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Yearly Archives: 2010
Scandal in the Church : Time for Pope to Depart?
In 1294, Pope Celestine V issued a decree making it permissible for a Pope to resign. Then he resigned. Detail from portrait of Celestine V, artist unknown.There is historical precedent:Should Benedict apologize and resign? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Child Abuse, Pope Benedict XVI, Sex Crimes, Ted McLaughlin
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Bolivia’s Evo Morales : Putting the Coca Back in Cola
Bolivian President Evo Morales and Coca Colla. Above, photo from 1buenaidea.com. Below, photo by Red Erbol / Abiding in Bolivia.Supports new coca-based drink:Evo Morales tells Coke to take a hike By Nikolas Kozloff / April 2, 2010 Move over Coca-Cola: … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolivia, Coca Cola, Cocaine, Drug War, Evo Morales, Latin America, South America, United Nations
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Conspiracy Theories : Exhaust Fumes from the Angry
Photo montage by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Conspiracies:Exhaust fumes from the angry What better way to divert attention from the catastrophic eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration than to fan the flames of discontent with renewed conspiracy theories and … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Larry Ray, Racism, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists
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Mexico : Fear of ‘Narco Guerrilla’ Haunts Officials
Cieneguillas state prison in Zacatecas, Mexico, where armed commandos freed more than 50 inmates in a raid May 16, 2009. Photo by Oscar Baez / AP / Huffington Post.Phantom of Mexican narco guerrillaHaunts U.S. security chiefs By John Ross / … Continue reading
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / April 1, 2010 What’s with Obama? The President has run true to form in his announcement of ending the moratorium on off-shore drilling in part of the Atlantic Coast. Some reports … Continue reading
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Sherman DeBrosse : The Resistible Rise of the Tea Bagger Movement
Dale Robertson, who claims to have founded the Tea Party movement. Photo from February 27, 2009, Tea Party in Houston.Not by bread alone: Why the Tea Baggers are successful Anger and fear have a way of spreading, and the Tea … Continue reading
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Tagged Populism, Racism, Republican Party, Right Wing Extremists, Sherman DeBrosse, Social Protest, Tea Baggers
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Greg Moses : Operation Tiny Tim
Operation Tiny Tim:Retired generals campaign for Health care equity for all children By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / April 1, 2010 A new association of retired military generals plans today to announce “Operation Tiny Tim” to secure the … Continue reading
Ansel Herz : Haiti Looking More Like a War Zone
Woman walks along hurricane-devastated street in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Photo by Jorge Saenz / AP.Haiti today: Looking more and more like a war zone “The U.N. is a big, huge, heavy bureaucracy. And bureaucracies do not work well … Continue reading
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Tagged Ansel Herz, Earthquake, Haiti, Natural Disasters, United Nations
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Whatever we did; it was not enough. But quite possibly nothing we could have done would have been enough. SDS, Weathermen, PL, RYM, Sojurner Truth, Surrealist group, Yippies, pacifists….But we were an active force in history, neither bystanders nor victims….Like … Continue reading
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Tom Hayden : The Rising Cost of College
Students at the State University of New York protest tuition hikes, November, 2009. Photo from Albany Times UnionWe can’t afford to be quietAbout the rising cost of collegeBy Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / March 30, 2010 “There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Campuses, Hillary Clinton, Sixties, Social Protest, Student Activism, Tom Hayden
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FILM / Peter Watkins’ ‘La Commune’ : A Conceptual Tour de Force
PETER WATKINS’ LA COMMUNE By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2010 The Paris Commune, that is — a citizens’ revolt against a royalist government, the organizing of that revolt, and the crushing of it by government … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Film, French Commune, Marc Estrin, Theater
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