Criticizing Venezuela from the outside By William Bowles

By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 14 May, 2010 Now ‘real’ lefties are probably going to call me a wuss, you know the kind of thing, ‘defend the revolution no matter what’, or label me a counter-revolutionary, but hey, it’s not for me to tell Venezuela how to do things whilst I’m sitting [...]

Shahzad: American dream or nightmare bomber? By Jerry Mazza

By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 14, 2010 Here he is, Faisal Shahzad, in Time Magazine’s 11-photo essay. Actually, his smiling face bookends the essay, photo seven being him with his lovely wife and infant, the rest: shots of the Pathfinder being taken away, a schematic of its [...]

The Ongoing Misery of Mordechai Vanunu by Eileen Fleming

by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 14 May, 2010 On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service.” [1] Vanunu is scheduled to return to jail on May 23, 2010, because the ‘justices’ refused [...]

Getting to Know Elena Kagan by Ralph Nader

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1095679 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page May 14, 2010 Given the Niagara of commentary on the nomination of Elena Kagan to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, we know very little about the nominee. For friend and critic alike, the predominant view of Ms. Kagan is that [...]

Will Hezbollah support the right to work for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon? by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp Beirut 14 May, 2010 Local political pressures are mounting on the Party of God Part IV of a series on the campaign to enact civil rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon The current relationship between Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as [...]