Pentagon Chief In Azerbaijan: Afghan War Arc Stretches To Caspian, Caucasus by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism June 7, 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on June 6, meeting with President Ilham Aliyev on that day and on the following with Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev. Gates was the first cabinet-level American [...]

BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day, scientist says

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Renee Schoof and Erika Bolstad McClatchy Newspapers June 7, 2010 WASHINGTON — BP’s runaway Deepwater Horizon well may be spewing what the company once-called its worst case scenario — 100,000 barrels a day, a member of the government panel told McClatchy Monday. [...] Leifer said that based on satellite data he’s examined, the [...]

Dear Helen Thomas with a PS to all her ‘Colleagues’ and Every American by Eileen Fleming

by Eileen Fleming Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 7 June, 2010 Eighty-nine-year old Journalist Helen Thomas has taken a lot of heat for daring to address the fact that any Jew without any historical connection to Israel is encouraged to settle-as in colonize-upon legally owned Palestinian land. I learned about, Aliyah, which means ‘going up,’ during [...]

Cowardly Progressives by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org June 7, 2010 After listening to a number of speeches at a national conference of progressives I come to this conclusion: Progressives are more than eager to take credit for electing President Obama and even to complain about the many failures of him and his administration.  [...]

New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involved Human Experimentation

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 7 June, 2010 In a 27-page report, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program” (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights has brought into sharp focus the role played by US medical personnel in torture and human experimentation. [...]