Caught between a “liberal” and a hard man: How the BBC spends your licence money By William Bowles

By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 2 June, 2010 “Israeli commandos had paintball guns” – Israeli Ambassador to Russia, Anna Azari “This happened in waters outside of Israeli territory, but we have the right to defend ourselves.” — Israeli military spokeswoman, Avital Leibovich In Yiddish it’s called Chutzpah, to have the nerve to [...]

The Black Art Of ‘Master Illusions’ By John Pilger

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1101462 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House www.johnpilger.com June 02, 2010 How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”. In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive proof [...]

How and Why I got ‘on-board’ with The FREEDOM FLOTILLA to Gaza by Eileen Fleming

by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 2 June, 2010 I am an American without a drop of Arab blood within me and my org has been an endorsing org of the FREEDOM FLOTILLA, since I learned about it on the final day of the 27th annual American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Washington, D.C. Conference on 10 [...]

Another setback in BP’s attempt to halt leak

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Renee Schoof McClatchy Newspapers June 2, 2010 WASHINGTON — The latest BP maneuver to stop the gush of oil from a busted well in the Gulf of Mexico had to be put on pause on Wednesday because a diamond saw got stuck in the pipe it was trying to cut through on the [...]

Israeli International Aggression: White House Thumbs Up To State Terror and Murder By Finian Cunningham

Buzz it up: http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1101447 by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Finian.cunningham@gmail.com 2 June, 2010 Here it comes – the White House whitewash of Israel’s bloodied hands – an odious act of complicity that flouts international law and sets the scene for more state terrorism and murder of civilians. After days of conspicuous US absence [...]