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Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Health Care Stories for America Blog
Not only can you read the stories, but write one yourself on this website. It also recognizes your zip-code location when you link up so you get the immediate stories that are in and around your location. When you read … Continue reading
Marijuana : It’s High Time to Tax the Pot Crop
It’s time for the government to cash in on the marijuana crop.Time to tax marijuana [With] budget deficits and a worsening recession, it only makes sense to stop spending money to fight marijuana use and start taxing that use to … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Agriculture, California, Drug Law Reform, Economy, Marijuana
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David Zeiger : This is Where We Take Our Stand
Episode One : For Those Who Would Judge Me This is Where We Take Our Stand A web series about Winter Soldier By David Zeiger / The Rag Blog / July 18, 2009 I am more than pleased to announce … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Anti-War GIs, Anti-War Vets, Iraq War, Video, VVAW, Winter Soldiers
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The Demand Crisis and the Wall Street Pirates. Aaaargh!
The Demand Crisis We could demand that all the pirate trunks of ‘toxic assets’ be loaded onto flatbed trucks and driven back to California where they belong. Overnight, California would need no more IOU’s. By Greg Moses / The Rag … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Finance, Financial Crisis, Wall Street
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Through the Windshield
Seen at the corner of E. 12th St. and Pleasant Valley Rd., in Austin, Texas,an unlikely art sale. Perhaps it’s the heat…Mariann Wizard The Rag Blog
John Ross on the Mexican Elections : The Dinosaur is Back
Jurassic fallout from the Mexican election:The dinosaur is back, but for how long? By John Ross / The Rag Blog / July 16, 2009 Also see ‘No more environmental pretensions: The Green PRI,’ By John Ross, Below. MEXICO CITY — … Continue reading
Freedom of Choice : No Nanny State
The Marlboro Man: The picture of Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, now an Iraq War vet, raised a stink among anti-smoking activists when it appeared in scores of newspapers in 2004. Photo by Luis Sinco. It does not matter whether … Continue reading
Dick Cheney Isn’t the Only One Who Planned Assassinations
When a person repeats precisely the same behaviour over and over again, but expects the result to be different, that is Einstein’s definition of insanity. Americans have been doing the same thing over and over again for 200 years, somehow … Continue reading
Tom Hayden Comic : The Long War
The Long WarText by Tom Hayden.Illustrated by Sam Marlow and Ellis Rosen. Edited by Paul Buhle.Published by The Rag Blog. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE See additional frames, Below. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Afghanistan, American History, Comics, Imperialism, Iraq Occupation, Pakistan, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Robert Jensen : Getting Radicalized, Slow and Painful
Portrait of Robert Jensen by Robert Shetterly.Becoming a radical:The grief and the joy Becoming radicalized politically allowed me to see that I was suffering because I didn’t want to fit into a world shaped by unjust systems; the problem wasn’t … Continue reading
A Stimulus Plan With Jubilee Vouchers. Hallelujah!
Keeping the bear at bay:Jubilee Vouchers and a complete stimulus plan If we don’t get a serious world-historical plan in place before the real Bear Market hits we’ll soon be thinking of ‘mere unemployment’ as the good old days. By … Continue reading
Juan Cole on Cheney’s Criminal Irrelevance – II
Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-UpsBy Juan Cole / July 13, 2009 It turns out that the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta cancelled, and which former VP Richard Bruce Cheney ordered hidden from Congress, was in … Continue reading
