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Volkswagen Fast Tracks "One-Liter" Bullet Car
Of course it costs $30-50,000, but thats a detail. Just think of all the money you’re going to save on gasoline. Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / July 5, 2008 Laugh at high gas prices with a 235-MPG VW(Of … Continue reading
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McCain Man Charlie Black Advised Jesse Helms on Racist Campaign Tactics
Senator Jesse Helms, campaigning in Lenoir, North Carolina for the first time as a politician, spoke inside an old storefront for ten minutes before leaving town in his motor home. Photo: “Jesse” (1991) by Spencer B. Ainsley.The connection is CharlieBy … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Charles Black, Jesse Helms, McCain, Media, Racism
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Architecture-Bucky Fuller Revisited
Buckminster Fuller stampsInventor, tireless proselytizer, inspirational cult figure, something of a flimflammer. By Witold Rybczynski | July 2, 2008 The Buckminster Fuller exhibition that has just opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has already received … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Exhibitions, Inventors, Museums, People, Sixties, Visionaries
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Social Change in America : Learning from History
Populist handbills. A flyer informing workers of a meeting that was to end in the Haymarket Riotof 1886. Police were called in when fighting broke out between striking workers and strikebreakers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Haymarket, Illinois. … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, FDR, History, Labor, Labor History, Labor Unions, Left, Michelle Obama, Progressive Movement, Progressives
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Drawn and Quartered
Peter Bromhead / Dominion-Post Wellington and Sunday-Star Times / Auckland, New Zealand.The Rag Blog / Posted July 5, 2008
Fiddler Carmen Hilbert Brings Austin to Beijing
Carmen jams with a Texas touch BEIJING — From Wednesday to Sunday, Carmen Hilbert joins a collection of lone-star imports at her uncle’s restaurant, Tim’s Texas Roadhouse. Hilbert brings the music. With fiddle in hand and a guitarist for accompaniment, … Continue reading
Interview with an Outlaw Woman
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz: Roots of ResistanceBy Andrej Grubacic Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. During the first two decades of the 20th century, her paternal grandfather, a veterinarian from a Scots-Irish … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, History, Interview, IWW, Native Americans, New Left, People, SDS, Sixties, The Left, Weather Underground, Women, Women's Movement, Writers
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Photographer Dismissed for Showing GI Remains
An Iraqi boy watched, wide-eyed, as American soldiers searched for weapons and militants in Mosul after bombings. Photo by Eduardo Munoz / Reuters.IRAQ: Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in FallujahBy Dahr Jamail / July 3, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — … Continue reading
Tom Hayden on Barack Obama and the Slippery Slope
Barack at RiskBy Tom Hayden / July 4, 2008 Call him slippery or nuanced, Barack Obama’s core position on Iraq has always been more ambiguous than audacious. Now it is catching up with him as his latest remarks are questioned … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, Obama, Peace Movement, Presidential Campaign
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Reborn on the Fourth of July or Patriotism Once More Revisited
Fading GloryOn Patriotism.[revised annually on the 4th of July]By David Hamilton / The Rag Blog / July 4, 2008 Defending the patriotism of America’s internal critics is a time honored ritual, necessary because the warmongers invariably call it into question. … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
We are here to help each other get though this thing, whatever it is. Mark Vonnegut Thanks to Duncan Echelson / The Rag Blog
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Sheriff Takes Aim at Florida Peace Protesters
“If you can’t stand behind our troops, do us all a favor and stand in front of them.”–Text on t-shirt given away by Florida Sheriff. (See video.) It is absolutely NO stretch whatsoever to say that this so-called public servant … Continue reading
