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Health Care for the Rich : U.S. 50th in Life Expectancy
How can it be that 49 countries have a longer life expectancy, if we supposedly have the ‘best’ health care system in the world? It is because our system is the best only for the rich. By Ted McLaughlin / … Continue reading
The Blue-Green Alliance, and the Threat from the Populist Right
Van Jones and the Green Jobs Initiative By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / June 13, 2009 [Prepared as a Memo for the Working Class Studies Association Conference, June 6-8 2009, at the University of Pittsburgh.] 1. One of … Continue reading
Susan Van Haitsma : Biker Chick for Peace
Bikers parade down Congress Ave. in Austin during 2008 Republic of Texas Biker Rally. Photo from Panaramio.Roll on, Bikers I held a sign reading ‘Biker Chicks for Peace’… As the bikers passed by, the majority flashed peace signs back at … Continue reading
Cindy Sheehan : The ‘Myths of the Robber Class’
Rag Bloggers meet with Cindy Sheehan, June 11, 2009. From left, Former Camp Casey organizer Patrice Schexnayder, The Rag Blog’s Jim Retherford and Alice Embree, Cindy Sheehan, Rag Blog co-editor Thorne Dreyer and correspondent David MacBryde, and Chris Hargreaves of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin, Authors, Books, Cindy Sheehan, Dallas, Peace Movement, Social Activism
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Nima Shirazi: Analysing the Iranian Elections
On the Table & Off the Map: Threats, Lies, and Iranian ElectionsBy Nima Shirazi / The Rag Blog / June 11, 2009 Eight days after Barack Obama delivered his much-touted speech in Cairo, Iranians are going to the polls to … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Murders in the ‘Cathedral’
The US flag flies at half staff outside the US Holocaust Museum, a day after a security guard was killed. Photo from AFP.Murders in the ‘Cathedral’ It is clear that we need to strengthen that twinge of horror at ‘religious … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : The GOP’s Radioactive Nuclear Power Plan
A portion of a cooling tower at Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt, just after its collapse in August 2007. Earlier this year Vermont Yankee cut its power back 60% due to a radioactive leak.The GOP’s 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive … Continue reading
Holocaust Museum : Never Again?
Political cartoon by Ralph Solonitz / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2009.[Ralph Solonitz’ cartoons also appear at MadasHellClub.net.]The Rag Blog
Bishop Takes Pawn : The Real Meaning of ‘Pro-Life’
U.S. Catholic bishops listening to Pope Benedict XVI. Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images. The present effort to politicize the church and marginalize pro-choice will drive away more of the flock and quickly shed the intellectual credibility it so … Continue reading
Stephanie Chernikowski : ‘Looking at Music: Side 2’ at the MOMA
Sonic Youth. 1983. Black-and-white photograph, 11 x 17″ (27.9 x 43.2 cm). Photo by Stephanie Chernikowski / Looking at Music: Side 2 / Museum of Modern Art, New York. That is a very early shot of Kim Gordon and Thurston … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Austin, Musicians, New York City, Photographers, Photography, Punk Rock, Sixties
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Robert Jensen : Lingering White Supremacy in South Africa Feels Like Home
Sign in South Africa from the days of apartheid — the practice of racial “seperateness” that was dissolved in 1994. White supremacy, however, is not so easily dispatched by changes in laws. Photo from SouthAfrica.TO.Lingering white supremacy in South Africa … Continue reading
Health Care Reform and the Senate : Do as the Romans Did
Cicero addresses the Roman Senate in a 19th century fresco. Image from Wikipedia Commons.Cicero put the Senate itself on trial ‘…if [Gaius Verrus’] immense wealth is sufficient to shatter your honesty — well then… they will certainly know all they … Continue reading
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Tagged Cannabis, Drug Law Reform, Health Care Reform, Marijuana
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