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The Rag Blog Digest September 8, 2011 theragblog.blogspot.com ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575175/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/ ) Richard D. Jehn, founder Thorne Webb Dreyer, editor Mike Davis : The Embers of September ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575176/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/mike-davis-embers-of-september.html )by Mike Davis / The Rag Blog. Author and noted scholar Davis suggests that,10 years ago, Lower Manhattan became the "Sarajevo of the War on Terrorism." As with the assassination of the Archduke and his wifein 1914, a "small network of peripheral but well-connected conspirators, ennobled in their own eyes by the bitter grievances of their region, attacked a major symbol of the responsible empire." In both cases the outrages were designed to detonate "larger, cataclysmic conflicts," and they were "successful beyond the all imagining." Jay D. Jurie : Keystone XL is a Pipeline to Big Profits ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575177/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/jay-d-jurie-keystone-xl-is-pipeline-to.html )by Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog. Former NASA scientist Jim Hansen has argued that if tar sands development continues and the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is built, "it is essentially 'game over' for climate change." Jurie tells of the history of the extraction of crude oil from tar sands and its effects on the environment, and he reports on the proposedmassive pipeline from Alberta, Canada, who stands to gain from it, the dangers involved, and themilitant movement to stop it. Sarito Carol Neiman : Healthcare on the Ground II: The Angels ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575178/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/sarito-carol-neiman-healthcare-on_07.html )by Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog.This is thesecond installment ofSarito's very personal and engagingreport onher father's West Texas medical odyssey. Here she talks about health care at the high techhospital where herfather just had his operation, and the nature of hands-on care he has received. Shetells us aboutthe nurses, and especially the precious few -- labeled "angels" by her brother -- "who are doing more than just their jobs." Bob Feldman : The Alamo and the Republic of Texas ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575179/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/bob-feldman-alamo-and-republic-of-texas.html )by Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog. In his continuing series on the hidden history of Texas, Bob tells us how Santa Anna's troopsmarched on San Antonio in February 1936, where they met -- and wiped out --the mostly white Anglo men under the command of William Travis at an abandoned Franciscan mission called The Alamo. Santa Anna's men were soon defeated at San Jacinto, however, and the pro-slavery Republic of Texas was founded. Nancy Miller Saunders : Idiots and Blinders ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575180/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/nancy-miller-saunders-idiots-and.html )by Nancy Miller Saunders / The Rag Blog. Saunders, who was involved with the GI anti-war movement in the Vietnam era, asks if those who run our intelligence operations are "idiot savants," brilliant in some areas and totally oblivious in others. She considers a frightening current military effort involving "forging the onscreen cyber-trademarks used by Al Qaeda" toconfuse and incite jihadists -- and compares them to failed provocateur efforts aimed at anti-war demonstrationsscheduled forthe national political conventions in 1972. EVERY FRIDAY: KEEP TUNED IN WITH RAG RADIO! Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575181/32516/goto:http://www.koop.org/schedule/detail.php?ext=info&oa_id=33 ): Every Friday, 2-3 p.m. (CST) on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin. To stream online, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575182/32516/goto:http://www.koop.org/pages.item.86/stream-koop-listen-online.html ). 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 Listen to Thorne Dreyer's Sept. 2, 2011 Rag Radio interview with Film Historian Chale Nafus ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575183/32516/goto:http://www.archive.org/details/RagRadio2011-09-02-ChaleNafus ) of the Austin Film Society Sept. 9, 2011: Noted Writer and Political Activist Carl Davidson on the Mondragon Corp. and the Workers' Cooperative Movement. Sept. 16, 2011: Singer/Songwriter and Storyteller Don Sanders. Sept. 23, 2011: Suspense Novelist David Lindsey on the booming Private Intelligence Industry. Listen to earlier shows on Rag Radio. ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575184/32516/goto:http://www.koop.org/schedule/detail.php?ext=info&oa_id=33 ) Rag Radio is rebroadcast every Sunday at 10 a.m. (Eastern) on WFTE, 90.3-FM in Mt. Cobb, PA and 105.7-FM in Scranton, PA. Tar sands: A pipeline to profit. TONIGHT IN AUSTIN: Writer and Political Activist Carl Davidson: "Mondragon and the Workers' Cooperative Movement" A Multi-Media Presentation Thurs., Sept. 8, 2011, 7-10 p.m., 5604 Manor Austin, TX Performance by Musician Bill Oliver Harry Tarq : 9/11's in U.S. and Chile 28 Years Apart ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575185/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/harry-tarq-911s-in-us-and-chile-28.html )by Harry Targ / The Rag Blog. On Sept. 11, 1973, a violent coup in Chile resulted in the death of President Salvador Allende and, for the next 15 years, a highly repressive regime ruled with an iron fistby Gen. Augusto Pinochet. 9/11 in the U.S. was different, of course, as the country was attacked by foreign terrorists. But, "in both countries the 9/11 event was followed by violence, threats to democracy, and economic shifts from the vast majority of the population to the wealthy and political/military elites." Video / Larry Piltz : You Asked Us to Believe ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575186/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-larry-piltz-you-asked-us-to.html )by Larry Piltz / The Rag Blog. Rag Blog contributor Piltz produced and performs on this video. The post includes his lyrics: "'Fear Wins' read the headlines / on the papers in the windows / as the sun rose on the anger / of a nation in the headlines...." Mike Lofgren : Why I Left the GOP Cult ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575187/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/mike-lofgren-why-i-left-gop-cult.html )by Mike Lofgren / Truthout. Former GOP operative Lofgren provides a comprehensive chronicle of the Republican Party's remarkable and tragic descent into something moreresembling an "apocalyptic cult" than a traditional political party. "If you think Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand-worshipping colleagues aren't after your Social Security and Medicare," he warns, "I am here to disabuse you of your naivet." David Van Os : To the Blathering Pols on Labor Day ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575188/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/david-van-os-to-blathering-pols-on.html )by David Van Os / The Rag Blog. In a Labor Day commentary, noted civil rights attorney Van Ospredicts that politicians everywhere will be ascending the speaker's platforms and loudly swearing their "undying loyalty to the issues of workingfamilies." This time, he hopes, workingpeople will hold the politicians to their promises. Lamar W. Hankins : Are Bush and Perry Birds of a Feather? ( http://e2ma.net/go/7193743721/208663661/224575189/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/lamar-w-hankins-are-bush-and-perry.html )by Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog. Lamar says that Bush "was a challenge to listen to without talking back to the television," and that even today he's "unapologetic for the whoppers he told." But Rick Perry "engages in the same abandonment of truth -- on steroids." The issue of secession may excite Tea Partiers, "but Perry's Social Security statements seem intended to foment fear in young people and appeal to that ideological bugaboo socialism..." Blathering pols: Working the crowd. The Rag Blog is a non-profit internet newsmagazine produced by activist journalists committed to progressive social change. The Rag Blog is published by the New Journalism Project, inc., a Texas non-profit corporation that has been granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This status is retroactive to Oct. 9, 2008. If you do not wish to receive further email from The Rag Blog, please click on the "opt out" button below. 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