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Jonah Raskin : BP’s Silent Siren and our Nation of Sleepwalkers
Sleep Walkers by Thomas Fedro, c. 2009 / Art for Art’s Sake.Silent siren: Symbol for our somnambulant age By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2010 Americans have been distracting themselves to death for decades. They’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, British Petroleum, Jonah Raskin, Oil Spill, Psychology
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Greg Moses : Capitalism, Race Relations, and Tea Party Denial
Cartoon by Bennett / Chattanooga Times Free Press / Motor City Liberal.A national conversion in race relations?Beyond Tea Party denial, mockery, and deceit By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / July 26, 2010 Call me evangelist for anti-racist conversion … Continue reading
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CAB POVERTY BE ELIMINATED ? Poverty is one of those social evils that has been around as long as civilization has been. It seems like there have always been a societal division into those who have and those who don’t … Continue reading
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CAB POVERTY BE ELIMINATED ? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 26, 2010 Poverty is one of those social evils that has been around as long as civilization. It seems like there has always been a societal … Continue reading
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A People’s Folk Music History of the United States If you’re a Rag Blog reader who’s into either urban protest folk music or anti-corporate country music, you might be interested in listening for free to “A People’s Folk Music History … Continue reading
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Jack A. Smith : Israel and Palestine After the Flotilla / 4
The two wild cards. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani shown with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2009. Photo by Amir Kholoosi / ISNA.Part 4: Two wild cards, Turkey and IranIsrael and Palestine after the Flotilla By Jack A. … Continue reading
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Tagged Freedom Flotilla, Iran, Israel, Jack A. Smith, Middle East, Palestinian Occupation, Turkey
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Harvey Wasserman : Why Stewart Brand is Wrong on Nukes
Image from Greenopolis.Reinventing the Brand:Whole Earth icon isDead wrong on nukesBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / July 25, 2010 Stewart Brand has become a poster boy for a “nuclear renaissance” that has just suffered a quiet but stunning … Continue reading
Marc Estrin : Hingepoint of History
65 years and counting:Hingepoint of history By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2010 As I write, we are one week past the 65th anniversary of what may be the most important date in the history of … Continue reading
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Larry Ray : Hitting the Pause Button
From the land of the ‘oil geezer’:America’s round-the-clock ‘churnalism’ By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / July 21, 2010 GULFPORT, Mississippi — This column has been on pause for almost a month. The disgust and distraction from smelly, greasy … Continue reading
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Tagged Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Coast, Journalism, Larry Ray, Media, Mississippi, Oil Spill
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