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A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
The picture By David Cox / Mar 2, 2010 I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep it in your minds eye. This was a perfectly healthy 22-year-old young man who in the service … Continue reading
Utah : Challenging Women’s Rights Again
Critics fear the new law could affect women who drink and miscarry.Photo: UPPA / Photoshot.Utah women may face murder charges after miscarriages By David Usborne / February 28, 2010 Outrage at bill that could jail women who ‘recklessly’ endanger unborn … Continue reading
Harry Targ : How the Ruling Class Rules
Image from La Revue Gauche.The new class society:How does the ruling class rule? By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / February 23, 2010 The substructure In an effort to teach and reflect more systematically about class rule in the … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Economics, Harry Targ, Ruling Class, Sociology
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Health Care Blues : Citizens Suffer While Insurance Profits Soar
Photo from Public Option Health Care Now.Health care blues:Insurance profits soar, Congress fiddles,Teabaggers rail against ‘socialist’ Obama By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / February 21, 2010 As I write, we await the President’s open discussion about … Continue reading
Poor Grow Poorer : Richest 1% Has Captured America’s Wealth
The ultra rich have captured America;How can we take it back? By David DeGraw / February 19, 2010 “The war against working people should be understood to be a real war… Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Economy, Middle Class, Poverty, Taxation, Wealth
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Dick J. Reavis: ‘Catching Out’ in the Secret World of Day Laborers
Image from Portland Indymedia.Researching my new book on the job:Catching Out: The Secret World of Day LaborersBy Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / February 15, 2010 Author/activist/educator and Rag Blog contributor Dick Reavis will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Authors, Books, Dick J. Reavis, Labor, The Rag, Workers
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Karl Rove’s Revolution : Senator Brown and the Myth of the Middle
Republican strategist Karl Rove. Photo by Doug Mills / NYT.The Rovian Revolution:Why the Dems must learn from Massachusetts By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / January 22, 2010 Over the last 40 years, voter turnout has been steadily … Continue reading
VERSE / Larry Piltz : A Poem of Judicial Atrocity
Corporate zombie. Photo by Ian MacLellan / MacLellan Images. The Sniff Test[A poem of judicial atrocity] The corporate zombie creatureraises a misshapen nostrilout of the feudal muck,smells air sweet enough to fouland emerges uncontrite,lunging onto stolid groundthe mud beneath it … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Campaign Finance, Corporate Corruption, Larry Piltz, Poetry, Political Satire, Supreme Court, Zombies
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Apocalypse 2010 : Meltdown Under the American Bubble
Planet Earth was coming apart at the seams.Remembering 2010 (if we must):Mass amnesia, the Rapture,and the Palin-Bachmann nuptials By John Ross / The Rag Blog / January 4, 2010 MEXICO CITY — Book-ended by mass amnesia under the American bubble, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Future, John Ross, Political Satire, Politics
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James Retherford : Sweeping Away the Snow
Art by Mark Fiore. See link to animation below.Citizens of the earth:Best wishes in bad times By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / December 29, 2009 Pardon me if I use this greeting to sweep away the usual seasonal … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Animation, Christmas, Consumerism, Economy, James Retherford, New Years, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Dark Ages Redux : Trickle Down Feudalism
Doge Enrico Dandolo preaching the Crusade. Gustave Doré (1832-1883) / Wikimedia Commons.The reincarnation of the Dark Ages:White evangelicals are the new Crusaders In place of mote-defended castles surrounded by thatched-roof shanties will be ‘gated communities’ (sporting high-tech surveillance to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Class Warfare, Dark Ages, Economics, Feudalism, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists, World History
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