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Dick Cheney : Assassination Nation
Dick Cheney: More tales from the dark side Peter Berger, a security analyst at the American Enterprise Institute thinks that, judging from Congressional reaction, the program must have involved much more than killing some Al Qaeda people. By Sherman DeBrosse … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Cheney, CIA, Department of Defense, War Crimes
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Colombian Independence Day : Uribe and the Latin American Left
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.Colombia opens bases to U.S. military Presidents Chavez and Evo Morales of Bolivia have been especially outspoken in their criticism of President Uribe’s decision to allow U.S. bases in Colombia, and at least once he’s been called … Continue reading
Investments : Recovery Through Pinpoint Socialism
Pinpoint Socialism:Recovery through Equities, Tools, and Land By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2009 In a Friday morning appearance on Squawk Box at the Capitalism Knows Best Channel (CNBC) Warren Buffett promoted two things: a new … Continue reading
Homeless Vets and Hungry Kids? Empathy Meets Realpolitik
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Empathy Meets Realpolitik How many of our nation’s leaders have ever gone to bed hungry? U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that, ‘12.4 million children in the U.S. are “food insecure” — defined … Continue reading
Occupied Palestine: How the West Was Lost (Photo Essay by Bob Simmons)
Damascus Gate, Jerusalem. The West Bank or Judea has always tried to solve things with walls… but somehow they always fail. Photo by Bob Simmons / The Rag Blog. Occupied Palestine:How the West Was Lost (A photo essay) Words and … Continue reading
Hoosiers and Health Care : WellPoint’s Susan Bayh
Political wife: Susan Bayh, with husband Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, owns between $500,000 and $1 million in employee stock in health insurance giant WellPoint.Susan Bayh and WellPoint:What Hoosiers know about health care By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / July … Continue reading
Kate Braun: Lammas Seasonal Message
Lammas Seasonal MessageBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / July 23, 2009 “The shadows sway and seem to say Tonight we pray for water…” Saturday, August 1, 2009, is the celebration of Lammas (First Harvest, Harvest Home, Lughnasadh). This … Continue reading
COMICS / Paul Buhle : Beyond the Superhero
Pages from Die Stadt (1925), a “novel in woodcuts” by anarchist artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). Masereel’s novels are not usually treated as “comics.”Beyond the superhero With the boom in graphic novels, comics are likely to appear anywhere — sometimes lavish … Continue reading
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Steve Weissman : Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly
Rebiya Kadeer” : Her skirts are hardly snow white. Photo from the Sunday Morning Herald.Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly Rebiya Kadeer, the fascinating woman at the center of the cock-up, would never be taken for a modern-day Mata Hari. By … Continue reading
Robert Jensen on Christina Nehring : Conflicting Visions of Romantic Love
Christina Nehring. Photo by Russell Jacob / Philly.com.Conflicting visions of romantic love:A review of Christina Nehring’s A Vindication of Love By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / July 21, 2009 [A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Relationships
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