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Texas Gov. Perry : Secessionist With His Hand Out
Tea partiers in Denton, Texas. Photo by josh Berthume / The Texas Observer.‘According to FEMA’s website, Texas has been the site of 13 “major disaster declarations” since Perry took office… since FEMA’s record-keeping began, Texas has received federal disaster assistance … Continue reading
Dick J. Reavis on Mark Rudd’s ‘Underground,’ and the 1969 SDS Split
Bernardine Dohrn, of the Radical Youth Movement faction of SDS — and later of Weatherman — addresses the SDS convention in Chicago in 1969, at which the Progressive Labor Party was “expelled.” Mark Rudd, author of Underground, is to Dohrn’s … Continue reading
Dana Cloud : Identifying the Real David Horowitz
David Horowitz, a prominent neo-conservative writer, activist and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, claims that UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union supports terrorism against Jews. Photo: Sandra Lee.The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built: The Cases of Margo Ramlal Nankoe, William … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Freedom, Conservatives, Neocons, Red-Baiting, Texas, UT-Austin
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Honeybees Are Remarkable for Lots of Reasons
Honey bee nectaring on button willow.Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Department of Entomology.Let’s Hear It for the BeesBy Leon Kreitzman / April 28, 2009 Gardeners know that plants open and close their flowers at set times during the … Continue reading
There Is More Than One Way to Interpret Ahmadinejad
On Ahmadinejad and Progressive MyopiaBy Nima Shirazi / The Rag Blog / April 29, 2009 Please see links to previous Rag Blog posts on this subject, Below. Whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a public appearance, the airwaves, papers, and … Continue reading
Drug Company Gifts to Doctors: Staunching the Flow
Group Advises Stopping Flow of Gifts to DoctorsBy Gardiner Harris / April 28, 2009 WASHINGTON — In a scolding report, the nation’s most influential medical advisory group said that doctors should stop taking much of the money, gifts and free … Continue reading
Swine Flu and the Monstrous Power of the Livestock Conglomerates
The nature of the livestock industry has been transformed dramatically. Photo by Oleg Popov / Reuters.The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry’s monstrous power The Mexico swine flu outbreak should alert us to a highly globalized industry with … Continue reading
Republicans Blocked Pandemic Preparedness from Stimulus Bill
Susan Collins brags that she led the fight to strip the stimulus bill of pandemic preparednes. Here she shares inanities with President Bush in 2008. Photo by Ron Sachs / Getty Images North America.GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness Every discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Economic Stimulus, Public Health, Republican Party, Swine Flu
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US Torture: Best al Qaeda Recruiting Tool
Major Matthew AlexanderTorture? It probably killed more Americans than 9/11By Patrick Cockburn / April 26, 2009 The use of torture by the US has proved so counter-productive that it may have led to the death of as many US soldiers … Continue reading
Tancredo Confrontation at Chapel Hill : An Inside View
Former Republican Conressman Tom Tancredo is confronted by demonstrators at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus Tuesday night, April 14, 2009. Photo by Sam Wardle / IndyWeek.com. Vocal demonstrators in Chapel Hill, N.C., shut down a campus appearance by … Continue reading
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Tagged Campuses, Racism, SDS, Social Protest, Student Activism, White Supremacists
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Conspiracism, Right Wing Populism and Alex Jones
Art by Andy B. Clarkson / Kenny’s Sideshow The following column by John Zorabedian on the mushrooming and quite frightening growth of “conspiracism” was passed along to us by Carl Davidson. It was first published on Examiner.com on April 11, … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy Theories, Populism, Racism, Right Wing, Right Wing Media, Talk Radio
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Ewwwww !! Tea-Baggin’ Parties
Source / Daily Kos Thanks to Keith Joseph / The Rag Blog
