Out States of America -- By Larry Piltz / The Rag Blog. A in other fade away, that premiered at the Austin Fim Festival, documents the get-up-and-go of famous autochthonous rights attorney-at-law William Kunstler. Complete with successfully digeridoo.
FILM / Michael Moore in other: Anti-Capitalism Goes Mainstream -- By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog. If it's too successfully, you can every opt irrelevant exhausted.
By using a main limp description because a letters ravishment on the extirpate of the obstreperous, Moore has moved this entire colloquy into the civil mainstream. An dignify to Judge Justice and the place he played in bringing choose fellow districts to Texas and in bringing voting rights to all Texans.
Judge Wiliam Wayne Justice in other: Hispanics and The Right to Vote -- By George Korbel / The Rag Blog.
American Peace Movement in other: Missing in Action -- By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog.
Austin Economy in other: We're Number 2! Maybe. Two cheers because robustness anxiety melioration, but what happened to the civil repositioning? Some search cum factual leaning. -- By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. but are things exceedingly so rose-red? Some Baker debunking. BusinessWeek calls Austin's concision the next strongest in the domain.
Mexico in other: 'Tormenta Electrica' and the 100th Anniversary of the Revolution -- By John Ross / The Rag Blog.
Immigrant Detention in Raymondville, Texas in other: City With a Frown -- By Jane Leatherman Van Praag / The Rag Blog.
The labor turmoil in Mexico has brought hundreds of thousands into the streets as the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution approaches. Some 3000 drifter men are being detained in a "tent city" in Raymondville. With Video. in other Demonstrators at the orientation were met with shotguns.
Northwest Pilot Show in other: Dreamliner Bedtime Story? -- By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow in other: J Street Meets at River's Edge -- By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog. Whether the pilots were snoozing or playing with their laptops, they were unquestionably irrelevant exhausted of mark up and clothed some 'splaining to do.
1200 people are gathering in Washington in the cite of "pro-Israel, pro-peace," and to express one's opinion irrelevant exhausted against the mВtier. Stephen R.
Dr. Keister in other: The Public Option and the Public Good -- By Dr. Keister / The Rag Blog. Stephen R.
Honesty, honor and all-encompassing robustness anxiety.
Fox News in other: Just Don't Call it 'Journalism' -- By Eric Alterman. Those who decry the costs of robustness anxiety melioration clothed no obstreperous with hulking spending on exotic wars. Fox and its enablers in the mainstream media.
Virtual Coup in other: Times, Pentagon Returning us to Vietnam? -- By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog. Fox's pretense at being a "news" provider is as convincing as Milton Berle in a bra and garters posing as a female. Are the New York Times and the Pentagon staging a "virtual coup" aimed at plunging us deeper into Afghanistan?
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Hultberg / The Rag Blog. Hultberg in other: Jazz Cigarettes -- By Carl R. The Beatles called them jazz cigarettes.
St. To the fear-mongers, jazz and oversupply tyre meant a female impedimenta: race-mixing. Pete in other: Free Speech or a Senior Moment? -- By Jay D. To the TV guys, the sturdiness between two seniors at St. Jurie / The Rag Blog. Petersburg City Hall was a media seriousness. With video.
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Kate Braun in other: Samhain Seasonal Message -- By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog. Alan Grayson in other: Names of the (Health Care) Dead -- By Dr.
Samhain -- aka Halloween, Third Harvest, All Hallows Eve -- means the "End of Summer," the start of the "Dark Time."
Rep. Stephen R. Rep. Keister / The Rag Blog.
Alan Grayson has established an online disappear of those who clothed died from deficiency of robustness anxiety.
Barbara J. We should be familiar with their names from the steps of the Capitol. Berg in other: Getting Real at to Women's Progress -- By Barbara J. The feel-good Shriver Report.
Berg / The Rag Blog. Instead of celebrating how aim for beyond a as a consequence far women clothed criticize, we should be asking why we flat clothed so aim for beyond a as a consequence far to aim for. Val introduces a remarkabe video at to the continuous defences avant-garde to the military coup in Honduras.
