Warning to the US: beware treating Afghanistan like Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

Dandelion Salad by Patrick Cockburn The Independent 2.26.09 President Obama is likely to announce in the coming days that he will withdraw all US combat troops from Iraq by August 2010. Many of these soldiers will end up in Afghanistan where the Taliban is getting stronger and the US-backed government weaker by the day. How [...]

Kucinich on Iraq withdrawal + Paul: We Killed A Million Of Their People! + Obama Announces Iraq Troop Withdrawal

Dandelion Salad chadely2 Kucinich on Iraq withdrawal: You can’t be in and out at the same time more about “Kucinich on Iraq withdrawl: You can’t…“, posted with vodpod *** Ron Paul: We Killed A Million Of Their People!

Mosaic News – 2/26/09: World News From The Middle East

Dandelion Salad Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. linktv Mosaic needs your help! Donate here: http://linktv.org/contribute Headlines coming soon. Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani. more about “Mosaic News – 2/26/09: World News Fro…“, posted with vodpod

Baltic Sea: Flash Point For NATO-Russia Conflict by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/37592 February 27, 2009 Since the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, the third war by major Western powers against defenseless nations that had not threatened any other country (Yugoslavia in 1999 and Afghanistan in 2001 being the previous examples) in a four year span, [...]

Chip Ward: The Department of Homegrown Security

Dandelion Salad TomDispatch (Tom Engelhardt) 2.26.09 After the Green Economy, Green Security How to Build Resilient Communities in a Chaotic World Big Green Tomatoes Originally uploaded by Lorri37 By Chip Ward Now that we’ve decided to “green” the economy, why not green homeland security, too? I’m not talking about interrogators questioning suspects under the glow [...]