Time for OTA by Ralph Nader

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page May 28, 2010 When the Republican Gingrich devolution took over Congress in 1995, it stripped the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of all its funding and left it a shell with no experts to advise committees and members of Congress. Whereupon Congress was plunged into a dark [...]

Memorial “Daze”: Nightmares of Empire by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 28 May, 2010 Hitler’s German army invaded and occupied Poland. Many soldiers were killed. The Japanese invaded and occupied Nanking and Shanghai. They had many soldiers killed. The same for the British when they occupied India and Palestine. The local populations did not wish to be occupied [...]

Memorial Day 2010: Milestones Of Mourning by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer May 28, 2010 Recently, it was announced that the 1,000th U.S. soldier was killed in Afghanistan.  By Memorial Day, 2010, U.S. taxpayers will have spent $1 TRILLION on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  More than one million Iraqis have been killed in our illegal, unnecessary war of lies [...]

Gaza flotilla show down + Radio contact with Cyprus Police + FreeGaza Update

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday — May 28, 2010 — Gaza could be set for its latest humanitarian, and possibly military, confrontation. An international flotilla carrying aid is heading there, in defiance of a blockade imposed by Israel. Tel Aviv is preparing to block the effort at all costs.

Michel Chossudovsky: The Homeland Security State and the Economical Crisis

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated: June 3, 2010 Added the extended interview without breaks Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter KPFA May 26, 2010 The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the Twenty-First Century” with economist and author, Michel Chossudovsky.