Military Space Planes – First-Strike Systems by Bruce Gagnon + X-37B: Secret plane launched

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1089663 by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes April 23, 2010 The new military space plane, called the X-37B, was launched yesterday from Cape Canaveral strapped to an Atlas V rocket. The X-37 will spend up to 270 days in space before landing at Vandenberg AFB in California. The space plane will mostly [...]

Nuclear Weapons And Interceptor Missiles: Twin Pillars Of U.S.-NATO Military Strategy In Europe by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism April 23, 2010 The two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting in the Estonian capital of Tallinn on April 22-23 focused on the completion of the military alliance’s first 21st century Strategic Concept and on the war in Afghanistan, the near-complete absorption of [...]

Walt Cares… Happy Birthday Walt! by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad open.salon.com 23 April, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Walt Cares….. Nuff Said He’s usually the first one out on the corner, Peace sign in hand. A shade over six feet, a click in front of 81 years, Walt stands tall. His white hair flows in the wind, [...]

Victory for Workers at Hugo Boss – Agreement saves 375 Jobs by Dennis Kucinich

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Apr 23, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today celebrated a tentative agreement between Hugo Boss and representatives of Workers United SEIU to keep the Brooklyn, Ohio manufacturing plant operational for at least three years. Kucinich fought to keep the plant open. “This is a tremendous victory for organized labor [...]

Barry Lynn: The Monopoly Menace (must-see)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ C-SPAN April 17, 2010 Video and transcript: The Monopoly Menace – C-SPAN Video Library Barry Lynn talked about his book Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction Wiley; January 7, 2010. In his book he explores the industrial interdependence among nations and the growing fragility of complex industrial systems. He talked [...]