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Yearly Archives: 2008
Is Surfing the Internet Altering your Brain?
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
No Fairy Tale : Palin’s Cinderella Moment
‘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
Palin’s Pipeline : Rigged from the Start
‘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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Tagged Alaska, Alaska Pipeline, Corporate Corruption, Political Corruption, Sarah Palin
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Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood : Taking Politics Seriously
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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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Electoral politics, Imperialism, November Election, Social Change
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CodePink Austin Gives Cornyn the (Pink) Slip
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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Tagged Austin, CodePink, Direct Action, John Cornyn, November Election, Peace Activists, Texas
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Some Straight Talk on Socialism and Bullshit
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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Tagged American History, European History, Norman Thomas, Socialism
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Sarah Palin : Queen for a Day (Or Two)
‘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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Tagged McCain Campaign, McCain Mistakes, November Election, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin
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Trick or Treat : Sarah Palin in 2012
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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Tagged 2012 Elections, November Election, Republican Party, Sarah Palin
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Rice University : A Beer That Fights Cancer and Heart Disease!
Genetic engineering could give Joe Six Pack anti-aging and cancer-fighting benefitsBy Sharon Gaudin / October 21, 2008 Have you ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer’s day and thought that it simply couldn’t get any better? … Continue reading
Don’t Write Off That Attack on Iran Quite Yet
Waiting for the Curtain to RiseBy Alexander Cockburn / October 24, 2008 So what happened to the Bush/Cheney pre-election attack on Iran? It’s like everything else. You think you have months. You put it on one side, in the “things … Continue reading
Guantanamo Irregularities Yield Military Probe
Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, in a June 4, 2008 file photo. Photo: Brennan Linsley/Reuters.U.S. general target of Guantanamo probeBy Danica Coto / October 26, 2008 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – … Continue reading
Canada: Where Torture Is Condemned
Former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci found that Canadian security services probably contributed indirectly to the torture in Syria of three Arab Canadians suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. Photo: Chris Wattie/ReutersPrejudice in a post-9/11 worldBy Haroon Siddiqui / October … Continue reading
