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History as Politics : Remembering the Berlin Wall
Man straddles Berlin Wall in 1989. Photo from photosfan.com.History as politics, Politics as history: Remembering the Berlin Wall By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2009 …you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Cold War, Communism, Germany, History, Social Change, Socialism, Soviet Union, World History
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Development: US fails to measure up on ‘human index’ Nation slumps from 2nd to 12th in global table· Richest fifth take home $168,000, poorest $11,000 * Buzz up! * Digg it * Ashley Seager * The Guardian, Thursday 17 July … Continue reading
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Mexico : Drug Decrim and the 10,000-Ton Monkey
Pot smoker in Mexico City. Mexicans consume an estimated 342 tons of marijuana a year. Photo by Castillo / AP.Legalization is the only answer…Mexico’s massive drug problem As poet Juan Pablo Garcia posited long ago in his 1985 Pacheco (marijuana … Continue reading
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Tagged Drug Law Reform, Drug Legalization, Marijuana, Mexico, Organized Crime, War on Drugs
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Surprise! : Betrayal in Honduras as ‘Golpistas’ Ignore Accord
Manuel Zelaya closes a window at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Photo from AFP.Celebration was premature;United States expresses ‘disappointment’ …negotiating with the golpistas for reinstatement of the democratically elected president is like negotiating with thieves for the return of stolen … Continue reading
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Tagged Central America, Coups d'etat, Honduras, Latin America, Manuel Zelaya, Police Brutality
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Through the Gate in ’66 : Howling Wolf Au Go Go
Chester Arthur Burnett, aka Howling Wolf.When I was sixteen:Hitting the Village with my grandfather Wolf sang every song to the pretty hippie boy sitting directly in front of me, who turned out to be Davy Jones of the Monkees. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Deaths, Jazz, Music, Music History, Music Venues, New York, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties
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Matthew Hoh and Vietnamistan : Déjà vu all Over Again
A bright and shining lie:Hoh’s Afghanistan and John Paul Vann’s VietnamBy Richard Lee / The Rag Blog / November 8, 2009 I just got a copy of diplomat Matthew Hoh’s resignation letter from a friend in Canada. I don’t get … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Books, Matthew Hoh, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam, World History
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BOOKS / ‘Eating Animals’ : The Beef with Factory Farms
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals:A sweeping indictment of factory farms …what we should be talking about is how upward of 99 percent of animals are raised and what it does to them, what it does to the environment, what it … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Cruelty, Books, Environment, Factory Farms, Food, Investigative Journalism, Meat Industry, Nonfiction, PETA, Vegetarianism
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American Health Care : Monster Run Amok
Cartoon by RS Janes / LTSaloon.Once the envy of the world…The American health care disgrace By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / November 7, 2009 Between 1910 and 1970 American medicine was the envy of the world. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, American History, Ethics, Health Insurance, Medicine
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Real Unemployment Rate : Closing in on the Great Depression
Good times around the corner?Real unemployment rate at 17.5 percent This economic disaster was created by far too many years of Reagan-Bush-supply-side-trickle-down-union-busting-corporate-welfare-market-driven economic policy. By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / November 7, 2009 Yes, I know the federal … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Recovery, Economy, Great Depression, Unemployment
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BOOKS / Caliban and the Witch : The Creation of Capitalism
Who Were the Witches?Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009 This Halloween season, there is no book I could recommend more highly than Silvia Federici’s brilliant Caliban and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Capitalism, Catholic Church, European History, Patriarchy, Sexism, Social Movements, Witches
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Sherman DeBrosse : Pipeline Politics and the Afghanistan War
Worth all the blood?The Trans Afghanistan Pipeline By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009 President Barack Obama recently honored eighteen fallen American soldiers at a midnight ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Let us … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan Pipeline, Bin Laden, Bush Administration, Energy, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Alice Embree : Here’s to the Soldiers of Fort Hood
Jackie Thomas at Under the Hood Coffeehouse near Ft. Hood. Photo by Cynthia Thomas / The Rag Blog. Thoughts of Charles Whitman on the tower,And the soldiers who come back broken from war Bring the troops home and take care … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War GIs, Central Texas, Ft. Hood, Peace Movement
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