The man that “shoed” Bush, Parts 1-3

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com TheRealNews May 22, 2010 — Muntadhar Al-Zaidi from Beirut: I expected to be killed the day I threw my shoes at Bush. Muntadhar al-Zaidi (Arabic: منتظر الزيدي‎ Muntaẓar az-Zaydī) was an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. Al-Zaidi’s reports often focused on the plight of widows, [...]

The Truth Shall Not be Spoken in Arizona by Glen Ford

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1097951 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Black Agenda Radio Commentaries 19 May 2010 As Arizona moves past the “tipping point” of non-white population, its government scrambles to safeguard historical white lies from exposure by public school ethnic studies programs. The governor “intends to wipe the white historical slate clean of actual [...]

Chossodovsky: Obama doesn’t want a nuclear free world

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica May 21, 2010 — During the Cold War, both the United States and Russia placed tactical nuclear weapons in certain parts of Europe. It’s basically a small nuclear bomb that could demolish a major city, Russia took back to its own weapons stockpiles. However, America still has their own mini nukes out and [...]

Oceans of Oil by Roxanne Amico

by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph Studio May 22, 2010 [Listen to Roxanne's powerful words: Spiritmorph Studio] This is a 3 minute 19 second Radio Roxanne experimental audio piece about the one-month-old oil hemorrhage in the Gulf of Mexico, for Friday, 21 May, 2010. It’s experimental in that it’s not my standard [...]

No Time For Consumer Power by Ralph Nader

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1098379 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page May 21, 2010 In the end, late on Thursday’s Senate passage of the financial regulation bill, the Senate had no time for independent, non-government consumer power. In the end, after listening to swarms of corporate bank, brokerage, hedge fund, private equity, and insurance lobbyists, the Senate had [...]