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Bruce Melton : World Bank on Climate: ‘Turn Down the Heat’
Glacier melt. Photo by Dave Appleby / Flickr / Truthout.Is it really this bad?World Bank on climate:‘Turn down the heat’ Instead of working on climate pollution emissions reductions, we are now emitting more than was imagined in the 1998 worst-case … Continue reading
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Jaron Lanier and “digital Maoism” JARON LANIER – Photo by Robert Holmgren for Smithsonian Magazine January 2013 By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2013 Internet visionary and guru, Jaron Lanier, was central to the early development … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Black Feminist Author Beth E. Richie on Gender Violence and ‘Arrested Justice’
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Handgun control By Tony Bouza / The Rag Blog / January 15, 2013 MINNEAPOLIS — As a result of Roe v. Wade, welfare reform, and contraceptive availability, the population of young criminals you and I shaped through the hopelessness of … Continue reading
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The Hemorrhaging of America:From Charles Whitman in Austin to Adam Lanza in Newton By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / Shortly after last Thanksgiving, I was asked to write a piece about 2012, the year just ending. I got … Continue reading
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Lamar W. Hankins : A Humanist Response to the Newtown Killings
Photo by Whitney Curtis / Getty / The Guardian.A humanist respondsto the deaths at Newtown As a matter of public policy, there is no justification for allowing the widespread dispersal of semi-automatic weapons in the United States. They have done … Continue reading
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Paul Buhle : Comix Artist Spain Rodriguez (1940-2012)
Spain Rodriguez: Transforming comics. Image from CBLDF.The passing of a comix pioneer:Spain Rodriguez (1940-2012) By Paul Buhle / Dissent / December 12, 2012 In Trashman: Agent of the Sixth International, the signature saga of his early years, Rodriguez’s revolutionaries took … Continue reading
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The Jokes of Partisan Politics By Steve Russell Will Rogers, the Paint Clan Cherokee cowboy turned entertainer turned political pundit, used to say he did not make jokes. “I just watch the government and report the facts.” Like any intelligent … Continue reading
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