Exclusive: Derivatives for Dummies by The Other Katherine Harris

by The Other Katherine Harris Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Feb. 18, 2009 Recent attempts by corporate media to explain the nature of our economic meltdown have left me ready to bite the ears off mice. They’ve been superficial, profoundly misleading and, above all, apologias for the likes of Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner. So, having spent [...]

Action Alert: Prosecuting the Bush Administration’s War Crimes, Crimes of State and Crimes against Humanity

Sent to DS from Rev. Manny, thank you. Dandelion Salad by Reverend Manny Reverend Manny and The Twilight Empire February 18, 2009 My personal Hero of the Day is H. Marshall Jarrett. Why?, you might ask. Well… Mr Jarret recently put out a report critiquing the legal advice the Bush Administration used, and created for [...]

US occupation of Iraq: An ongoing criminal enterprise by Bill Van Auken

Dandelion Salad by Bill Van Auken www.wsws.org 18 February 2009 Recent media reports on the mounting evidence of wholesale corruption in US reconstruction efforts in Iraq are symptomatic of the criminal nature of Washington’s war and occupation from their inception nearly six years ago. These crimes are continuing under the Obama administration, with no end [...]

A Day of Reckoning for the USA By Norm Lowry

Dandelion Salad By Norm Lowry http://normlowry.blogspot.com February 11, 2009 Information Clearing House February 18, 2009 “The foundation of all Mental Illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.” Carl Jung Lately, I have been inordinately baffled. The combined government & media sources of the world tell the tale of whole countries sitting on the edge [...]

Ministers ‘using fear of terror’

Dandelion Salad BBC NEWS 17 February 2009 A former head of MI5 has accused the government of exploiting the fear of terrorism and trying to bring in laws that restrict civil liberties. In an interview in a Spanish newspaper, published in the Daily Telegraph, Dame Stella Rimington, 73, also accuses the US of “tortures”. The [...]