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The Right Wing Vision of the Future
I received this unsolicited from someone identified as Linda Hunnicutt. I thought it suitable to share because it is such a fear-filled (and racist) image that the right insists on painting. Some of the statements are truly remarkable. Richard Jehn … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Needless Civilian Death Continues
It is time to start acknowledging the lies of the Obama administration. They will close Guantanamo, but the military tribunals will resume shortly (they will be more “humane and effective”). They will stop the Iraq war, but the civilian murders … Continue reading
Life During Wartime : Ode to a Changed Mind
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThanks to Dr. S.R. Keister /The Rag Blog
Sy Hersh : Children Sodomized at Abu Ghraib as Mothers Watched
Updated May 18, 2009 Journalist Seymour Hersh says there were ‘horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.’ Hersh gave a speech. . . to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front … Continue reading
Singin’ on Thursday: Leonard Cohen, Poetic Master
Thank You Leonard CohenBy Joel Hirschhorn / May 14, 2009 The other night I went to a Leonard Cohen concert. I have never seen a huge audience over a very broad age spectrum so completely enraptured, impassioned and wild over … Continue reading
Obama Administration Will Continue Massive Secret Budgetary Outlays
“The Black Hole” NSA headquarters, Ft. Meade, Maryland.Big Increases for Intelligence and Pentagon “Black” Programs in 2010By Tom Burghardt / May 13, 2009 Continuing along the dark path marked out by his predecessors in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama’s … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, National Security Agency, Obama Administration, U.S. Military
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Health Care Profiteers : This Won’t Hurt a Bit
Graphic from ISIPS.The fight for real health care reform We are being outspent by billions of dollars by the amalgam of well heeled interest groups that will benefit financially from maintaining the status quo. By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Universal Health Care
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Dick Cheney: The Dangerous Legacies Live On
The hidden hand of Dick CheneyBy Juan Cole / May 13, 2009 Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality — and his vision of an imperial presidency — and there are signs he is succeeding. … Continue reading
William Blum: On Enhanced Interrogation, Enhanced Explosive Devices, and Other Matters
An “enhanced explosive device” in action, aka the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The picture was taken from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack.The Anti-Empire Report: Some thoughts about torture. And Mr. Obama.By William … Continue reading
If We Can’t Have a Good Laugh, What Do We Have?
Source / Cracked.com Thanks to Leslie Sklar / The Rag Blog
BOOKS / Eric Boehlert’s ‘Bloggers on the Bus’
It’s a very fast, entertaining read, and since it focuses (almost) exclusively on the liberal blogosphere it mostly avoids the sense of triumphalism you might get in a more partisan book. By Kevin Drum If you’re interested in the political … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogosphere, Books, Electronic Media, Internet, Journalism, Netroots, Obama Campaign
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UT Medical Branch Researcher on Take from Pharma?
Republican U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley challenges researcher’s connections to Pharma. Photo from RFE/RL.HHS probes researcher’s ties to drugmakers [Sen.] Grassley claims that [Karen] Wagner got more than $160,000 from GlaxoSmithKline over five years, and she only reported $600 to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Campuses, Galveston, Medical Research, University of Texas
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