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Roger Baker : Debunking the Vaccine Scare

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic by David Dees / deesillustration.comSwine flu vaccine: The facts behind the kerfuffleBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 5, 2009 Are the big pharmaceutical companies endangering our health with risky things like swine flu vaccine? Maybe vaccines … Continue reading →

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Foodie Friday: Food Is Power

Posted on September 11, 2009 by RagBlog

Graphic from the Environmental Working Group.The Carbon TradeBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2009 Seventy percent of the farm subsidy goes to just a small number of states in the upper Mississippi River basin, where farmers … Continue reading →

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If We Do Not Change the Way We Produce Food, There Will Be Crisis Within Ten Years

Posted on December 6, 2008 by RagBlog

‘Yes We Can’ Create a Sane Food Policy in the USBy Bruce Friedrich / December 6, 2008 Two extensive reports released in April indicate that our current method of devising food policy is broken and that the current system is … Continue reading →

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Fatty Foods : All the Skinny

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

‘Obesity, though some would prefer to call it eating disorders, is a big growth area, not just for the unwitting sufferers, but also for some food companies which contribute so greatly to the problem.’By Asinus Asinum Fricat / November 18, … Continue reading →

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Corporate Contrition Is an Outdated Concept?

Posted on October 21, 2008 by RagBlog

Members of the activist group ‘Code Pink’ waved signs marked with the words “shame” and “greed” when Richard S. Fuld Jr., CEO of now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers, arrived to testify before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Oct. … Continue reading →

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NUTRITION : Are ‘Organic’ Foods Just a Marketing Ploy?

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Organic apple. Better, or just more expensive?Study shows what you eat is more important than whether the food meets the criteria to be called ‘organic’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2008 Are “organic” foods really safer … Continue reading →

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BOOKS : Jim Hightower Raising Hell

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

‘Texas has produced some of the most arresting progressive voices of the last generation. Working against the state’s Rightward flow, they have harkened to its populist tradition’By Jonathan Rowe / August 20, 2008 There is something to be said for … Continue reading →

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Mesmo’s Reflections on the Sixties

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Janis Joplin, folksinger. Austin, Texas, 1965, at The 11th Door on Red River Street. Photo by Bob Simmons / The Rag Blog. Gerry Storm wrote the following reminiscence on Austin music in the sixties for the Texas Ghetto website in … Continue reading →

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Thiher — and The Rag Bloggers — on Obama, Heaven, Hell

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Updated April 6, 2008 by The Rag Blog The following comes to us from Gary Thiher, our compadre from the sixties and seventies who now professes philosophy in Arkansas. His comments are in response to The Left and Barack Obama … Continue reading →

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4,000 and No End in Sight

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Coffins mark the U.S. and Iraqi dead at Austin vigil. Photo by Alice Embree.Austin vigil marks 4,000 dead.by Alice Embree / March 25, 2008 / The Rag Blog For over a month, CodePink Austin had the 4,000 U.S. dead in … Continue reading →

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Where Are the Proposals for Serious Political Reform?

Posted on February 25, 2008 by RagBlog

Obama Hope Beating Clinton HelpBy Joel Hirschhorn, published Feb 14, 2008 Hope mongering has been working much better than experience mongering. Now, the rest of the story…. As befits American culture, politics is all about slick selling to the masses. … Continue reading →

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Peace on Earth, After We Overthrow Capitalism

Posted on December 25, 2007 by RagBlog

Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a StageBy IAN URBINA ,December 24, 2007 This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves … Continue reading →

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