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Al Franken’s Victory : Remembering Paul Wellstone’s Convenient Death
Wellstone was pulling ahead in the polls, and the victory of a man who voted against the war resolution would have been a great embarrassment to the Bush administration. This was a convenient death. By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Conspiracy Theories, Paul Wellstone, Progressive Democrats
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Remembering Tom Bernard : The GI Movement Against the War in Vietnam
David Zeiger with active duty GI’s at Armed Farces Day, 1971, Killeen, Texas, home of Ft. Hood. Photo from Displaced Films. Tom Bernard, 60, died Dec. 27. 2008. As an active duty GI in Vietnam, Tom was part of WORMS … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anti-War GIs, Peace Movement, Sixties, Vietnam, VVAW
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Bush/Cheney : The Makeover and the Two Myths
Torture saved us and the surge worked. Not.By Robert Parry As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make their case for some positive legacy from the past eight years, two arguments are playing key roles: the notion that torturing terror … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bush Legacy, Bush Presidency, Cheney, George W. Bush, The Presidency, The Surge, Torture, War on Terror
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Obama Speech : You Read it Here First
Leaked: ‘The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.’By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / December 24, 2008 So it … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Jimmy Carter, Obama Inauguration, Ronald Reagan
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Our Economic Trainwreck : Retooling the Engine
The Wrecked Economy: What Could Be Tried?By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / December 18, 2008 [This is the final installment in a three-part series on the economy by The Rag Blog’s Sherman DeBrosse.] A new approach to the … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Economic Recovery, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Financial Crisis
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Sherman DeBrosse : Our Economic Trainwreck
‘The financial crisis involves a great deal more than shaky home mortgagers. The key problem is that our financial markets have been deregulated and, lacking policing, have engaged in a massive speculative binge.’ By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Economic Collapse, Economy, Financial Crisis, Great Depression
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Odetta : Bid Farewell to Another Legend
Odetta at Radio City Music Hall in New York for a “Salute to the Blues” Benefit concert in 2003Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 77. Photo by Nancy Siesel / NYT.‘Her voice plunged deep and soared high, and … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Folk Music, Musicians, Peace Movement, People, Political Activists, Sixties
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Beyond the Bailout State : Empire of Depression
‘What kind of new administration could actually get beyond Roosevelt’s era as well as our own staggering disaster, leaving “the bailout state” behind us?’By Tom Engelhardt / December 1, 2008 See ‘Roosevelt’s Brain Trust vs Obama’s Brainiacs’ by Steve Fraser, … Continue reading
The Mamas and the Papas : Vintage Rockers with their Parents
Frank Zappa and the folks. Photos by John Olson / Life Magazine. David Crosby standing with father Floyd at dad’s place. How very cool. Sixties/seventies rockers with their families. These photos, from the archives of Life Magazine, show rock luminaries … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Music, Musicians, Popular Culture, Rock 'n Roll, Seventies, Sixties
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Foreclosure Chronicles : The Desperate Hours of Addie Polk
1918: Bathing suit parade, the year Addie Polk was born.1919: Race Riots in Chicago. 2008: Fannie Mae foreclosed on the home of Addie Polk; Annie Mae Polk put a gun to her chest.‘In 1970, Robert and Addie Polk bought a … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American History, Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Economic Crisis, Foreclosures, Housing Crisis
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Hayden, Dohrn, Joseph : 1960s Radicals Predict Rebirth of Social Activism
1960s Radicals Predict Rebirth of Social Activism By Manny Fernandez | November 7, 2008 See ‘DAVID FENTON: Eye of the Revolution’ with vintage photo of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, Below. Nothing is more non-nonconformist than a nearly two-hour panel … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, LNS, New Left, Photography, SDS, Sixties, Social Activism, The Left, Tom Hayden
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