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She’s Ba-ack! Obama Girl Strikes Again…
I’ll probably get flak for posting this, but CHILL! It’s funny! — .td / The Rag Blog Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl Obama Girl nails the Zeitgeist. As political junkies with at least an aspiration to erudition, we’ve … Continue reading
Supreme Court Inc.
How the nation’s highest court became increasingly receptive to the arguments of American business. By Jeffrey Rosen [This article first appeared in the March 16, 2008 issue of The New York Times Magazine. It’s a scary read if you’re not, … Continue reading
4,000 and No End in Sight
Coffins mark the U.S. and Iraqi dead at Austin vigil. Photo by Alice Embree.Austin vigil marks 4,000 dead.by Alice Embree / March 25, 2008 / The Rag Blog For over a month, CodePink Austin had the 4,000 U.S. dead in … Continue reading
Thank You Mr. Vice President
Project for the Old American Century. Halliburton Watch.
A McCain Moment
Do you want four more years of this?By Arianna Huffington / March 24, 2008 If our polarized country can agree on one thing, it’s that the greatest danger facing America over the next decade will not be Islamic extremism and … Continue reading
McDubya
Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog
Republican Hit? Official Spitzer Story Questioned
Republican operative Roger Stone. GOP operative wrote investigators in NovemberIn the 1970s, he was on the payroll of Richard Nixon’s now-infamous Committee to Reelect the President. In the 1980s, he helped George Bush Sr. trounce Michael Dukakis by floating a … Continue reading
4,000.
Vigil in Austin, March 24, 5 p.m. I am sorry to report that the U.S. casualty count in Iraq has just reached the sad milestone of 4,000 deaths. Please join us for a vigil to mourn these tragic deaths this … Continue reading
Freeze!
CodePink’s Medea Benjamin “freezes” at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station. (Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)Stop-Action Action By William Blum / March 23, 2008 Washington, DC – Freeze! No, it wasn’t the police or the FBI breaking into a house and yelling … Continue reading
Brian Kelly and the New SDS
“Violence doesn’t change society,” said Brian Kelly. What does, he says, is consciousness-raising, demonstrations, face-to-face meetings and radical Web sites. Photo by Michael Nagle, New York Times.To the Ramparts (Gently)By Ben Gibberd / New York Times /March 23, 2008 One … Continue reading
Hot Shots and Classic Takes
Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona shows a tattoo of Latin-American rebel Che Guevara during a press conference in Maracaibo, March 28, 2005 (Christian Veron/Reuters).
Peace, Justice AND Sustainability
Jensen: Look beyond war and peace to global justiceBy Robert Jensen / March 23, 2008 Now that we have passed the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s a good time to step back for a look not … Continue reading