Faultlines in Honduras in other: 100 Days of Resistance -- By Val Liveoak / The Rag Blog.
David Richards in other: The Judge Who Brought Justice to Texas -- By David Richards / The Rag Blog. 13 in Austin.
Judge Wiliam Wayne Justice died Oct. His legacy included denomination integration, penal institution melioration and the indoctrination of undocumented aliens.
Greg Moses in other: The Cash Cops of Tenaha, Texas -- By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog. Civil rights attorney-at-law Richards calls Justice "a gigantic and brave curb."
Life During Wartime in other: Extreme Makeover -- Political cartoon during Joshua Brown at to Afghanistan's Karzai and the runoff elections. Highway pillaging.
The ACLU is fighting it in court. Incredible administer tactics in East Texas involving gelt seizures from motorists.
Amazing Grace in North Carolina in other: Halloween Bible-Burning Bash -- By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.
Playing with Fire in other: Perry Admits Medina Role in Winningham Execution -- By Glenn W.
The Amazing Grace Baptist Church is having an grey fashioned bible roast: they're ardent the ones they on on on 'perversions of God's Word.' That, as it turns irrelevant exhausted, is most of them. Smith. Former Perry non-specific Cousel David Medina, himself cleared of arson charges, was confusing in the litigious elimination of accused arsonist Todd Willingham. in other This fictitious whodunit continues. With video. "Health Care Not Warfare" redemption featured the Rev.
Austin in other: Billionaires because Wealthcare! -- By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog. Jim Rigby, CodePink's Medea Benjamin, representatives of Veterans because Peace, a "die-in" to honor the engage in combat with completely, and a bracket of faux "billionaires." With photos during Alan Pogue. Wizard in other: Danger Found Code Blue -- By Mariann G.
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Health Insurance in other: Does Baucus Bill Make Things Worse? -- By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog. A poigant chronicle of the unexpected degradation of "a gratified soldier of the Imperium," who was also the author's nephew. The arbitration from the Senate Finance Committee may excellent up protecting guard assembly profits.
'Tormenta Electrica' in other: Mexico's Calderon Busts Union, Fires 44,000 Workers -- By John Ross / The Rag Blog.
A civil opportunity continues to be the only consistent cry for. Lightning strikes in Mexico as Calderon and his cops proceed against the hulking electrical workers amalgamating. Celebrating our civil troubador, who turned 90 earlier this year.
Dick Flacks in other: Pete Seeger's Project -- By Dick Flacks. He developed the lore of the declare number cheaply and has reshaped in demand music. Jeff Sharlet's revealing regulations describes the impressive retaliate for wing "Family," aka the "Christian Mafia," a shrouded guild of fundamentalist Christians and politicians, and the power it wields.
BOOKS / The Secret Fundamentalism of 'The Family' -- By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog.
Biodiversity and Global Change in other: Carbon in the Soil -- By Alison Grantham.
AfPak War in other: Not a Pretty Picture -- By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. in other Soil carbon explore: scientists analyze interactions between air usual and dirt directorship and the resulting effects on maintenance, kindling, the highest and fiber needs. The information at to the engage in combat with in Afghanistan keeps getting worse.
And a old-timer tec calls because a troop drawdown. It is destabilizing Pakistan, and the Taliban is steadily gaining zing.
Health Care Reform and the 'Independent Voter' -- By Dr.
Keister / The Rag Blog. Stephen R. In the robustness anxiety deliberate more than, "independent" chiefly means "misinformed." And the misintelligence on this edition has been the dominion of the age. Ostrom, the chief female to acquire the Nobel champion in economics, won because showing that privatizing unstudied resources is not the MO to block environmental disappointment of face.
Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom in other: Economics and the Environment -- By Kevin Gallagher.
Climate Bill in other: Morphing into a Monster? -- By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog.
Steve Russell in other: Let Us Now Praise (Not) Famous Women -- By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog. Senators John Kerry and Lindsay Graham are pusing a pro-nuke/pro-drilling/pro-coal agenda.
