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Health Care and Senator Baucus : Channeling Emile Zola
Psychiatrist Dr. Carol Paris is arrested for disorderly conduct outside of a U.S. Senate office building Tuesday, May 5, for speaking out at Sen. Max Baucus’ Congressional hearings on health care reform. Photo from South Maryland News. Dr. Carol A. … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Direct Action, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Social Protest, Universal Health Care
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Dick J. Reavis : The Narco Republic of Texas
Cool beard, chief. David Gouverneur Burnet was the first president of the original Republic of Texas. The Rag Blog’s Reavis has some ambitions of his own. Photo from Daughters of the Republic of Texas. If Texas were an independent nation, … Continue reading
GI Victor Agosto : ‘There is No Way I Will Deploy to Afghanistan’
Victor Agosto with fan club at opening of Under the Hood Cafe in Kileen, Texas, on March 1, 2009. Photo by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog.To Victor Agosto, Ft. Hood, Texas: ‘You will deploy in support of OEF on … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alice Embree, Anti-War GIs, Ft. Hood, Peace Movement, U.S. Military
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Not Samuel Clemens : Blue Dog Diary
Image of Samuel Clemens from Vintage Memorabilia During my days in college at Virginia Beach I learned quite early that one should beware of certain American writers such as Twain, Upton Sinclair, and John dos Pasos, who were in favor … Continue reading
Swine Flu Redux : We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet
Doctors and nurses treat patients at a tent hospital for influenza victims in Lawrence, Mass., in 1918. Archive photo from Hartford Courant. The outbreak in the Spring of 1918 was not the huge killer. It came back in a second … Continue reading
Susan Van Haitsma : The Planet’s Imperative: Stop War, Shine On
Graphic from Neoformix. The life of our planet must not be a flash in the pan, a brief streak of light in time’s expanse. Our ancient Mother deserves a future of infinite history, and so do we, her youngest children. … Continue reading
Farewell to Space Junk? Satellites With Sails?
Space Junk. Space debris seen from outside geosynchronous orbit. Photo from Wikipedia Commons. With much of our new technologies being dependent upon satellites, a solution to the problem of the proliferation of space junk must be found. By Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
Life During Wartime : Condi on Torture
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThe Rag Blog
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Tagged Cartoon, Condoleezza Rice, Political Satire, Torture, War Crimes
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May Day Special : Carl Davidson on Socialism in Today’s Society
May Day poster from Holt Labor Library. …in light of the faux ‘socialisms’ bandied about in the headlines and sound bytes of the mass media in the wake of the financial crisis, especially the absurd claim in the media of … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: Garlic Time
Garlic: This bud’s for you.By Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / May 1, 2009 The new young garlic is coming in now, and now is the time to discover its delicate yet tremendous support for your favorite recipes. Here … Continue reading
The Swine Flu Scare, and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Masked Albertan farmworkers during 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic. Photo from Wikipedia Commons. When the deaths began to pile up, and most of those affected were young healthy people, just like the Spanish flu, it is easy to see how the … Continue reading
Larry Ray : Facing Extinction? Grand Old Party Blues
(Only slightly defaced) Mad Hatter Tea Party Engraving by Sir John Tenniel. Senior Republican Senator Arlen Specter’s recent defection from the GOP to the Democratic Party has caused an uproar in the toxic hard-core of the remaining Republican party. But … Continue reading
