Glenn Greenwald on the Five Wars US Is Fighting in Muslim Countries

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Dec. 31, 2009 2009 in Perspective: Glenn Greenwald on the Five Wars US Is Fighting in Muslim Countries As 2009 comes to a close, today we begin by taking a step back and putting this year of war in perspective. Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discusses US foreign policy, including the escalation of [...]

2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 31 December, 2009 January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East. Beginning with the October 7, 2001 missile and bomb attacks on [...]

Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 31 December 2009 The weekend before Christmas, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo. In two previous articles, I told the stories of six of these men — two Somalis and four Afghans — and in this final article I look at the stories of the six Yemenis [...]

Flying Kites for Peace + Afghans protest against the killing of civilians + Befriending a potential Afghan insurgent

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Love is how the kites in Gaza, Afghanistan and the world will fly http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog December 31, 2009 Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers flew kites for the people of Gaza photo by Hakim At about 1pm Afghanistan time ( 10.30 am Gaza time when the planned Gaza Freedom March was supposed to begin ) on the [...]

Rachel Maddow: Bush and Cheney justifying Iraq War through torture! + Sen. Carl Levin refutes Cheney’s claims

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ im4wur2 December 30, 2009 Rachel Maddow – questioning during KSM’s torture 1/2 Rachel reveals that the questioning of KSM was “focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaeda and Iraq and we were not being successful in establishing a link between al Qaeda and Iraq. The more frustrated people got in not [...]