Media Punditry: The Beast Without a Brain
Why Horse Race Journalism Works for Journalists and Fails Us (This article is from TomDispatch.com Jan. 20th. Here is Tom…
Category: Media
Another Old OB Rag — March 1972 — Scanned!
See the Simmering Pages of the March 1972 Edition of the Original OB Rag! Yes, that’s right! See the issue…
Posted in: Media, OB Time Machine, Ocean Beach
Gross Distortions, Sloppy Methodology and Tendentious Reporting
Staff January 13, 2008 6 Comments on Gross Distortions, Sloppy Methodology and Tendentious Reporting
How the New England Journal of Medicine Undercounted Iraqi Civilian Deaths By ANDREW COCKBURN Almost five years into the destruction…
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1/11, It’s Our Disgrace!
“As part of the worldwide protest against torture and for the restoration of Habeas/Corpus we stand in solidarity with humans…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Media, Peace Movement
Noam Chomsky: We Own The World
(Adapted from a June 2007 speech) January, 01 2008 You all know, of course, there was an election-what is called…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Election, Media, War and Peace
A Retrospective: Interview with Lowell Bergman – Who Inspired the OB Rag
Frank Gormlie January 9, 2008 0 Comments on A Retrospective: Interview with Lowell Bergman – Who Inspired the OB Rag
Lowell Bergman: 60 Minutes Producer, Journalist, Writer for San Diego’s First Underground Newspaper, Anti-war Activist, Student of Herbert Marcuse and…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Media, Organizing
George McGovern Urges Impeachment of Bush/Cheney
In an article in the Sunday, January 6, 2008 edition of the Washington Post, George McGovern “urges Congress to act….
Posted in: Civil Rights, Media, War and Peace
New Orleans Coalition To City Hall: No To Demolitions
Michael Steinberg December 19, 2007 0 Comments on New Orleans Coalition To City Hall: No To Demolitions
The Coalition To Stop Demolition held a press conference at City Hall yesterday to implore the City Council and Mayor…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Media
Tagged: Katrina, New Orleans
Future Direction of the Peace Movement – the Continued Debate
Gregg Robinson December 18, 2007 2 Comments on Future Direction of the Peace Movement – the Continued Debate
Ed: With Gregg Robinson’s post, we continue the much needed debate on the future direction of the antiwar movement. Gregg…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Election, Media, Organizing, Peace Movement, War and Peace
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS MOUNTS (satire)
Click on the image to see a format large enough that you may read it on your monitor, then depending…
OB Rag Retrospective: Fall 1972 – the Rag & Other OB Alternatives Going Full Blast
Frank Gormlie December 15, 2007 1 Comment on OB Rag Retrospective: Fall 1972 – the Rag & Other OB Alternatives Going Full Blast
By Fall of 1972, it was the OB Rag’s second birthday – the beginning of its third year, and the…
Posted in: Media, OB Time Machine, Ocean Beach, Organizing
The Anti-War Movement Needs This Debate: Why Is There Is No Mass in Our Mass Movement?
Frank Gormlie December 13, 2007 11 Comments on The Anti-War Movement Needs This Debate: Why Is There Is No Mass in Our Mass Movement?
Indebted is how I feel towards activists like Gregg Robinson and Rick Nadeau and Tom Hayden, for they all have…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Election, Media, Organizing, Peace Movement, War and Peace
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