Nothing Short of Complete Peace on Earth by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Sept. 14, 2009 At one of my many events in Kentucky this past week at a delightfully named coffee and beer hangout in Louisville, Ray’s Monkey House, a lovely woman named Trudie came up to me with tears in her eyes [...]

Stop Begging Obama to Be Obama and Get Mad by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 14, 2009 The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations. He is squandering the country’s future with deficits that can never be repaid. He has retained and even bolstered our surveillance state to spy on Americans. [...]

Max Blumenthal: The Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour

mblumenthal September 14, 2009 Max Blumenthal covers the 9.12 anti-Obama rally on the National Mall, where tens of thousands of teabaggers demonstrated their opposition to healthcare reform by calling Obama the biggest Nazi in the world, claiming he wants to put “real” Americans in concentration camps, and was born in Kenya. But how many of [...]

Postcard from Canada: Why I Missed Obama’s Speech by Sara Robinson

by Sara Robinson OurFuture.org Sept. 10, 2009 True confessions: I missed the health care speech. While the whole lefty blogosphere was watching and blogging and tweeting, I was sacked out in my attic bedroom high on a mountainside in Vancouver, sleeping off a narcotic haze and the exhausting aftermath of a long night spent in [...]

Is it Time to Disband the Republican Party? By Mike Whitney

By Mike Whitney September 13, 2009 “Information Clearing House“ Is it time to disband the Republican Party? Surely, the events of the past week suggest that the G.O.P. has outlived its shelf-life and needs to be conveyed pell-mell to the nearest dumpster. First, there was the Joe Wilson flap, where the indignant representative from South [...]