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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Fallujah: Another Failure of Bush’s Iraq Promises

Posted on October 28, 2008 by RagBlog

Iraqi workers place concrete for a small clarifier tank for a waste water treatment plant as part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to rebuild the Fallujah sewer system. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Travis Edwards.$100-million … Continue reading →

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That’s the Ball Game

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog

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Earth’s Oceans Are Deeply Troubled

Posted on October 28, 2008 by RagBlog

Reefs including the Great Barrier Reef off Australia could begin to break up within a few decades, research suggests. Photograph: Cathie PageClimate deal may be too late to save coral reefs, scientists warnBy David Adam / October 27, 2008 A … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Is it Wrong to be Muslim in America?

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

‘Fear and even hatred of Islam is a part of the actual America at this moment of our history.’ By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / October 27, 2008 Said Colin Powell in a recent major interview, “The … Continue reading →

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Is Surfing the Internet Altering your Brain?

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

A functional MRI brain scan shows how searching the Internet dramatically engages brain neural networks (in red). The image on the left displays brain activity while reading a book; the image on the right displays activity while engaging in an … Continue reading →

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No Fairy Tale : Palin’s Cinderella Moment

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

‘This is just so over-her-head amateurish.’By Paul Robbins / The Rag Blog / October 27, 2008 I watched the TV News of Sarah Palin speaking in Tampa Sunday. My jaw dropped as I heard the quote. Those [$150,000] clothes, they … Continue reading →

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Palin’s Pipeline : Rigged from the Start

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

‘This deal smells like the same old Republican policy of enriching their friends at the expense of American citizens.’By Ted McLaughin / October 27, 2008 Sarah Palin has repeatedly referred to her approval of a $40 billion natural gas pipeline … Continue reading →

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Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood : Taking Politics Seriously

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Vote. But don’t stop there!Looking beyond the election and beyond electionsby Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood We have nothing against voting. We plan to vote in the upcoming election. Some of our best friends are voters. But we also believe … Continue reading →

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CodePink Austin Gives Cornyn the (Pink) Slip

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Deborah Vanko / The Rag Blog‘Rather than giving the Senator another term to “move to the center,” we think he should keep following the Bush administration right out the door.‘By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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Some Straight Talk on Socialism and Bullshit

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

The late great American socialist Norman Thomas. Photo courtesy of The Bancroft Library / University of California, Berkeley.‘The Republican vocabulary has always involved mindless terminology, word choices that cause apprehension and fear in the uninformed, such as “socialism.”’By Dr. S. … Continue reading →

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Sarah Palin : Queen for a Day (Or Two)

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

‘In Obama’s absence, the McCain-Palin campaign continued to self-implode.’By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / October 26, 2008 Less than a dozen days till the presidential election. A fiction writer couldn’t have come up with the political plot changes … Continue reading →

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Trick or Treat : Sarah Palin in 2012

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Sarah Palin on Halloween: Now THAT’S scary.If conservatives keep jumping Repug ship, then Palin’s the one.By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / October 26, 2008 McCain can have only two hopes left in 2008: the Bradley Effect is stronger … Continue reading →

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