California Dreamin’: How The State Can Beat Its Budget Woes by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com July 8, 2009 “As goes California,” says the adage, “so goes the nation.” All eyes are therefore on the Golden State as it attempts to solve its $26 billion budget deficit. The world’s eighth largest economy is not going quietly into that pit of debt and [...]

Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 8 July 2009 In a major national security speech on May 21, President Obama demonstrated an unnerving ability to keep too many options on the table by proposing five possible courses of action for the prisoners at Guantánamo: release or transfer, trials in federal courts, trials in [...]

Fmr. Congressmember Cynthia McKinney Back in U.S. After Being Detained and Deported from Israel + transcript

Dandelion Salad Democracy Now! July 8, 2009 Fmr. Congressmember Cynthia McKinney Back in U.S. After Being Detained and Deported from Israel Former Congressmember Cynthia McKinney arrived back in the United States Tuesday following her deportation from Israel. McKinney was one of 21 activists seized by the Israeli military in international waters last week as they [...]

Big Brother is Watching You: Pervasive Surveillance Under Obama by Tom Burghardt

Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, July 6, 2009 Antifascist Calling… The DHS-NSA-AT&T “Cybersecurity” Partnership Under the rubric of cybersecurity, the Obama administration is moving forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on private-sector networks, including those connecting people to the Internet, The Washington Post revealed July 3.That project, code-named [...]

Top US commander: Military option against Iran on the table + “The clock is ticking”

Dandelion Salad presstv2009 July 08, 2009 America’s top military commander Admiral Mike Mullen says President Obama may send even more troops to Afghanistan than the nearly 70-thousand strong force already there, by the year’s end. Mullen says he’s also concerned about a possible Israeli military strike against Iran. Mike Kellerman reports. more about “Top US [...]