Peace Of The Action Demands A Retraction From The AP by Cindy Sheehan + Photos from Protest

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox January 17, 2010 To: Associated Press CC: Jessica Gresko RE: Misleading article about the January 16th protest at CIA Headquarters From: Cindy Sheehan representing Peace of the Action. Yesterday, Peace of the Action Coalition organized a protest in front of CIA [...]

Ansel Herz: Earthquake Immediate Aftermath On the Ground + The Morning After – The Haitian People Have Mobilized

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mediahacker January 15, 2010 This video is from the immediate aftermath – 3 to 20 minutes after the tremors on January 12 – in the neighborhood of Jacquet in Port-au-Prince where I lived since September. I really wish I could have got this up on the web sooner, but Internet connections are difficult to [...]

It’s Cold, so there is no Global Warming 2 + 32,000 Scientists

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ greenman3610 January 16, 2010 We’ve heard a lot of talk lately from deniers that cold temperatures are proof that there is no such thing as global warming. It looks like it will be an annual event for me to remind people that winter still follows summer. Since deniers seem to want to believe the [...]

Obama Executive Order Seeks to “Synchronize and Integrate” State and Federal Military Forces by Tom Burghardt

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Tom Burghardt Dissident Voice Antifascist Calling… January 16th, 2010 In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year’s Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 on January 11. Among other things, the Executive Order (EO) established a Council [...]

Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control – Guns, Not Aid Have Arrived

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish January 17, 2010 It is five days since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, spreading fear and misery across an already fragile nation. After a relatively slow start, US forces appear to be taking the lead in organising international aid efforts on the ground. But there is a long way to go. Residents outside [...]