Patrick Cockburn: Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn’t Learned the Lesson of History

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Jan. 4, 2010 Patrick Cockburn: Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn’t Learned the Lesson of History The United States and Britain have closed their embassies in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, citing security threats from an al-Qaeda group. On Saturday, President Obama connected the foiled Christmas Day attack on the Detroit-bound [...]

Escape from Pottersville: The North Dakota Model for Capitalizing Community Banks by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Jan. 4, 2010 The recent proposal to vote with our feet by shifting our deposits from Wall Street to community banks is a great start. However, community banks are not suffering from a lack of deposits so much as from a lack of the capital they [...]

The New Scarlet Letters: ‘NC’ by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 4 January 2010 The Makings of a Police State – Part V The Quest for Clearance It was late spring 2007, and I had arrived right before sunset at Centerville’s new ‘in place’ for the 30 something techie crowd. I was supposed [...]

U.S. to subject foreign air travellers from 14 countries to full body search

Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 4 January 2010 1) U.S. to subject foreign air travellers from 14 countries to full body search (4 January 2010) 2) Gordon Brown: British airports will introduce full-body scanners (1 January 2010) ____________________ http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6021ET20100104 excerpt from: New U.S. air traveller screening focuses on 14 nations [...]

Lining Up for the Wall Street Gravy Train By Mike Whitney

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House December 31, 2009 British economist John Maynard Keynes, believed in capitalism, but he was also sharply critical of its structural flaws. He summed it up succinctly like this: “Our analysis shows… that long-run development is not inherent in the capitalist economy. Thus, specific ‘development factors’ are required to [...]