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Carter Says Goodbye to Southern Baptist Church
Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of WomenJuly 20, 2009 After more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church — and he’s decided it’s time they go their separate ways. Via … Continue reading
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A Landmark Worth Saving: The School That Ended Segregated Schools
TURNED AWAY Linda Brown was rejected when her father tried to enroll her at Sumner. Photo: Bob Pearman/Kansas City Star.In Purchase of School, Hopes of Saving a Neglected MonumentBy Susan Saulny / July 19, 2009 TOPEKA, Kan. — The classrooms … Continue reading
The Army Will Increase Its Size by 22,000
I think we would call this throwing good money after bad. A million other ways to spend it, but this is what the establishment chooses. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Iraq. Photo: Michael Kamber.Gates announces temporary increase in U.S. … Continue reading
The Health Care Stories for America Blog
Not only can you read the stories, but write one yourself on this website. It also recognizes your zip-code location when you link up so you get the immediate stories that are in and around your location. When you read … Continue reading
David Zeiger : This is Where We Take Our Stand
Episode One : For Those Who Would Judge Me This is Where We Take Our Stand A web series about Winter Soldier By David Zeiger / The Rag Blog / July 18, 2009 I am more than pleased to announce … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, Anti-War Vets, Iraq War, Video, VVAW, Winter Soldiers
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Dick Cheney Isn’t the Only One Who Planned Assassinations
When a person repeats precisely the same behaviour over and over again, but expects the result to be different, that is Einstein’s definition of insanity. Americans have been doing the same thing over and over again for 200 years, somehow … Continue reading
Juan Cole on Cheney’s Criminal Irrelevance – II
Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-UpsBy Juan Cole / July 13, 2009 It turns out that the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta cancelled, and which former VP Richard Bruce Cheney ordered hidden from Congress, was in … Continue reading
Obama’s Non-Nuclear World: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Thoughts
Hiroshima: Ten Years Later. “I’m Just Waiting For Death.” Those are the words of Mrs. Yoskio Nishikawa, 43, bedridden “A-Bomb widow” who lives on $22 a month in charity. Yukiko, 15, one of her four children, cools her forehead with … Continue reading
Food Safety Meets Organic Farming: Destroying the Conceptual Foundations by Hyper-Technologizing
Farmworkers harvest organically grown lettuce at Lakeside Organic Gardens Farm in Watsonville. Photo: Paul Chinn/The Chronicle.Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safetyBy Carolyn Lochhead / July 13, 2009 Washington — Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro … Continue reading
Obama’s Nuclear Gambit : Savvy or Softy?
Above, John Bolton: a neocon looks backward. Below, Barack Obama with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Photo by Dmitry Astakhov / AFP / Getty Images.Obama’s nuclear gambit:Cold warrior Bolton says he gave too much These views never made much sense during … Continue reading
‘Magic’ Poet, ‘Weed Ambassador’ Simon Vinkenoog Dead at 80
Poet Simon Vinkenoog, a Sixties icon. With the death of Simon Vinkenoog Amsterdam loses one more of its iconic ambassadors of the ‘Swinging Sixties’… when the Dutch capital gained its reputation as a drugs-friendly Magic Centre… By Rob Kievit / … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Deaths, Drugs, Marijuana, Poets, Psychedelics, Sixties
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