Greg Palast: Lobbyists benefit from BP oil spill + Gulf Coast, grab your gas masks!

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1108979 (no registration required) with Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 30 June, 2010 RTAmerica | June 30, 2010 BP is claiming it’s willing to pay back people who suffered from the Gulf oil spill. But the legal road ahead remains arduous. As with the Valdez, experts say litigation could take up to 20 [...]

Dennis Kucinich Introduces Cell Phone Research, Warning Label Bill

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jun 30, 2010 Today Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) announced his intent to introduce a bill to create a new national research program to study cell phones and health, require an update of the decades-old Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), and grant a consumer’s right-to-know by providing for warning labels [...]

The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom Part 2: Revolution and Repression in America by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 30, 2010 This is Part 2 of the series, The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom Part 1: The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order Introduction As outlined in Part 1 of this series, “The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom,” there [...]

Living on a dying delta by Dahr Jamail

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1108805 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail Dispatches June 30, 2010 Our first full day in Louisiana finds us venturing south from New Orleans to Houma, a town about an hours drive to the southwest. It is from here we are to take a flight over the marsh to inspect the damage, thus far, caused [...]

Naomi Klein to police: Don’t play public relations, do your goddamned job! + Judy Rebick: We won’t shut the F*ck up!

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ rabbletv | June 28, 2010 After the widely condemned police brutality during the G20 Summit in Toronto, crowds gathered for a protest in front of Police Headquarters in Toronto on Monday, June 28, 2010. There, Naomi Klein tore into the Toronto Police for choosing to “play public relations” instead of doing their job.