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Peak Oil: Will It Be Sooner Than We Expect?
Warning: Oil supplies are running out fastBy Steve Connor / August 3, 2009 Catastrophic shortfalls threaten economic recovery, says world’s top energy economist The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because … Continue reading
Derelict Auto Plants Growing in Numbers
The NY Times writers generously call these derelict plants ‘white elephants.’ Perhaps ‘capitalism’s skeletal remains’ is more accurate. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog The Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, Mich., was one of Ford’s largest and oldest facilities, but … Continue reading
Obama Administration: Continuing the Police State Mentality of BushCo
This is nothing other than shameful. This administration continues to move away from the promise of a different future, but rather marches closer and closer to fascism. The police state holds no promise. Why does Barack Obama not see this? … Continue reading
Joe Bageant: A Short History of the United States of Amnesia
The Bastards Never DieBy Joe Bageant / July 31, 2009 A short history of why we eat oil, can’t smoke pot, and why assault weapons are so expensive in our hour of need (With running commentary by THE SCREAMING MAN) … Continue reading
Christianity: Happy, Happy Hypocrisy to Live By
Christians Largely Mum on TortureBy Ray McGovern / July 31, 2009 Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey … Continue reading
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Barack, Health Insurance, and Your Best Interests
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren’t Fighting For Health Care For EverybodyBy Bruce A. Dixon / July 29, 2009 With the corporate media relentlessly distorting the public discussion around health care reform, it time for … Continue reading
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The ‘Double Consciousness’ of Race
Graphic: Blair Kelly.Meet the New Elite, Not Like the OldBy Helene Cooper / July 25, 2009 WASHINGTON — They are the children of 1969 — the year that America’s most prestigious universities began aggressively recruiting blacks and Latinos to their … Continue reading
US Military: A Little Too Big for Its Britches
National Guard (murderers) at Kent State in May 1970.The Military Is Not the PoliceJuly 29, 2009 It was disturbing to learn the other day just how close the last administration came to violating laws barring the military from engaging in … Continue reading
Didier Mainguy: Letter to The Rag
From Freakence Sixties:A Letter to The Rag By Didier Mainguy / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2009 It’s difficult to express some feelings and concepts in a foreign language. When writing in English, I’m feeling like an idiot. (I … Continue reading
Another Terrorist Attack May Put the Military in Charge
The Joint Chiefs of Staff photographed in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gold Room, more commonly known as The Tank, in the Pentagon on December 14, 2001. DoD photo by Mamie Burke.Power Shifts in Plan for Capital CalamityBy Eric Lichtblau … Continue reading
The Navajo Nation and Uranium Mining: Not a Happy Combination
Fred and Clara Slowman near their newly rebuilt home near Teec Nos Pos, Ariz. Many homes were contaminated with uranium. Photo: Kevin Moloney for The New York Times.Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo CountryBy Dan Frosch / July 26, 2009 TEEC NOS … Continue reading
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Tagged Environmental Protection Agency, Indigenous People, Nuclear Contamination, U.S. Government
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