Let The Sun Shine In: California Could Be The Golden State Again by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com July 13, 2009 Four Wall Street banks, which received $15-25 billion each from the taxpayers, have rejected California’s IOUs because the State is supposedly a bad credit risk. The bailed out banks would seem to have a duty to lend a helping hand, but they say [...]

I’ve Seen 1,200 Torture Photos By David Swanson

Dandelion Salad By David Swanson ICH July 13, 2009 “Democrats.com“ This moment, in which the Attorney General of the United States claims to be considering the possibility of allowing our laws against torture to be enforced seems a good one in which to reveal that I have seen over 1,200 torture photos and a dozen [...]

What Sotomayor Could Mean for Network Neutrality and the First Amendment + Franken

Crossposted with permission from The Free Press. Dandelion Salad By Marvin Ammori Save the Internet July 13, 2009 Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will ask Judge Sonia Sotomayor questions this week and has said he will ask about network neutrality. As the Daily Show once explained, “network neutrality” is [...]

Will Eric Holder Be The Anti-Torture Hero? by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 13 July 2009 In an important article for Newsweek, “Independent’s Day,” Daniel Klaidman manages not only to present a convincingly intimate and sympathetic first-hand portrait of Eric Holder, the first African-American Attorney General in US history, demonstrating how “[h]is first instinct is to shy away from confrontation, [...]

The Man in the Mirror by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 13, 2009 In celebrity culture we destroy what we worship. The commercial exploitation of Michael Jackson’s death was orchestrated by the corporate forces that rendered Jackson insane. Jackson, robbed of his childhood and surrounded by vultures that preyed on his fears and weaknesses, was so consumed [...]