Medvedev, Obama signing START treaty + Obama and Medvedev speak on arms cuts deal after signing in Prague

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Full video of Medvedev, Obama signing START treaty

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April 08, 2010 — Russia and the U.S. have signed a much-heralded new nuclear arms treaty, agreeing to slash the world’s strategic stockpiles by about a third. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama inked the deal in the Czech capital.

One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians

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April 08, 2010

Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians

As the US Central Command says it has no plans to reopen an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day after the attack. [includes rush transcript]

Racist rhetoric and measures are now part of Israeli mainstream

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On the border Pt.3

Report from Middle East: Warschawski – Racist rhetoric and measures are now part of Israeli mainstream

Shocking Censorship at Google News and the Future of Net Neutrality By David DeGraw

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By David DeGraw
AmpedStatus Report
April 8th, 2010

For those of you who want to know what the internet will end up like when the Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner interests take it over, you need to look at this shocking new case of censorship by Google News.

The recent federal court ruling in favor of censorship on the part of internet companies representing the interests of the Business Roundtable — Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner — is a serious threat to the dissemination of critical information vital to the functioning of our democracy. The consolidation of media companies that has occurred in traditional media outlets, such as newspapers, radio and television, has led to the strategic dumbing down of the U.S. population. Under tight control by the most powerful corporations on the planet, U.S. mainstream media has become an omnipresent propaganda system designed to divide, distract, confuse and create apathy among the U.S. populace. In the process, mainstream corporate controlled media has obscured, isolated and suppressed dissent and understanding of our present ruling class.

Vulture Financier Attacks Banned in Britain by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
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April 8 – London – Update for In These Times

We’ve stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen’s scepter.

“Vulture funds” are international re-po men who buy up old debt of the world’s poorest nations for pennies on the dollar, then sue for ten to a hundred times what they paid for these old loans. The new UK law, passed unanimously, would bar financiers from using UK courts to collect more than the sums authorized by the International Monetary Fund. In effect, this stops American predators – such as financiers Eric Hermann, Michael Straus, and Michael Francis “Goldfinger” Sheehan, from siphoning tens of millions of dollars of aid money the US and UK treasuries had earmarked for Liberia, Zambia, Congo and other desperately poor countries.

Peace comes not with words but with resolute action

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April 08, 2010 — Please watch an ordinary Afghan boy fulfill his promise to Ambassador Eikenberry & President Obama, as elite promises falter

Ralph Nader: George Bush and Dick Cheney are still at-large!

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April 04, 2010 — Peace of the Action records Ralph Nader at the ANSWER protest rally before the march on March 20, 2010 in Washington DC.

Ralph Nader Speech 3.20.10 Washington DC

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A Win for Whistle Blowers by Ralph Nader

In solidarity with Mathis Chiroux and Elaine Brower and support of burning the flag by Cindy Sheehan + The Burning of an Empire

Camp is Gone, but not for Long! by Cindy Sheehan

Whose Streets? (Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit) by Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan’s Speech at the Anti-war Protest + More videos of her arrest + Going over the barricade!

Cindy Sheehan Arrested At War Protest In D.C.

Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
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Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
April 8, 2010

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed five years after and in the same manner as he came to power, in a bloody uprising.

Elected president two months after the so-called Tulip Revolution of 2005 he helped engineer, he was since then head of state of the main transit nation for the U.S. and NATO war in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon secured the Manas Air Base (as of last year known as the Transit Center at Manas) in Kyrgyzstan shortly after its invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001 and in the interim, according to a U.S. armed forces publication last June, “More than 170,000 coalition personnel passed through the base on their way in or out of Afghanistan, and Manas was the transit point for 5,000 tons of cargo, including spare parts and equipment, uniforms and various items to support personnel and mission needs.

Rep. Kucinich Joins Workers at Hugo Boss to Save Jobs

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by Dennis Kucinich
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Brooklyn, Ohio
Wednesday, 07 April 2010

Congressman Dennis Kucinich joined workers of Hugo Boss at a rally in Brooklyn, Ohio in an effort to save their jobs. Joining with Rep. Kucinich was Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, actor/activist Danny Glover, Dallas Sells of Workers United/SEIU, Harriet Applegate, Executive Secretary of the North Shore Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, Brooklyn Mayor Richard Balbier and a host of other public and union officials.

Congressman Kucinich stated, “The workers at Hugo Boss deserve our support not only because of what’s happening here in Brooklyn, Ohio but also because your struggle is a struggle that workers all over the United States are experiencing.

Galileo 2010 by Michael Carmichael

by Michael Carmichael
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
PlanetaryMovement.org
April 8, 2010

Today, a struggle is taking place in Great Britain between prejudice and science. The Conservatives have attacked a major scientist and are attempting to humiliate him through a trial-by-tabloid of dogma versus science.

Here is a brief backstory. Exactly four hundred years ago in 1610, Galileo Galilei published The Starry Messenger, a book that defined his monumental theory that the sun – not the earth – is the center of the solar system. Galileo’s theory flew in the face of long-established Catholic dogma that the earth does not move. Eventually, Galileo would collide with the awesome power of the Pope.