Loose Cannon And Nuclear Submarines: West Prepares For Arctic Warfare by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 30 November, 2009 The Arctic Ocean, and in particular its waters under the ice cap, are Russia’s last retaliatory refuge, that spot on the earth where any element of its strategic forces is comparatively safe from a Western first strike and least targetable by interceptor [...]

In Search of Italy by Gaither Stewart

by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 30 November 2009 The dream and the reality are far apart and the chasm is growing bigger with each passing day, affirms our correspondent Italy—at once anarchic, stubbornly individualistic and communitarian—is no longer everyone’s second motherland. Her warmth, her legendary charms and generosity, even her sense of humor [...]

Fort Hood & the KSM trial- Parts I-2: What do these terrorism stories have in common? + The al Qaeda Spy

by Peter Lance http://www.boilingfrogspost.com Nov. 30, 2009 Al Qaeda’s Master Spy could be the key to them both In its firestorm of coverage, the mainstream media has overlooked a potential link between the two biggest domestic terrorism stories of the day: the shootings at Ford Hood and the decision by the Justice Dept. to try [...]

Chris Hedges: How will we cope with our decline?

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 30, 2009 In case you missed this talk by Hedges on this post: Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion – The Cult of Self TVW – Washington State Public Affairs Network: MEDIA:Author’s Hour July 22, 2009 Chris Hedges speaks on his new book “Empire of Illusion: The End of [...]

Amy Goodman speaks in Vancouver: Dissent is what will save us! (must-see)

Dandelion Salad H/t and thanks to subMedia.tv, more on his post: Democracy Later. VMC Video Exclusive: Amy Goodman speaks in Vancouver | Vancouver Media Co-op By the time Amy Goodman spoke to a standing room only crowd at Vancouver’s Public Library on Wednesday, November 25, there was one thing on everyone’s mind: the 2010 Olympics. [...]