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Perry, Beck tout selective data on Texas economyGovernor uses broad brush to paint rosy picture of state economy, skips important details By Mary Tuma / The Texas Independent / June 29, 2011 On Monday, Gov. Rick Perry appeared via satellite … Continue reading
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Glenn W. Smith : Conservative Lies About Human Nature
The “gloomy Hobbesian picture.” Graphic from Apollo.Gold.A dog-eat-dog world?Conservative lies about human nature By Glenn W. Smith / The Rag Blog / June 29, 2011 Since World War II, America’s elite policy makers have arranged and re-arranged our political and … Continue reading
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Alice Walker : Why I’m Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
Poet and Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker in Gaza City in 2009. Photo from AP / The Guardian (U.K.).Why I’m joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Pulitzer prize-winning American writer Alice Walker is on board an international flotilla of boats … Continue reading
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Environmental activist Diane Wilson — who will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio this Friday, June 24 (go to article for details) — has become a champion who “takes risks, gets bloodied and arrested, and endures jail — then … Continue reading
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Peak Driving, Peak Cars By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 22, 2011 Tell the average U.S. car owner that total driving in the USA might have already peaked forever, and they are likely to think you’re crazy. … Continue reading
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Social Security building at Rennes, France Image from Wikimedia Commons.Letters from France IV:Social security in France and the US. By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / June 22,2011 [This is the fourth in a series of dispatches from … Continue reading
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Social Security building at Rennes, France Image from Wikimedia Commons.Letters from France IV:Social security in France and the US. By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / June 22,2011 [This is the fourth in a series of dispatches from … Continue reading
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Joshua Holland : Governor ‘Goodhair’ and the ‘Texas Miracle’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Praying for a miracle.Texas is a basket case:Right-wing governance in action Conservatives claim the ‘Texas Miracle’ is a model for the nation, but it’s actually a blueprint for winning the race to the bottom. By Joshua … Continue reading
Social security in France and the US. By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / June 22,2011 [This is the fourth in a series of dispatches from France by The Rag Blog‘s David P. Hamilton.] Social security in France … Continue reading
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Robert S. Becker : The Environmental Rabble-Rousing of Diane Wilson
Environmental activist Diane Wilson in a still from the PBS documentary, Texas Gold.Eco-Outlaw Diane Wilson:The environmental rabble-rousing of an unreasonable woman By Robert S. Becker / OpEd News / June 21, 2011 Environmental activist and author Diane Wilson will be … Continue reading
BOOKS / Christine Shearer : How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth
Merchants of Doubt:How a handful of scientistsobscured the truth Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway uncover the history of a small group of Cold War scientists and advisers who battled anything, including scientific research, that might threaten their vision of American … Continue reading
With rising fuel prices a constant reminder, it is getting harder for the public to deny that we’re in big energy trouble. This is the first of three essays by The Rag Blog’s Roger Baker on “Peak oil, peak driving, … Continue reading
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