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The Way We Were By Chellis Glendinning / The Rag Blog / I plopped down onto the sidewalk in the first row of cross-legged protestors, eye-level with the shin-guards of the first row of National Guardsmen. My hair dropped down … Continue reading
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Margarita Alarcón : Obama sans Osama
Obama sans Osama:Now let’s see some ‘hope’ By Margarita / The Rag Blog / I was on my way to the beach on Monday afternoon when I heard the news this week. I have no internet at home and had … Continue reading
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Stoney Burns, a Sixties icon who was a pioneer in the underground press in Texas, died of a heart attack in Dallas on April 28, 2011, at the age of 68. Burns, who was called “King of the Hippies” by … Continue reading
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The One Percent By William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog / April 29, 2011 Jamie Johnson has a conscience if he can keep it. He is heir to one of the largest fortunes in America: Johnson and Johnson. In … Continue reading
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Josh Harkinson : The Making of Michael Dell
Illustrations by Jason Schneider / Mother Jones.Michael Dell:The making of an American oligarch How a homegrown geek outsourced, downsized, and tax-breaked his way to the top. By Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones / April 20, 2011 Before he became the … Continue reading
One Hundred and Fifty Years After General Strike, Bay Area Workers Still Fighting for JusticeThursday 21 April 2011by: David Bacon, Truthout SAN FRANCISCO — In the 150-year history of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the watershed event was … Continue reading
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Growing the War in Libya By Steve Weissman, RSN Special Coverage: Egypt’s Struggle for Democracy If America and its NATO allies flew into battle over Libya to prevent a bloodbath in Benghazi, as President Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron of … Continue reading
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Emily Hellewell : Public Radio and the West Texas Wildfires
The Southwest Incident Management Team conducted burnouts April 19 near the McDonald Observatory in far west Texas. Photo by Frank Cianciolo / McDonald Observatory / Marfa Public Radio.Why public radio maters:Marfa station is critical resourceduring west Texas wildfires By Emily … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadcast Media, Marfa, Natural Disasters, NPR, Public Radio, West Texas
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John Aloysius Farrell : The Koch Brothers’ Web of Influence
Koch Inc., headquartered in Wichita, Kan., spends tens of millions of dollars to lobby Congress and federal agencies on issues ranging from oil and gas to the estate tax. Photo by Larry W. Smith / AP.The Koch brothers’ web of … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Global Warming, Koch Brothers, Lobbyists, pollution
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SCIENCE / AFP : Brain Structure Differs in Liberals, Conservatives
Illustration by Yakobchuk Vasyl / The Independent.It’s all in your head! New study shows liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain related to understanding complexity, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section linked to … Continue reading
The Neurotic Northamerican Presidential Security By Leonardo Boff / The Rag Blog / April 10, 2011 Many of us have known what the ideology of national security meant under the Latin American military dictatorships. The security of the State was … Continue reading
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Louis Bergeron : A Practical Vision for Global Sustainable Energy
L.A. Cicero Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering At Stanford University. Photo from L.A. Cicero.It will take concerted effort:A practical vision for alternative energy By Louis Bergeron / Stanford Report / April 7, 2011 A new study … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Clean Energy, Environment, Future, Stanford University, Sustainability
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