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Franklin Rosemont, Surrealist Author, Artist and Activist, 1943-2009
Franklin Rosemont at Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) National Convergence in Chicago, November 9-11, 2007. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Franklin Rosemont, surrealist revolutionary, died Sunday, April 12, at the age of 65. Franklin, 65, came from … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Deaths, IWW, MDS, SDS, Sixties, Social Activism, Surrealism, The Left
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Health Care : ‘I Was Sick and Ye Visited Me’
‘Country Doctor Ernest Ceriani Making House Call on Foot in Small Town.’ Photo by W. Eugene Smith / Life Magazine Archives. Here we are in 21st Century America and health care must be rationed out to the population by money-driven … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Medicine, Single Payer, Universal Health Care
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Roger Baker : The Reality of ‘Peak Oil,’ Part 2
ASPO USA. Peak Oil is the point at which the total world oil production reaches its high point and finally starts to decline… We at last have some pretty convincing data to indicate that world oil production probably peaked forever … Continue reading
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Tagged Financial Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Oil Production, Peak Oil, World Economy
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Dick Cheney : A Political Madness
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. (Thanks to Hieronymus Bosch for the look into Dick’s Dark Brain.) Dick Cheney is sadly childlike in his petulant public outbursts. There is a mad gleam in his eye as he insists … Continue reading
Wall Street and the Pentagon : Greed and its Delusions
Greed and its requisite delusions. Art by Tom Payne / Eyeball Press. At the heart of both scams is the deliberate corruption of information on such a vast scale that it overwhelms the mind of the educated layman to make … Continue reading
Religious Right Concedes Defeat!
‘Armageddon for the Religious Right.’ Art by Matthew Bors / Orlando Weekly. America’s religious Right has conceded that the election of US President Barack Obama has sealed its defeat in the cultural war with permissiveness and secularism. By Alex Spillius … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Evangelical Christians, Obama Presidency, Religious Right
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Republicans’ New Line : Obama a Dangerous Polarizer
Republicans dig up Newt Gingrich playbook: Turning back the clock. Now that Obama has been in office over seventy days, the second phase of the strategy has been unveiled as Republicans across the board suggest that he is a divider … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Obama Administration, Republican Party, Right Wing
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Mad at Michele : Pesticide Companies Miffed at White House For Organic Garden
After President Obama was elected, and even before the magnitude of the recession became apparent, there was a push from community food activists to plant a “Victory Garden” on the South Lawn of the White House. Led by Roger Doiron, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Locklear, Michele Obama, Organic Gardening, Sustainability
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Leon Panetta’s CIA : Getting Away With Torture
CIA Director Leon Panetta at his ceremonial swearing-in on Feb. 19, 2009. Photo by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters.Hope Abandoned:Obama Protects CIA Torture Memos By Chris Floyd / April 11, 2009 It was obvious from the moment that Barack Obama appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, CIA, Leon Panetta, Obama Administration, Torture, War Crimes
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin on The Peep Diaries
To Peep or Not to Peep? That is the Question By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / April 11, 2009 [The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, by Hal Niedzviecki, City Lights.] In … Continue reading
Alice Embree : Easter Weekend at the Ranch
Alice Embree, with Jeff Shero (left) and Duncan Echelson, shown at LBJ Ranch during a peace vigil on Easter in 1965. This UPI telephoto was reproduced in Prairie Radical, a memoir by former Austin activist Robert Pardun.An Activist History of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin, Iraq War, Peace Movement, SDS, Social Action, Student Movement, Texas, Vietnam
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Kos : The Newspaper Execs’ Hissy Fit
Newspaper, aka the “Dinosaur Blog.” Graphic from Exhibit 5a. The industry’s woes are self-inflicted, and its continued arrogance and superiority complex continue to blind its executives from potential solutions in a world where quite frankly, they are no longer quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogosphere, Creative Commons, Google, Intellectual Property, Journalism, Mainstream Media, News Aggregators, Newspapers
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