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BOOKS / Caliban and the Witch : The Creation of Capitalism
Who Were the Witches?Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009 This Halloween season, there is no book I could recommend more highly than Silvia Federici’s brilliant Caliban and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Capitalism, Catholic Church, European History, Patriarchy, Sexism, Social Movements, Witches
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Sherman DeBrosse : Pipeline Politics and the Afghanistan War
Worth all the blood?The Trans Afghanistan Pipeline By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009 President Barack Obama recently honored eighteen fallen American soldiers at a midnight ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Let us … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan Pipeline, Bin Laden, Bush Administration, Energy, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Alice Embree : Here’s to the Soldiers of Fort Hood
Jackie Thomas at Under the Hood Coffeehouse near Ft. Hood. Photo by Cynthia Thomas / The Rag Blog. Thoughts of Charles Whitman on the tower,And the soldiers who come back broken from war Bring the troops home and take care … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War GIs, Central Texas, Ft. Hood, Peace Movement
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New Urbanism : Transportation Fantasia in Central Texas
Cloning the evil broom:Kirk Watson and the New Urbanists By Glenn Gaven / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009 In the movie Fantasia, Mickey chops the evil broom into bits only to have them transform into a whole army … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Central Texas, Glenn Gaven, Kirk Watson, Transit, Transportation, Urban Planning
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Roger Baker : Debunking the Vaccine Scare
Graphic by David Dees / deesillustration.comSwine flu vaccine: The facts behind the kerfuffleBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 5, 2009 Are the big pharmaceutical companies endangering our health with risky things like swine flu vaccine? Maybe vaccines … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy, Medicine, Science, Scientific Research, Swine Flu
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Barack Obama : Stop the Runaway Train
President Obama: Stop the runaway train of globalization.Long range strategic innovation: Globalization, the financial crisis, environmental planning, and getting out of Afghanistan By Ray Reece / The Rag Blog / November 5, 2009 Call this a lesson in how to … Continue reading
Columbia Military Pact : The Yanks are Coming
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe defends military pact with U.S. Photo from AFP.U.S. and Columbia:Military pact signed in ‘private’ meeting Over There, Over ThereSend the word, send the word,Over ThereThat the Yanks are coming,The Yanks are coming,The drums rum tumming everywhere… … Continue reading
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Tagged Central America, Colombia, Imperialism, Latin America, U.S. Military
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Claude Lévi-Strauss : ‘La Pensée Sauvage’
Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss: dead at 100.Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss:Making sense of la pensée sauvage By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / November 4, 2009 In French sauvage means wild, not necessarily savage. In our language savage means aggressive, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, Culture, Deaths, Mythology, People, Primitive Peoples, Science
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Harry Targ : Legitimacy Crisis and the Vietnam Syndrome
Public suspicion of government on the rise:The return of the Vietnam Syndrome By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2009 I teach a course on United States foreign policy. I was just finishing up a discussion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, American History, American Society, Social Change, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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Robert Jensen : War, the Ecology, and the Quest for Justice
Professor Robert Jensen.War, ecological crises, and the quest for justice:An interview with Robert Jensen If you feel overwhelmed, it’s because we face an overwhelming situation. By Calvin Sloan / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2009 [The following is an … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Austin, Capitalism, Climate Change, Ecology, Energy Crisis, Journalism, Peace Movement, Social Change, UT-Austin
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Hall of Fame Concerts : Rocking the Garden!
Hall of Fame rock ‘n rollers: Bono and Mick Jagger. Photo from Mirror, U.K.Hall of Fame benefit: Taking rock and roll to a new level By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2009[With Gary Baumgarten and Abbie … Continue reading
Health Care Naysayers : Please Get the Message
Saying it all in sixty seconds:Health care reform is a human issue By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / Novemeber 3, 2009 I just saw a TV health care message that sensitively illustrates what is happening to too many … Continue reading
