Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010 By John Pilger

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger December 30, 2009 – “Information Clearing House“ In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama is [...]

Kucinich to Investigate Fannie/Freddie Bailout

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ kucinich.us – Home The following blog post by Jane Hamsher Founder & Publisher – firedoglake.com appeared today, December 30, 2009: If the White House thought they could slip the bailout of Fannie and Freddie through by announcing it in a Christmas Eve news dump, think again. Dennis Kucinich just released this statement: “As Chairman [...]

Egypt Approves Gaza Freedom March Passage, Viva Palestina Blunders Paperwork and Blames Egypt By Haitham Sabbah

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ h/t and thanks to William Bowles at Creative-i By Haitham Sabbah http://palestinethinktank.com Dec 29th, 2009 In a press conference conducted earlier this evening, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced some threats, warnings, surprises as well as some good news. The press conference that aired on Egyptian official TV a few hours ago [...]

Sam Husseini: Gaza Freedom March

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Paul Jay talks to Sam Husseini in Cairo, Egypt Sam Husseini is in Egypt, accompanying the “Gaza Freedom March,” which has assembled in Cairo, Egypt with hopes of visiting Gaza on the year anniversary of Israel’s bombing last January. He is writing for The Washington Stakeout. more about “Gaza Freedom March“, posted with vodpod [...]

Obama answers failed airline bombing with threat of new wars By Bill Van Auken

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Bill Van Auken www.wsws.org 30 December 2009 Three days after the failed attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian student to trigger an explosion on a Northwest Airlines passenger jet, President Barack Obama threatened to unleash US military power in Yemen and across the globe. Obama interrupted his Hawaii vacation Monday to deliver his bellicose [...]