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William John Cox : Occupy Lubbock Stands Tall in Conservative Texas City
Occupy Lubbock:Occupiers in conservative Texas cityhave support of mayor, some Tea Partiers By William John Cox / Truthout / February 14, 2012 Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupations of almost every location across the nation, including Wall … Continue reading
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Walking the Walk: Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street, part one, by Dirk Nelson [Dirk Nelson recently went to the Occupy Wall Street protest, serving as a correspondent for The Ester Republic. Below is the first part of his two-part … Continue reading
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As benign as Lucifer By Richard Raznikov / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2012 Beginning about 20 years ago, it dawned on the bankers and some major corporations that if oil was a lucrative commodity water would be even … Continue reading
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BOOKS / Mumia Abu-Jamal : Days of Rage and Revolution
Author and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, is a prisoner at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.David Gilbert’s Love and Struggle:Days of rage, rebellion, and revolution By Mumia Abu-Jamal | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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BOOKS / Thom Hartmann : Jeff Clements’ ‘Corporations Are Not People’
And money is not speech:‘Corporations Are Not People’ By Thom Hartmann/ Truthout / February 1, 2012 [Corporations Are Not People by Jeffrey D. Clements (Berrett-Koehler, 2012); Paperback, 224 pp., $17.95.] Most Americans don’t realize that the idea that “corporations are … Continue reading
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By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2012 Gar Alperovitz’s book, America Beyond Capitalism, has recently been released in a second edition. The main message of the book is to describe, document and analyze the increasing failure … Continue reading
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Thousand Words Dept. : Charting Our National Debt
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Michael Grabell : How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car
Rodney Smith cleans a new Think electric car at the Magnum Drive plant in Elkhart, Ind. Photo by J. Tyler Klassen / The Elkhart Truth / AP / Pro Publica.How the stimulus revived the electric car Although electric cars would … Continue reading
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New Left icon Tom Hayden, one of America’s leading progressive activists and thinkers, was Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio for two one-hour discussions about the legacy of the Sixties era, and about contemporary American society, foreign policy, and progressive … Continue reading
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A new year of tough times ahead It is certainly legitimate to worry about the direction in which American politics is heading domestically, coupled with a probable global future of more wars, more poverty, and environmental disaster. By Jack A. … Continue reading
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While my old friend Allen was super pleased to have a mostly-negative series of sound-bites posted here (is that really all the honorable judge said, or did Jonah take snippets?) what occurred to me was 1)the paraphrasing of an old … Continue reading
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