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Loving: What Are You Looking At ?
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog
A Lesson From Canada (and Detroit) : Single Payer Health Care is Way to Go
‘Canada pays LESS for health care per person than the US — with far better results in terms of general wellness of the population.’By Tommie Sue Montgomery / The Rag Blog / December 13, 2008 See ‘If G.M. Were a … Continue reading
Sherman DeBrosse : Our Economic Trainwreck
‘The financial crisis involves a great deal more than shaky home mortgagers. The key problem is that our financial markets have been deregulated and, lacking policing, have engaged in a massive speculative binge.’ By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Economic Collapse, Economy, Financial Crisis, Great Depression
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Foodie Friday: Buckwheat Pancakes
Staff of LifeBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / December 12, 2008 I have been cooking pancakes a lot lately. Really, you need them every meal if you are avoiding wheat flour bread from the Evil Empire. Last Sunday … Continue reading
Gender Equity at UT-Austin : Still a Lot of Work to be Done
Gender equity on campus: Still a little behind? ‘Across colleges and ranks women’s salaries are lower than men’s by thousands of dollars, even when qualifications are the same.’ By Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte / The Rag Blog / December 12, … Continue reading
Bailout Bust : Southern Republicans Strike Out at Unions
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, left, listens to Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaking about the Senate’s rejection of an emergency $14 billion loan bailout for US auto companies, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Photo by Haraz N. … Continue reading
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Tagged Automobile Bailout, Automobile Industry, Congressional Bailout, Labor Unions, Republican Party, UAW
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HEALTH CARE / Western Medicine and the Dilemma of Life’s End
One version of life’s end: Charon the ferryman. I do not write these observations as a medical ethics expert, but merely as an 87 year old retired physician, a secularist, with cancer of the prostate; thus, with some insight into … Continue reading
Convictovich…
Cartoon by Ralph Solonitz / The Rag Blog The Rag Blog
Politics in El Salvador : Echos of Nicaragua
Special to The Rag Blog ‘The Salvadoran Right has capitalized on the chaos in Nicaragua to further their negative campaign to defame the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party.’ By Leah Wilson / The Rag Blog / December … Continue reading
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Tagged El Salvador, Latin America, Liberation Movements, Nicaragua, Revolutionary Movements, Sandanistas, Socialism
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Charlie Loving: And Now Chicago …
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog
Sherman DeBrosse : Big Three Bailout a Must
UAW workers picket GMC plant. Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images.An auto bridge loan is essential to reduce the pain of recession.By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2008 The U.S. economy is so fragile that … Continue reading
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Tagged Automobile Bailout, Automobile Industry, Congressional Bailout, Economic Crisis, Economy, Labor Unions, Recession
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Roger Baker : Getting a Read on this Economy Business
‘We can now observe that the creation of unlimited credit by unregulated investment banks, together with peak/near peak oil causing a steep oil price rise, is together enough to trigger a panicky deflationary spiral that has its own complex dynamics.’ … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Economic Collapse, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Peak Oil, Recession, World Economy
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