Torture Whitewash From The Dark Side By Pepe Escobar

Dandelion Salad By Pepe Escobar ICH April 27, 2009 “Asia Times“ It’s a script worthy of Freddie Krueger, the fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Nearly five years after the irruption of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, here’s another chamber of horrors, another glimpse of how The Dark Side [...]

From Bunker Hill to Baghdad – Pinter’s Dispatch to Obama By Mike Whitney

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney April 27, 2009 “Information Clearing House“ Come and see the blood in the streets. Come and see the blood in the streets. Come and see the blood in the streets! Poem by Pablo Neruda About a month before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, [...]

Nicaragua – A Nations Right To Survive by John Pilger (1983; must-see)

Dandelion Salad Posted previously on October 31, 2006 on my old blog. Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. FluxRostrum January 13, 2007 In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the [...]

World’s first ‘climate refugees’

Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish April 21, 2009 Environmentalists predict that climate change will affect more than 375 million people every year by 2015, due to natural disasters and rising sea levels. Thousands of people in Bangladesh are thought to be the world’s first “climate refugees” due to severe flooding. Nicolas Haque reports from Kutubdia island in [...]

Danny Schechter: US media puts US society into a cocoon

Dandelion Salad RussiaToday There are a handful of media companies in the US that tend to have one commitment: not to inform the people and serve the public, but to allow their shareholders to make money. more about “Danny Schechter: US media puts US soc…“, posted with vodpod