Michael Moore On Wall Street

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mmflint — April 28, 2010 “I’m happy the Obama administration brought these civil charges against them but I think there should be a criminal investigation. A lot of people’s money vaporized and I think when that happens — I’ll tell ya, we spend a lot of energy in our criminal justice system going after [...]

Hammering Out a Contract: Exploiting Low-Paid Workers at a Vo-Tech School

by Walter Brasch and Rosemary R. Brasch Featured Writers Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com April 27, 2010 Art Welch, the in-school suspension supervisor at the Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School (Vo-Tech) in Bloomsburg, Pa., earns $8 an hour, only 75 cents above minimum wage. In the six years he has been at Vo-Tech, he has never had [...]

In Washington-Speak, “Palestinian State” Means “Fried Chicken” By Noam Chomsky

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Noam Chomsky TomDispatch April 27, 2010 A Middle East Peace That Could Happen But Won’t The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not [...]

Inside the Stalin Archives by Daniel N. White

by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 27, 2010 Relatively new (2008) book by Jonathan Brent, professor at Yale, and leader of the Yale University project to publish declassified materials from the Soviet era archives. Book is well worth a read.  Brent started the Yale project in 1992, and managed to make it [...]

Carl Levin: How much of that shitty deal did you sell to your clients?

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1090662 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Attention101 April 27, 2010 — Carl Levin questioning Daniel Sparks – Former Goldman Sachs Mortgages Department Head.