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Obama, the Anti-War Movement and the Neo-Cons: Turning the Ship Around
“Warship 53.” Photo from sailsarana.com Obama’s agenda of ‘turning the battleship’ is not our agenda of disarming it altogether: ending U.S. interventionism and bullying of all sorts, initiating an era of peaceful global cooperation to tackle poverty, disease, global warming … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow : ‘The Mormons are Coming, the Jews are Coming’
“The Mormons are Coming” / Californians Against Hate. As Martin Buber said, ‘I do not even know what it means to say that “The ends justify the means,” but I can tell you this: The means that you actually use … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Ethics, Gay Marriage, Marketing, Proposition 8, Religion
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Jonah Raskin : Class of ’09 Speaks Out on New Media
For four months, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday, freedom of speech seemed to be alive and well in an old fashioned classroom where students asked questions, talked in small groups and wrote with pens and pencils on … Continue reading
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Tagged Communications, Education, Electronic Media, New Media
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Report : Americans Now Support Progressive Ideas
“Public Opinion,” mixed media by Andrey Benyei.The results are in: Americans are now more closely aligned with progressive ideas than at any time in memory By Joshua Holland / May 30, 2009. On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of … Continue reading
The Jindal Way : Get Rid of a Good Thing
Residents at the John J. Hainkel Jr. Home and Rehabilitation Center in New Orleans.Louisiana Catastrophe Redux The administration of Governor Bobby Jindal announced its intentions to introduce legislation to sell the Hainkel Home through a press release without seeking any … Continue reading
Socialized Medicine? Canadian Health Care Saved my Father’s Life
The following anecdote about Canadian health care, about which we here in the South hear much negativity, came to me from a friend whose reliability I respect. Due to the intimate nature of the report, identifying information was removed to … Continue reading
‘Pedro’ Tancredo : GOP Mad Buffoon du Jour
Pedro Tancredo in full battle array. Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Republican attack dog Tom Tancredo calls Sonia Sotomayor a racist This is just the tip of the iceberg of a long list of hateful, insane acts and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Republican Party, Right Wing, Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Tancredo
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Labor Justice : ‘Last Vestige of Slavery and Segregation’
“Brothers of the Sun” by Luana Boutilier / Farmworker Movement …two groups of our most highly exploited workers have been denied the law’s protections — farm workers, and housekeepers, nannies, and other domestic workers. By Dick Meister / May 28, … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : Big Troubles for Big Nuke
Nuclear reactor fiasco in Oikiluoto, Finland. Four years under construction; defects multiply and price tag keeps climbing. Photo by Henna Aaltonen / The International Herald Tribune.The New York Times finally reports the economic disaster of new nukes Despite the torrent … Continue reading
Health Care Reform : Our Last Stand
Health Care for America Now This effort, in my opinion, represents our last stand to effectively combat the forces that would deny Americans decent health care merely to increase the profits of the insurance and pharmaceutical cartels. By Dr. Stephen … Continue reading
