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Mike Lofgren : Why I Left the GOP Cult
Image from Gunaxin.Goodbye to all that:Reflections of a GOP operative Who left the cult By Mike Lofgren / Truthout / September 5, 2011 Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah — only you’re a little more rotten.” — Double … Continue reading
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The Help, the blockbuster movie about the relationship between a young white woman and her black maids in 1963 Mississippi, has stirred up a bit of controversy, with some calling it “clichéd” and “condescending.” But writer Casey Hayden, who was … Continue reading
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Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule (section 2) The hidden history of Texas Part 3: The 1827-1836 years under Mexican rule By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2011 [This is the … Continue reading
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We hear a lot today about free trade and free enterprise, which, according to The Rag Blog’s Ted McLaughlin, are today’s code words for unregulated capitalism. “In a capitalist society such as ours the wealth will be redistributed to the … Continue reading
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Michael Winship : Rick Perry’s Texas Tall Tales
Pecos Perry? Art from vintage childrens book via saltycotton / Flickr. ‘Emperor in a fig leaf’: Rick Perry’s tall tales of Texas By Michael Winship / Truthout / August 28, 2011 Although born and raised in a small town in … Continue reading
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Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule (section 1) The hidden history of Texas Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 16, 2011 [This is the … Continue reading
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The Rag Blog Presents : Carl Davidson on Mondragon and Workers’ Cooperatives
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE The Rag Blog, Rag Radio, and the New Journalism ProjectPresent Noted Writer and Political Activist Carl Davidson:‘Mondragon and the Workers’ Cooperative Movement’A Multi-Media Presentation Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, 7-10 p.m.At 5604 Manor Community Center,5604 Manor … Continue reading
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In case you missed them. These pictures of Rick Perry as an Aggie cadet and as a Texas A&M student, decked out in lettered cardigan (with Reveille at his feet), are absolutely priceless.
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Sarito Carol Neiman provides some valuable perspective on Rick Perry and his “Texas Miracle.” One gem: a New York Times columnist in 2003 reported that one manufacturer — notorious for its Dickensian record on workers safety — said they’d only … Continue reading
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Attorney Raznikov, who was involved in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964, remembers how the news reporting distorted the events in which he participated. He then looks at the recent London “riots” and, in examining their underlying causes, … Continue reading
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A Word From Our Sponsor(s) By Richard Raznikov / The Rag Blog / August 17, 2011 The first time I personally experienced the unreliability — i.e. lies — of the media was as a freshman at U.C. Berkeley in October … Continue reading
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The hidden history of Texas Part 2: The 1821-1826 years under Mexican rule By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 16, 2011 [This is the second installment of Bob Feldman’s new Rag Blog series on the hidden history … Continue reading
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