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Supremes Make it Official : Corporations Rule!
High court ruling on campaign finance:The corporation as supreme being By Glenn W. Smith / The Rag Blog / January 21, 2010 If you had any doubt about the corruption that has infected the very bloodstream of American politics, look … Continue reading
Brown and Palin : Photogenic Pols a Panacea for ‘Independent’ Anger?
Scott Brown and Sarah Louise Palin: All smiles and skin. Composite graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. Photos from Cosmopolitan and Vogue Magazine.Good looks and empty minds:The new political trend? By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Independents, Larry Ray, Political Opinion, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Scott Brown
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Republican Attack Machine : Controlling the Spin
Republican assault on the truth:A winning strategy for an off-year election The Democrats appear to be clueless in the face of a relentless propaganda campaign that relies upon what were once psychological tools to be used against enemy populations. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Marketing, Political Opinion, Political Strategy, Propaganda, Republican Party, Sherman DeBrosse
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Afghanistan Escalation : Footprint We Can’t Afford
Ecological footprint. Image from Sprayblog.Escalation in Afghanistan:What’s the carbon/health footprint of another senseless war? By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 30, 2009 The Afghan War may now doom our ability both to cope with the global climate … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Obama is ‘Kicking the Can’ on Afghanistan
Kicking the can. Image from Oskar Rough.Obama’s Afghanistan policy:Playing to the imaginary center Like President Johnson before him, President Obama is squandering any hope for his progressive domestic agenda by this tragic escalation of the war. By Tom Hayden / … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Iraq War, Obama Foreign Policy, Political Opinion, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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Rogues and Centrists : How Media Frame the World
The symbolic uses of politics:The Gipper and the Rogue By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009 Moderate Republicans — yes, they are not extinct, though most are in hiding — scoff at Sarah Palin and wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Media, Political Opinion, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Sociology
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Bill Maher : Bald Eagle is Out. Cute Puppy is In.
New Rule: If America Can’t Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle Get your head out of the clouds, you socialist dreamer! ‘What do we want!? A small improvement! When do we want it!? 2016!’ By Bill Maher / … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Humor, Obama Administration, Political Opinion, Political Satire
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Sarah Palin Reads Vanity Fair, Resigns as Governor
Illustration by Risko for Vanity Fair. Even the woman in the red dress who told candidate McCain at a town hall campaign gathering in 2008 she thought Obama ‘was an Arab’ should be able see past Palin’s lip gloss, if … Continue reading
Mexican Elections : Calderón Beats Law and Order Drum
Mexican President Felipe Calderón: his political muscle will be weakened. Photo by Gurinder Osan / AP. With all that sucking the sand from beneath his feet, President Felipe Calderón, like every beleagured right-winger since Nixon, is beating the Law and … Continue reading
Juan Cole on Iran : Why Mousavi Probably Won
Iranian supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi are chased by Iranian riot-police in front of Tehran university Sunday, June 14, 2009. Iranian youth took to the streets Sunday, setting trash dumpsters and tires on fire, in a … Continue reading
