Convention USA: Confronting Unconstitutional Inaction by Congress by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org May 29, 2010 Wake up patriots.  Voting is not the answer.  Not in our corrupt system.  But there is something else for US citizens.  First they must understand the importance of the provision in Article V of their Constitution for a convention of state delegates that [...]

Naomi Klein: Why is BP still in charge?

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1100090 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish May 28, 2010 — Frustration is growing among residents of the US Gulf of Mexico coast over the pace of efforts to combat the growing oil spill in the region. Author and activist Naomi Klein has been visiting the state of Louisiana. She told Al Jazeera that patience is running very thin.

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 [...]