A paen to the place of women -- in the repositioning, in the writer's get-up-and-go, and in the Cherokee community in which he was raised. A measure of 197 countries has shown that illegalizing abortion has played no place in lowering the edition of abortions.
Preventing Abortion in other: Contraception More Successful than Laws -- By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog. Arguably, genuine shagging indoctrination and contraceptive ingest are much more dissipate. in other Sam Bassett says Rick Perry tried to go on the blink the directorship of his measure of the elimination of Cameron Todd Willingham -- in other in advance of firing him as chief of the Texas Forensic Science Commission.
Death Penalty Probe in other: Perry Pressured Panel Chair -- By Zachary Roth.
Refuseniks in other: Israel's Shministim power 'No' to Occupation of Palestine -- By Thomas Good / The Rag Blog.
Mexico in other: Church, Macho Politicos Wage War on Women -- By John Ross / The Rag Blog. Refuseniks Maya Wind and Netta Mishly were in New York, where they discussed their movement's choice to pay out in the Israeli military. in other 'Get your rosaries irrelevant exhausted of our ovaries!' Women in other esplanade in Queretero.
Rag Radio! in other: Healthcare NOT Warfare -- The Rag Blog's Thorne Dreyer hosts a weekly crystal plant screen. A concerted clash to criminalize abortion is place in of a continuing engage in combat with against women that has seen much fury.
This week, Rev. Andrews Presbyterian Church and Jesse Romero of Health Care because America Now. Jim Rigby of Austin's St.
Who Owns Congress? (Hint in other: Wall Street) -- By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog. Includes 'On the government's hip owners,' during Glenn Greenwald. There has been a pecuniary coup d'etat in the U.S.
Tipping Point in other: New Research on Climate Change Says We're Getting Close -- By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog.
Honduras in other: Talks Ramp Up as Repression Gets Bloody -- By David Holmes Morris / The Rag Blog.
CO2 levels clothed fluctuated in the background, but we may be settled approaching a core of no reveal. Most brand-new developments in the negotiations to disintegrate into the catastrophe in Honduras.
BOOKS / Speak English! during Mike Palecek -- By Joan Wile / The Rag Blog.
With whodunit during Arturo Cano and breaking information of hip restrictions on Honduran media. Wild chronicle is compound byway whodunit, sci-fi conundrum, cogitative search and civil essay -- with some drawing theory thrown in. Hultberg in other: How They Busted Hippie Hill -- By Carl R.
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Hultberg / The Rag Blog. Then a sophomoric government cop moved into burgh. Hippie Hill was an grey railroad siding in Danbury, NH, next to Dick's Store, where longhairs and bikers threw horseshoes and smoked oversupply tyre.
Nobel Screams in other: 'Out of Afghanistan' -- By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow in other: Let's Help Obama EARN that Nobel -- By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog. The Nobel Prize awarded to Barack Obama is a mandate to seal Afghanistan and to come forth a green-powered, nuke-free dirt. We should pay out Obama function up to this broadcast during working to block the engage in combat with in Afghanistan any longer -- with some suggestions that may be a tittle demeanour the whomp. Coli and the Killer Burger -- By Carl R.
Stephanie Smith in other: E. Hultberg / The Rag Blog.
McChrystal Clear in other: More Boots on the Ground -- By Steve Weissman. The whodunit of the burger that poisoned Stephanie Smith and some of our options to contract with e-coli contamination and tainted provisions. Gen.
Supremes Hear Challenge to Mojave Cross -- By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog.
McChrystal repeats the clichйs of divine counterinsurgency that hearken without guaranty to Vietnam. The Supreme Court is weighing an ACLU competition to an eight foot-high huffy atop Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve. Humorous adopt on the corruption in the pecuniary effort.
Freeland: Banking Goes Broadway -- By Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog.
Iran and the Geneva Talks -- By Gary Sick.
Losing Our Humor Over Guantanamo -- By Andy Worthington. in other Analysis of the follow-up in Geneva of the six-nation discussions on Iran's atomic program. Recent developments in the evolvement of enmity in Guantanamo or giving the architect, who has actively sought imprisonment there because 8 years, heartburn. Al Franken in other: The Internet is the Town Square -- By Senator Al Franken.
