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Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration
The US holds 1 in 4of the world’s prisoners. What happens when you lock up 1 in every 100 American adults?By Jennifer Gonnerman The number first appeared in headlines earlier this year: Nearly one in four of all prisoners worldwide … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration, Prison Overcrowding
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Alleged Rove Threat Brings Immunity Request
Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not ‘Take the Fall’ for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says AttorneyBy Brad Friedman / July 24, 2008 Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Criminal Justice, Election Fraud, Karl Rove, Republican Party, Technology
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HEALTH CARE : Bone Density Drugs Can Do More Harm Than Good
Big Pharma Pushes Drugs That Cause Conditions They Are Supposed to PreventBy Martha Rosenberg / July 24, 2008. Yet again, women are the industry’s main targets. Like gastroesophageal reflux and bipolar disease, osteopenia began to inflict millions when a drug … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Medical Studies, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceuticals
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ECONOMICS : John McCain Has Embraced Republican Orthodoxy
The Enforcer: Ronald Reagan brought laissez-faire economics to government.Laissez-Faire Economics? It’s a Code Word for One-Sided InterventionsBy Steven Conn Steven Conn is a professor of history at Ohio State University and a writer for the History News Service. As he … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Economics, McCain, Reaganomics, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan
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O’Reilly Attacks Gore For Attending Netroots Nation
Drahn Design.‘The same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering’ On Saturday, July 19, former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance at the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, Texas. In his speech, Gore praised the gathering of … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, Fox News, Internet, Journalism, KKK, Media, Nazi Germany, Netroots Nation, Right Wing, Right Wing Media
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BOOKS : Carl Oglesby’s ‘Ravens in the Storm’
Last updated July 29, 2008 Former SDS president reflects on that organization’s stormy history at the leading edge of the sixties New LeftBy Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2008 When I joined UT Students for … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Authors, Books, Carl Oglesby, COINTELPRO, Education, Memoir, New Left, Peace Movement, SDS, Texas, The Left, UT-Austin, Weather Underground, Writers
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ART : Infinity Goes Up On Trial: The Questioning of Psychedelic Art
Janis Joplin and Tina Turner singing together at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 1969. Photo by ©Amalie R. Rothschild.Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era By Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer is a lecturer in History and … Continue reading
Replacement For ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ : ‘Don’t Care’
Congress Revisits Military’s Policy On GaysBy David Welna / July 24, 2008 More than 12,000 gay men and women have been expelled from the U.S. armed forces since the Pentagon’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” took effect 15 years … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Gay Rights, GI's, Homophibia, Homosexuality, Human Rights, U.S. Military
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Austin, 1969 : Bob Bower, Anti-War GI
Demonstration against the War in Vietnam, late sixties, Austin, Texas. Photo (c) Alan Pogue / Texas ObserverHarry the dentist demanded: ‘You know that guy?’By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2008 In the winter of 1969-70 I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, Austin, GI's, History, Peace Movement, Sixties, Texas, Vietnam
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Border Wall : Tragic Slapstick
Movable Border Wall, Clown Cars By Melissa del Bosque | July 21, 2008 The Secure Border Fence Act passed in 2006, but the Department of Homeland Security only just realized that the homeland has an international water treaty with Mexico … Continue reading
ENVIRONMENT : Russian Oil Development Threatens Belugas
A Beluga whale swims underwater in the Arctic region. What happens to the Beluga population reflects the effects global warming on the Arctic ecosystem, says Vsevolod Belkovich, a professor at the Russian Academy of Science who is leading a study … Continue reading
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Tagged Eco-Systems, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Oceans, Oil Companies, pollution, Whales
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US Military Recruits Children
“America’s Army” is a video game developed in part by the US Army to lure potential recruits.“America’s Army” Video Game Violates International Lawby: Michael B. Reagan / July 23, 2008 In May of 2002, the United States Army invaded E3, … Continue reading
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Tagged International Law, Internet, Marketing, Technology, U.S. Military, Video Games
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