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Robert Jensen : Glenn Beck’s Redemption Song
rial in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 28. Photo by Alex Brandon / AP / Christian Science Monitor.‘Restoring honor’ in DC:Glenn Beck’s redemption song By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / August 30, 2010 About halfway through Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Glenn Beck, Political Protest, Religious Right, Robert Jensen
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Robert Jensen : Coping With Anguish
Art from toonpool.Struggling to be ‘fully alive’:Reports on coping with anguish By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / July 12, 2010 I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said many times over the centuries. That may have … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Global Crisis, Psychology, Robert Jensen, Social Change
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Robert Jensen : Emotional Reactions to Collapse
Anguish. Image from Fixing My Life.The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / June 26, 2010 We live amidst multiple crises — economic and political, cultural and ecological — that pose … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Global Crisis, Psychology, Robert Jensen, Social Change
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Robert Jensen : The Vultures and the Hawks
And the empire was off and running: The first atomic bomb (“Little Boy”) on trailer cradle in pit. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.Think outside the bomb:No nukes? No empire. By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2010 [A … Continue reading
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Tagged Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Jensen, U.S. Military
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By Robert Jensen. Baylor’s Eagleman, neuroscientist and author who works in the space between the materialist and the mystic — “where anything’s possible” — may well become “the Carl Sagan of the brain, explaining the billions and billions of neurons … Continue reading
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Robert Jensen : Holding Ourselves Accountable
Savage Chickens. Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage.Diversity dead-end:Inclusiveness without accountability By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / April 20, 2010 After a recent talk on racism and other illegitimate hierarchies at a diversity conference in Dallas, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Diversity, Patriarchy, Racism, Robert Jensen, White Privilege
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Robert Jensen : The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse
Image from Knight Science Journalism Tracker.New Storytelling and a New Story:The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / March 26, 2010 [A version of this essay was delivered as the Lawrence Dana Pinkham … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Ecology, Journalism, Media, Robert Jensen, Social Justice
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Robert Jensen : Abe Osheroff and the Struggle for a Better World
Abe Osheroff. Image from Abrahan Lincoln Brigade Archives.‘Getting rid of hope and faith’:Abe Osheroff on the struggle for a better world By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / March 4, 2010 After a recent talk about the struggle for … Continue reading
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Tagged Abe Osheroff, Activism, Peace Movement, Robert Jensen, Social Change, Social Justice
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Robert Jensen : Mainstream Media and the Conventional Wisdom
Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. His son joined the Israeli army.NY Times and Palestine imbroglio:No conflict of interest with conventional wisdom by Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / February 9, 2010 The New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Israel, Journalism, Mainstream Media, New York Times, Newspapers, Palestinian Occupation, Robert Jensen
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Robert Jensen : How the Media Has Failed Us on Haiti
CNN’s Anderson Cooper helps child hurt in rare incidence of violence in aftermath of Haitian earthquake. Great television/bad journalism:Media failures in Haiti coverage By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / January 25, 2010 CNN’s star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, Earthquake, Haiti, Imperialism, Mainstream Media, Media Criticism, Natural Disasters, Robert Jensen, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Robert Jensen : How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving
“The First Thanksgiving,” painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930) / Wikimedia Commons.How I stopped hating ThanksgivingAnd learned to be afraid This is a society in which even progressive people routinely allow national and family traditions to trump fundamental human … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Indians, Genocide, Indigenous People, Ritual, Robert Jensen, Thanksgiving
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