“You Got Bailed Out We Got Sold Out”–Thousands Protest on Wall Street

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! April 30, 2010 “You Got Bailed Out We Got Sold Out”–Thousands Protest on Wall Street Thousands of people turned out for a protest on Wall Street Thursday to denounce the taxpayer-funded bailout and the role of large financial firms in the nation’s economic crisis. A coalition of union and community groups organized [...]

The death of an American hospital By Jerry Mazza

By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com April 30, 2010 As I walk past St. Vincent’s hospital in Greenwich Village on 7th Avenue, it seems to be in its death throes. They are taking down the Emergency Room marquee whose red neon was a beacon to the aged and newborn, [...]

Wealth for Justice by Ralph Nader

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1091765 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 30, 2010 There are signs that some super-rich are revolting against their “wealth fraternity.” Last fall, mega-billionaire, Warren Buffet, traveled to Washington to meet with Democratic Senators and urge them to raise taxes on the wealthy like him. He pointedly said he pays at a lower [...]

Chris Hedges: Media Sanitizes War

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1091725 From my old blog, this is why I started blogging: What we need on our nightly TV news and in our newspapers are coffins and dead babies, and mutilated soldiers. We have a media blackout on showing what war is really all about. I hold the media responsible as well as our govt. — [...]

Down with ‘Too Big to Fail’: Angry Americans march on Wall Street

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday April 30, 2010 — The largest anti-Wall Street rally since the credit crunch has taken place in New York. Thousands of workers and trade union leaders marched in anger over lost jobs and ruined lives, demanding answers from the source of the trouble – the banks.