Gaza aid convoy to change course + Children of Gaza share their experiences of “Cast Lead”

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Al Jazeera English 28 Dec 2009 Organisers of Viva Palestina aid convoy, which is trying to reach the Gaza Strip, have now agreed to go via Syria en route to Egypt. The agreement came after a Turkish mediator reached a deal with the Egyptian consul in Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba. The convoy [...]

Dennis Hastert: A Portrait of a Political System Termite by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 28 December 2009 The Erosion & Rotting of a Nation’s Foundation While dictionaries and encyclopedias, including Wikipedia, provide a thorough definition and description of insect termites, none offers any information on the semi-human termites embedded within the political system of our nation, [...]

Protest against CIA drone attacks coming to Langley, Virginia by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Dec. 28, 2009 Contacts: Cindy Sheehan (cindy@cindysheehanssoapbox.com) Joshua Smith (joshuagarrettsmith@gmail.com) PROTEST AGAINST CIA DRONE ATTACKS COMING TO LANGLEY, VIRGINIA “Every one of these dead non-combatants represents an alienated family, a new revenge feud, and more recruits for a militant movement that [...]

Disturbing questions in thwarted US plane bombing + The Yemen War

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Barry Grey www.wsws.org 28 December 2009 The nearly catastrophic attempt to blow up a US passenger jet during its final approach to Detroit Metro Airport on Christmas Day raises a number of serious questions. While many details of the attempted terror attack and the biography of the would-be suicide bomber remain sketchy, widely-reported [...]

One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Dec. 28, 2009 Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air [...]