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Harry Targ on Capitalism : How Profits Trump Safety
Image from Skeptic Cat.Collateral Damage, Dept:Of capitalism, profits, and destruction By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / July 10, 2010 I have been thinking a whole lot about the virtual destruction of the Gulf of Mexico, the rich animal … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Capitalism, Corporate Profits, Deepwater Horizon, Harry Targ, Oil Spill, Socialism
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BOOKS / Dick J. Reavis on ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains’
A worrisome message from Nicholas Carr:What The Shallows means for the left By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 10, 2010 [The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (Norton, 2010; Hardcover, … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Books, Cognition, Communications, Dick J. Reavis, Education, Ideology, Internet, Knowledge, Print Media, Psychology, The Left
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Mexican Elections : ‘Which Cartel Are You Voting For?’
“Which cartel are you voting for?” Cartoon by El Fisgon / La Jornada.‘United Cartels’ are big winners inMexico’s Super Sunday elections By John Ross / The Rag Blog / July 9, 2010 See ‘The people of Oaxaca speak’ by Victor … Continue reading
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Tagged Drug War, John Ross, Mexican Elections, Mexico, Oaxaca
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Conservative Economics : Just Plain Loco
Cartoon by Daryl Cagle / MSNBC.Still trickling after all these years…The insanity of conservative economics By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 9, 2010 Like a bunch of lemmings following each other over a cliff to disaster, conservative … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Economic Recovery, Economics, Income Gap, Labor, Ronald Reagan, Ted McLaughlin
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High Hopes Dashed : Washington Pot Campaign Fizzles
Photo by cameronpujo / Photobucket.Petition effort falls short:Pot won’t be on Washington ballot By Vernell Pratt / The Rag Blog / July 9, 2010 VASHON ISLAND, Washington — High hopes for a petition campaign to legalize marijuana in Washington state … Continue reading
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Tagged Drug Law Reform, Drug Legalization, Marijuana, Vernell Pratt, Washington
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Gulf Oil Spill : Toxic Popsicle or Extinction Event?
A speckled crab — and an American flag — are encased in a thick layer of oil just offshore from the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Photo from BP Slick.Methane in the Gulf:Is the oil spill a toxic popsicle Or … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Climate Science, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Gulf Coast, Nature, Oil Spill
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Jack A. Smith : Israel and Palestine After the Flotilla / 1
President Barack Obama walkd with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the Oval Office at the White House Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP.Part 1: Change is in the windIsrael and Palestine after the Flotilla By … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, Israel, Jack A. Smith, Middle East, Palestinian Occupation, Peace Movement
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Greg Moses : American Hindoonomics (A Mood Piece)
Lakshmi is the Hindu Goddess of wealth and prosperity, both material and spiritual. Image from Yoga USA.A Mood Piece:American Hindoonomics Comes a time as Thoreau sez when the friction invents the machine and what you smell is value turned wrong … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Economics, Greg Moses, Hinduism, Marxism, Religion, Spirituality, Thoreau
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan /13
An Afghani man sits in the rubble of Kabul, Afghanistan in 1995. Image from Countries and their Cultures.Part 13: 1992-1998A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog /July 5, 2010 [If you’re a Rag Blog reader … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Feldman, Mujahideen, Pakistan, South Asia, Taliban, Women, World History
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Baudrillard 2 : Postmodern Democracy and the End of History
BAUDRILLARD 2: Postmodern democracyand the end of history By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / July 5, 2010 “The Balance of Terror is the Terror of Balance.” (60) [This is the second of a three part series on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jean Baudrillard, Marc Estrin, Philospophy, Political Philosophy, Postmodernism
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