Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

KBR and the Army : Rewarding Incompetence and Scandal

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Ms. Sparky.Repeating bad behavior:Houston’s KBR gets $2.8 billion contract By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 7, 2010 It looks like the United States Army is incapable of learning from past mistakes. On Tuesday, the Army … Continue reading →

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Leonardo Boff : The World Society of Blindness

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Camelia Elias / FRAG/MENTS.The World Society of Blindness These are global problems that transcend our paradigm of specialized knowledge. Life does not fit into a formula, nor caring into a calculus equation. By Leonardo Boff / The Rag … Continue reading →

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Earth to Obama : Nuclear Just Can’t Cut It

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Dreamscape VII by Midnight-digital / Flickr / The End of Capitalism. Not in your wildest dreams:Five reasons nuclear just isn’t sustainable By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2010 President Obama recently announced an $8.3 billion loan … Continue reading →

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Foodie Friday : Bread, Puppets, and Boiled Veggies

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Bread and Puppet Theater. Image from Akimbo.Health care:Bread and Puppet aioli By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / March 5, 2010 See “Boil those veggies!” by Janet Gilles, Below. Anyone taking in the recent health care “debate” — in … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ : The Theory of Bagel Capitalism

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Political theory and the tower of bagel. Image from Neurotopia.Bagels and the theory of capitalist development I think Marx had a pretty good analysis of how capitalism works but even I recognize that his theory did not adequately come to … Continue reading →

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Robert Jensen : Abe Osheroff and the Struggle for a Better World

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Abe Osheroff. Image from Abrahan Lincoln Brigade Archives.‘Getting rid of hope and faith’:Abe Osheroff on the struggle for a better world By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / March 4, 2010 After a recent talk about the struggle for … Continue reading →

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Health Care : High Drama at Blair House

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Health care debate: it even hurts to listen. Image from A Blog of My Own.High drama at Blair House:The Republican response and the ‘independent voter’ By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2010 With considerable … Continue reading →

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Colombia: Six Decades of Fighting for Peace : The Paramilitary Warlords

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Colombia’s AUC forces. Photo by Eros Hoagland / Eros Hoagland Photography.A Promise of Peace:Colombia and the paramilitary warlords By Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2010 Part two: The AUC CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia — In my … Continue reading →

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Private Health Insurance : Going the Way of the Dinosaur

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE In the map above, the countries with universal health care are in blue. Those trying to get it are in green. Note that the United States proudly takes its place among the third-world countries of … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : Google Is Not God

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Illustration © 2007 by Stuart Brown / Modern Life.Google is not God:Whatever happened to privacy in America? By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2010 Google often seems to be all-powerful, and as omniscient as God himself … Continue reading →

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Gregg Barrios: Human Mother Beasts : Tales from Young Souls

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from the San Antonio Current.Human mother beasts:Tales from the young soulsIn San Antonio’s Southton By Gregg Barrios / The Rag Blog / March 2, 2010 “Rid the streets of the poet / to whom the doors are locked.” There … Continue reading →

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Wild Pitch : Jim Bunning Plays the Fool

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic by Larry Ray, with apologies to the horse. We ran this image with Larry’s March 13, 2009, Rag Blog story about Jim Bunning — but we couldn’t resist using it again.Jim Bunning of Kentucky:Completely batty his last time at … Continue reading →

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