Memo to Michael Moore and Matt Taibbi: Capitalism Rules, Like it or Not by Robert S. Becker

By Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.beyondchron.org rbecker@cal.net Oct. 27, 2009 It’s hard not to like Michael Moore, our nation’s inspired, activist jester. What other unshaven, baseball-hatted, whistle-blowing filmmaker-entertainer elevates liberal consciousness while performing as media darling? What other bear-like, working class mensch amasses great wealth (but not arrogance) by mocking predatory industry [...]

Black Tuesday and a Return to Big Government By Mike Whitney

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney October 27, 2009 “Information Clearing House“ October 29, marks the 80th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the event which most historians point to as the beginning of the Great Depression. On Black Tuesday, traders dumped 16 million shares in one day sending the markets into freefall. In [...]

Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 27 October 2009 After railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most recently in an article entitled, [...]

Myth America II: 20 Greatest Myths Of The Robber Class And The Case For Revolution by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Oct. 27, 2009 PRE-ORDER: MYTH AMERICA II After touring for four months in about 40 cities with Myth America ONE, through my interactions with thousands of people, I realized that I had barely skimmed the surface of the Class War topic. [...]

Lest we forget? by William Bowles

By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 27 October 2009 There is something ironic—if not downright obscene—about the fact that in the UK the Poppy is used as the symbol of remembrance for all those who have died in the UK’s countless imperial wars, a symbol that is being used to punt the latest [...]