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Silver Lining Dept : The Upside of $4 Gas
Five Reasons to Love $4 GasJuly 16, 2008 Sure, it’s ruining the global economy and making everyone miserable, but there’s an underappreciated upside to the high price of oil. 1. The mass transit boom What’s happening: From 2000 to 2005, … Continue reading
Exclusively Using the Wind for Power
Missouri’s turbines will provide electric service for at least 20 years, the expected lifetime of the wind-to-power devices. Photo: Steve Morse, MU Cooperative Media GroupFirst US Town Powered Solely by WindBy Andrea Thompson / July 15, 2008 Rock Port, Missouri … Continue reading
A Bit of Justice Concerning BushCo Secrecy
White House Loses Appeal to Keep Visitor Logs Secretby Jason Leopold / July 15, 2008 The White House lost an appeal to keep secret visitor logs containing the identities of evangelical Christian leaders who visited the White House and Vice … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Cheney, Homeland Security, Transparency, U.S. Government
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Drawn and Quartered
The Rag Blog / Posted July 15, 2008
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Tagged Cartoon, Humor, Journalism, McCain, Media Bias, Obama, Satire
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Phil Gramm : Don’t Worry, Be Happy
But it’s actually Wall Street where they’re whining. Or, shall we say, panicking?By William Greider / July 14, 2008 Phil Gramm, the senator-banker who until recently advised John McCain’s campaign, did get it right about a “nation of whiners,” but … Continue reading
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Jim Hightower on Pot
Sharing his thoughts on pot, that is…July 14, 2008 Watch the Marijuana Policy Project’s Profiles in Marijuana Reform interview with author and national radio commentator, Jim Hightower in the video above. This is a project of MPP.tv. Here’s more from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Health Care, Drug War, Drugs, Health Care, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana
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FILM : Hollywood’s Response to War
How Vietnam Gave us Dude, Where’s My CarBy Michael Bronski One of the most amazing cultural responses to the war against Iraq has been the plethora of documentary and feature films produced by independent companies and even Hollywood studios. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, Filmmakers, Hollywood, Independent Film, Iraq War, Popular Culture, Vietnam
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South African Human Rights Activists Shocked By Palestinian Refugee Camp
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant Hani Al-Kabi who was killed in an Israeli army raid in the Balata refugee camp, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Nablus, Friday, April 18, 2008. Photo … Continue reading
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Tagged Apartheid, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Nelson Mandela, Palestine, Refugees, South Africa, West Bank
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Karl Rove : FOX in the Hen House?
Here is a succinct statement of what’s wrong with The System, as we used to call it. Karl Rove is an election analyst for Fox News. “Fox News host Chris Wallace also came to Rove’s defense, asking rhetorically, ‘Why it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Corporate Media, Fox News, Journalism, Karl Rove, Media, Media Bias, Right Wing Media, White House
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Could Alabama Gov. Siegelman Bring Down the House of Cards?
Former Alabama govenor Don Siegelman accompanied by his wife Lorie reports to the Federal building in downtown Tuscaloosa in 2004.Gov. Siegelman at Netroots Nation: Bush’s Undoing?By Sam Seder / July 14, 2008 As more and more corruption and law breaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Campaign Tactics, Corruption, Dirty Tricks, Karl Rove, Netroots Nation
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Clear-Cut Logging: Not Such a Good Thing
The aerial photo of the bare slope and slide areas in the Stillman Creek drainage raised concerns at Weyerhaeuser, enough so that corporate officials did their own flyover, scouting landslides there and elsewhere in the Northwest. Photo: Steve Ringman, Seattle … Continue reading
The Court Decision Disappointed Even the Victors
Decisions Shut Door on Bush Clean-Air StepsBy Felicity Barringer / July 12, 2008 Any major steps by the Bush administration to control air pollution or reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases came to a dead end on Friday, the combined result … Continue reading
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