Venezuela’s Revolution Faces Crucial Battles by Federico Fuentes

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Posted with permission from Green Left Weekly by Federico Fuentes Green Left Feb. 20, 2010 Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela. The campaign for the September 26 National Assembly elections will be a crucial battle between the supporters of socialist President Hugo Chavez and the [...]

Mossad’s Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues By James Petras

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By James Petras Axisoflogic.com Monday, Feb 22, 2010 On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. The evidence is [...]

Mythic Truths Unify, Mythic Lies Fragment – “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” By Robert S. Becker

By Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net February 23, 2010 “Myth” has gotten itself a bad rap, with only itself to blame by proposing two opposed meanings.  Ditto  “cleave” or “splice,” which suggest both joining and separation. “Quantum” depicts both minute and elephantine, as in “quantum physics” yet also “quantum leap.”  “Sanction” is [...]

Debt Dynamite Dominoes: The Coming Financial Catastrophe by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 22, 2010 Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic Crisis The people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the rouse of a perceived “economic recovery.” Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does not make it so, especially when the people making [...]

Unexplored Oil Reserves in the South Atlantic: Towards a New Falklands Conflict? by Finian Cunningham

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Finian Cunningham Global Research, February 22, 2010 Little England Struts Again Exactly 28 years later, the spectre of the Falklands War makes a comeback. This was one of Britain’s last colonial wars – a sordid episode in the annals of the British Empire. In 1982, UK Prime Minister Margaret [Thatcher] sent a task [...]