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A Triple Curse : The Corporate Climate Bill
Image from Climatico.Devil’s brew:Curse of the climate bill By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / May 4, 2010 Legend says curses come in threes. Let’s pray that doesn’t happen with the unholy trinity of the Corporate Climate Bill It … Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, Climate Legislation, Energy, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Power
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Energy Drain : Peak Oil and the Big Spill
Drill, baby, drill:Time to get serious about energy policy By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2010 Yesterday, President Obama went to Louisiana and met with officials there concerning the growing disaster caused by the explosion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Peak Oil, Ted McLaughlin
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Marc Estrin : M’aidez! M’aidez!
Cartoon by R. Crumb from Motor City Comics.M’aidez! M’aidez!The revolutionary and the stinking idolBy Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 SOS was the Morse Code signal requesting aid. Mayday became the oral radio code, probably a … Continue reading
‘We Are All Immigrants’ : 10,000 at Austin May Day March
An estimated 10,000 May Day protesters gathered at the Texas State Capitol for a rally and then marched through downtown Austin in support of immigrants’ rights. Photo by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog. Profile this: Arizona awakens a sleeping … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration, May Day, Social Protest, Thorne Dreyer
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Teenage ‘Sicarios’ : Colombia’s Child Assassins
Image from Colombia Passport.Colombia’s child ‘sicarios’:Playing with guns in real time By Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 These are not baby killers, they are babies who kill. CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia — Sicarii (Latin plural … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Abuse, Colombia, Latin America, Marion Delgado, South America, Violent Crime
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan / 3
Jews in Afghanistan became increasingly pauperized because of government monopolization of foreign trade, and all but 3-4,000 had emigrated by the 1930’s. Image from The Embassy of Afghanistan.Part 3: 1901-1924A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Feldman, Great Britain, Imperialism, Jewish History, South Asia, World History
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin on ‘The Bomb’ : Howard Zinn Speaks From the Dead
The Bomb:Howard Zinn’s last callTo rebel against war By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 The Bomb by Howard Zinn (City Lights Open Media, San Francisco, August 2010); paperback, 100 pp; $8.95. In his lifetime, Howard … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Authors, Books, Historians, Howard Zinn, Jonah Raskin, Peace Movement, World History, World War II
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John Ross : The U.S., Mexico, and the Drug War Scam
Uncle Sam: “They’re crazy if they think I won’t stick my nose into the issue of Mexican drug trafficking.” Cartoon from WeedTV.The Big Scam:How and why Washington hookedMexico on the Drug War By John Ross / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Drug War, History, John Ross, Mexican History, Mexico, Narcoguerra
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Casey Hayden in Arizona : Boycott ‘Fortress America’
Alfonso Vasquez of Phoenix lights candles during a prayer vigil at the Arizona State Capitol on April 24, protesting Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. Photo by Matt Pavelek / The Arizona Republic / AP.Boycott Arizona:Church leaders call SB 1070 ‘racist … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Casey Hayden, Immigration, Racial Profiling, Racism, SB 1070
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Austin Construction Workers : ‘No los Vamos a Olvidar’
Tom VandeStadt, pastor at the Congregational Church of Austin, addresses crowd during Austin protest. Flanking him are Cristina Tzintzún, director of the Workers Defense Project, and construction worker Gumercindo Rodriquez. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Remembering fallen comrades:Workers … Continue reading
Carl Davidson on SNCC : Blazing the Trail
Harry Belafonte addresses SNCC’s 50th Anniversary celebration at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.Civil rights pioneers: SNCC celebrates it’s 50th anniversary By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / April 28, 2010 [This article was written by Carl Davidson, incorporating … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black Power, Carl Davidson, Civil Rights, New Left, Sixties, SNCC
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Racial Profiling : What’s Up With the Mormons?
Image from Early Onset of Night.Mormons for racial profiling?Unsustainable contradictions in immigration law By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / April 27, 2010 What’s up with the Mormons? Orem, Utah legislator Stephen Eric Sandstrom last week pledged to follow … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Greg Moses, Immigration, Latinos, Mormon Church, Politics, Racial Profiling, Religion
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