Daniel Ellsberg: Our President Is Deceiving the American Public

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! March 30, 2010 “Our President Is Deceiving the American Public”: Pentagon Papers Whistleblower on President Obama and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq We are joined by a man who played a major role in efforts to end the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In 1971, the then-RAND Corporation analyst Daniel Ellsberg [...]

END:CIV Premise 3 of Derrick Jensen’s Endgame

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator March 29, 2010 subMedia This short piece explores the third premise of Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame” The cast: Tenant – Dave Markland Pig – Dave Cunningham Production assistance from Carlos Melendres The music is by stig inge oy ENDCIV: Premise 3 see End: Civ: Premise 10: The culture and most of its members are insane [...]

Attention Deficit Democracy by Ralph Nader

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page March 29, 2010 A society not alert to signs of its own decay, because its ideology is a continuing myth of progress, separates itself from reality and envelops illusion. One yardstick by which to measure the decay in our country’s political, economic, and cultural life, is the answer [...]

Peace Outlaws by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox first published in Islam Times March 29, 2010 Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” Henry David Thoreau A week ago today, I was literally cooling my jets in a freezing cold DC jail for protesting [...]

Why I Hate Palm Sunday by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox first published in Islam Times March 29, 2010 Six years ago, I woke up on Palm Sunday listening to the birds sing and already feeling that it was going to turn out to be a warm one. I got up and [...]