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A Letter from Dick Motherfucker
Photo of the author by Alan Pogue.A LETTER: 211 DAYS and countingBy Dick Motherfucker / August 18, 2009 To my Compatriots, comrades, partners, friends and lovers, Some Q’s: Ain’t it about time yet? Snap out of it! How long are … Continue reading
Did Obama Make a Deal with Big Pharma?
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big PharmaBy Ryan Grim / August 16, 2009 A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort … Continue reading
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Ask Yourself, ‘How Valuable Is My Health?’
Death Panels: Let Me ExplainBy Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2009 As regular readers of these pages are aware, we seek to be a resource for information about the health care debate from an industry perspective. … Continue reading
Algae: A New Source of Alternative Energy
The Solix Biofuels plant on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado. The area averages 300 sunny days a year. Photo: Eric Draper/New York Times.A New Test for Business and BiofuelBy Kirk Johnson / August 16, 2009 IGNACIO, Colo. … Continue reading
American Ignorance or American Arrogance?
Anatomy of American IgnoranceBy Bill Noxid / August 18, 2009 It’s a full time occupation trying to unravel the reasons Americans remain in the dark. What seems (to any intelligent outside observer) like sheer stupidity and arrogance is in reality … Continue reading
David Zeiger: These Wars Aren’t Over Yet
Why We Fight from Displaced Films on Vimeo. An Open Letter to Iraq Veterans Against the War Members and SupportersFrom David Zeiger, Director of This is Where We Take Our Stand and Sir! No Sir! Dear Friends, As I write … Continue reading
Moral Relativism: We Call Our Suicide Bombers ‘Heros’
American child dressed as suicide bomber for Halloween. Photo: Source.Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western JihadBy John Feffer / August 6, 2009 The actor Will Smith is no one’s image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has … Continue reading
Exposing Lies About Canadian Health Care
Common Myths About the Canadian Health Care System Exposed By Victoria Foe / The Rag Blog / August 5, 2009 I am a dual U.S./Canadian citizen. I am American by birth. I became a naturalized Canadian in my early forties … Continue reading
The Bankruptcy of Economic ‘Theory’ Based on the Celebration of Greed
Just the Facts: Taxes, Debts, and National Prosperity By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / August 3, 2009 For the past 30 years, conservative Republicans have been able to dominate the economic policy debate by controlling the framework of … Continue reading
Peak Oil: Will It Be Sooner Than We Expect?
Warning: Oil supplies are running out fastBy Steve Connor / August 3, 2009 Catastrophic shortfalls threaten economic recovery, says world’s top energy economist The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because … Continue reading
Derelict Auto Plants Growing in Numbers
The NY Times writers generously call these derelict plants ‘white elephants.’ Perhaps ‘capitalism’s skeletal remains’ is more accurate. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog The Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, Mich., was one of Ford’s largest and oldest facilities, but … Continue reading
Obama Administration: Continuing the Police State Mentality of BushCo
This is nothing other than shameful. This administration continues to move away from the promise of a different future, but rather marches closer and closer to fascism. The police state holds no promise. Why does Barack Obama not see this? … Continue reading
