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Yearly Archives: 2008

If the Shoe Fits Throw it

Cartoons by Ralph Solonitz / The Rag Blog Ralph Solonitz’ cartoons also appear on MadasHellClub.net The Rag Blog

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Brother: Shoe-Throwing Journalist Hospitalized After Beating

Muntazer al-Zaidi risks a miminum of two years in prison for insulting a visiting head of state. Photo by AFP.  Brother says Bush shoe-thrower in hospital after beating: ‘He has been taken to Ibn Sina hospital because he has a … Continue reading

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War Crimes Prosecutions: It’s About Us, Not Them

It’s not about them…it’s about us: Why We Must Prosecute Bush And His Administration For War CrimesBy Mike Ferner / December 16, 2008 During the rush to get the Nuremberg Tribunals underway, the Soviet delegation wanted the tribunal’s historic decisions … Continue reading

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Loving: Killing Organized Labor

Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog

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Send Your Smelly, Old Shoes to the Whitehouse

NOTE: Speaking of shoes and the White House, Skip Mendler of Honesdale, PA has a great idea. He suggests that everyone who is disgusted with the outgoing Bush/Cheney administration send a shoe to the White House. Just imagine a pile … Continue reading

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MSM Silence About Torture, War Crimes Makes Them Complicit

What I am saying here is that we need to muster all the noise we are able to bring these bastards to justice. We cannot let these crimes go unpunished. Every day, we are uncovering new revelations of the depth … Continue reading

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Autos, Plagues and Passover

Pharaoh 2 by Veronica Winters.Knowing a Pharaoh when you see one…Creating a Freedom Seder for the EarthBy Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / December 15, 2008 What do the Iraq War, the drowning of New Orleans, the collapse … Continue reading

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Robert King: An Inspiring Story of Human Survival

Robert H. King, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Prison, talks with supporters Sunday night, December 14, 2008, at a book signing party for his moving autobiography, “From the Bottom of the Heap” (PMPress, … Continue reading

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Bush : Lame Duck Ducks

‘Fortunately Bush is an expert at ducking things and both shoes zipped by, inches from his head.’ By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / December 14, 2008 Timing is everything. Sneaking out of the White House under maximum security, … Continue reading

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The Vatican: Working Their Way Back in Time

Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: roblisameehan via Flickr.Will a New Vatican Document Affect Science and Reproductive Health?By Brendan Borrell / December 12, 2008 Mischaracterizations of science lurk in the Vatican’s latest instructions on bioethics, but Catholics probably won’t follow them anyway … Continue reading

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A Neo-Con’s Take on a Not-So-Centrist Obama

Obama the transformer? I almost never agree with neo-con Charles Krauthammer on anything, but about this column, I hope he’s right. If so, it’ll open tremendous space to act, that is, if we can get our act together. Jay Jurie … Continue reading

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Iraq: A War Crime of Immense Proportions: The (Non-)Reconstruction Saga

Unbelievable: trash the nation, murdering thousands and thousands of innocent civilians, allowing the looting of invaluable artifacts, allowing ethnic cleansing to occur unabated, allowing the country to sink to Third World status, allowing basic services to vanish, allowing corrupt officials … Continue reading

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