Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095011 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Maria Recio, Dave Montgomery and Mark Washburn McClatchy Newspapers May 12, 2010 WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that [...]

Michael Hudson: This is terrible news. No economy has ever grown as a result of austerity

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095219 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish May 12, 2010 — Can a unified currency work, or would the taxpayers in the rich EU states end up paying for the blunders of corrupt politicians and bankers?

Anti-communist mania by William Blum

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095007 by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 12 May, 2010 Terminally-dumb people have always been with us of course.  It can’t be that we’ve suddenly gone stupid. If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teabagger followers of Sarah “Africa is a country” Palin and [...]

Philip A. Farruggio: Apathy among the church-goers

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 12 May, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Would he not condemn those who torture, or order torture, or attempt to justify it? Would he not intercede when a priest asks his flock to ‘pray for our brave troops‘, but never the civilians being killed by our troops, [...]

France: Ban on Muslim Burka a Cynical Ploy to Stoke Islamophobia by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Finian.cunningham@gmail.com 12 May, 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy is playing with fire after his country’s parliament voted to ban Muslim women from wearing the Islamic veil in public places. Last month, Sarkozy ordered the French parliament to debate introducing a ban on Muslim women donning in public the [...]