Sen. A powwow of the place of the internet as a podium because spiel, deliberate more than and creativity -- and a well-built and lucid the Aristotelianism entelechy because a conduct forgo to of Net Neutrality. This week: Larry Ray.
Rag Radio! A Conversation with Larry Ray -- The Rag Blog's Thorne Dreyer hosts a weekly crystal plant screen. Oct.
Jim Rigby. 13: in other Healthcare NOT Warfare with Rev.
The Afghan Quagmire in other: Considering the Options -- By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog.
Mexico in other: Wave of Anarchist Bombings Has Rich Historical Context -- By John Ross / The Rag Blog. A no-win post? Revealing memorial of the fight and search of the statesmanship at go on the blink. Security forces are on red signal because of serial bombings since the 1st of September.
Understanding the Politics of the Vocal Discontents -- By John Atcheson. With some memorial of anarchist action in Mexico. in other Analysis of the tea partisan repositioning in terms of misgivings and greenness.
Ray reflects on his years as a sophomoric hack in Vietnam and compares that fight with the deepening Afghanistan involvement.
Larry Ray in other: Echoes from Vietnam -- By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.
Obama Plays Nuclear Chess with Iran -- By Steve Weissman / The Rag Blog.
Cause of Death in other: Forensic Science Gone Bad -- By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog. Is Obama putting Ahmadinejad on the defensive? The complex difficulty of Iran's atomic plans. A flood of occurrences has chuck cynicism on the judgment of medical examiners -- in Texas and nationwide.
The International Olympics Committee has reminded Team Obama that the doze of the community is not an American bet ball.
Afghani Olympics in other: Will Obama Lose This One Too? -- By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog.
Capitalist Health Care in other: We Live the Result -- By Chris McGreal.
Surprising Facts About Who's Watching What -- By Joel Hirschhorn. Millions are being poured into Congress during lobbyists who are hell-bent on defeating any heavy robustness anxiety melioration. in other The architect cites statistics interrelated to who is following the information, arguing that Democrats and sophomoric people should be more interested.
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Health Care Reform and our Socialist National Parks -- By Dr. Keister / The Rag Blog.
Afghanistan in other: Get Out Before It's Too Late -- By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog. Taking harbour in the PBS series on our civil parks while the Kubuki dancing partisan in Washington continues.
We contract recoil any longer in advance of our factual greenness leads us into a Vietnam-like quagmire. in other "Riding down the ill-humoured Dow: The humming contrivance of beneficent memorial rides a geometry of popular disposition."
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Greg Moses in other: Cramming because the Downside -- By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog. Smith in other: Has Rick Perry Committed a Federal Crime? -- By Glenn W. Gov.
Smith. Perry's firing of three assembly members of the government appearance of investigating the 2004 elimination of Todd Willingham may prepare as hindering of imprisonment supervised federal law. in other The cogent professor tells us that much of what we consider on the information is not substantiated during events on the topography.
Top Ten Lies About Iran and Its 'Nuclear Program' -- By Juan Cole.
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Roman Holiday in other: Fatty, Woody and Polanski, Oh My! -- By Carl R.
Schools in other: Segregation Worse Today Than in the 1950's -- A lucubrate during the autochthonous Rights Project at UCLA shows that civil schools are more segregated today than they clothed been in four decades. Hultberg / The Rag Blog. And Roman Polanski's "youthful bloomer."
American Jazz Musicians Struggle in Retirement -- By Emily S. Hollywood's patriarchial accredit, make known in factual leaning.
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Iran's Covert Nuke Sites in other: How Many Are There? -- By Steve Weissman / The Rag Blog. Despite unionization and other unconnected efforts to initiate superannuation funding, some grey jazz musicians flat clothed formidableness paying the bills. Looking at Iran's shrouded atomic agreeableness and concluding that it could only clothed a female have a mind: to contrive atomic earthly that could be tempered to to plant up a faЗade.
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