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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Life During Wartime : Corporations Are People Too!
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThanks to Dr. S.R. Keister /The Rag Blog
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Tagged Campaign Finance, Corporate Power, Joshua Brown, Political Cartoon, Political Satire, Supreme Court
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Robert Jensen : How the Media Has Failed Us on Haiti
CNN’s Anderson Cooper helps child hurt in rare incidence of violence in aftermath of Haitian earthquake. Great television/bad journalism:Media failures in Haiti coverage By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / January 25, 2010 CNN’s star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, Earthquake, Haiti, Imperialism, Mainstream Media, Media Criticism, Natural Disasters, Robert Jensen, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Marc Estrin : The Revolutionary Messages of Classical Music
Johannes Brahms by Lucian Tidorescu. Protest music:Radical themes of the great composers The Brahms Requiem is also movement music, unbearably beautiful, revealingly deep — like our afflicted lives. By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 25, 2010 In … Continue reading
San Francisco’s Castro District : How Does Your Garden Grow?
Bill Murphy oversees the care and maintenance of Corwin Street Community Garden in San Francisco’s Castro District. Photo from Hedonia.Tending our garden:The politics of planting (and sharing): By Allen Young / The Rag Blog / January 24, 2010 See ‘Fruits … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Allen Young, Community Organizing, Neighborhood Activists, San Francisco, Urban Gardens
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BOOKS / Mike Roselle and Jeffrey St. Clair : Two From the Green Hard Core
Mike Roselle and Jeffrey St. Clair:Green activism from the front lines By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / January 24, 2010 [Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action by Mike Roselle. Published by … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Authors, Books, Environmental Groups, Green Movement, Greenpeace, Harvey Wasserman, Nature
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Roger Baker : Is America Already a Failed State?
Is America already a failed state?No public trust for a dysfunctional system The main obstacle to progress is a corporate dominated political system that resists favoring broad long range public benefits over the short term profits of the few. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Corporate Power, Economic Crisis, Economy, Government Regulation, Political Opinion, Roger Baker
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Songbird Kate McGarrigle : Heart Like a Wheel
Kate McGarrigle. Photo from BeatCrave courtesy McGarrigles.comKate McGarrigle:The fading art of singing together “Some say the heart is just like a wheel, once you bend it, you just can’t mend it…” By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Carl R. Hultberg, Deaths, Entertainers, Folk Music, Kate McGarrigle, Music, Musicians, People, Singers, Songwriters
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Health Care and Campaign Finance : The Corporate Stranglehold
“A Jail for Uncle Sam,” By Arcadio Esquivel / Cagle Cartoons / La Prensa, Panama.Buying politics in America, Inc:Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts debacle, And dimming hopes for health care reform By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
Terrorism, Real and Imagined : Let Us Pray
Fear of flying:Tefillin or TNT?Bomb or biblical blessing? By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 22, 2010 To say that the threat of terrorism has America’s airline passengers a bit goosey is an understatement. Yesterday, Jan. 21, 2010, … Continue reading
Karl Rove’s Revolution : Senator Brown and the Myth of the Middle
Republican strategist Karl Rove. Photo by Doug Mills / NYT.The Rovian Revolution:Why the Dems must learn from Massachusetts By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / January 22, 2010 Over the last 40 years, voter turnout has been steadily … Continue reading
Military Buildup in Colombia : A Rumor of War
Colombian army soldiers shown during training exercises. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.A rumor of war:Shadows of Vietnam in ColombiaBy Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / January 22, 2010 CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia — I borrowed the title of this post … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, Latin America, Marion Delgado, South America, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military, Venezuela
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