“What are you going to do about it?” by Jason Miller

by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner June 12, 2010 Two weeks ago, as I was figuratively staggering through the worst existential pummeling I’ve endured since my self-imposed sentence to Dante’s Inferno in the early 90’s, I had a profound (recovering) alcoholic’s moment of clarity. Alone and grappling with the unwelcome silence [...]

Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Imperialist Policies

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ joefriendly June 12, 2010 Following a NY Peace Action Benefit viewing of Karen Malpede’s new play, Prophesy, Noam Chomsky criticizes Obama’s rightwing policies, war making, medical care, coziness with commercial interests . He warns of the coming war in Kandahar and Israel’s possible attack on Iran that could go nuclear. In the Q & [...]

Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 12 June, 2010 The recently released Final Report of President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force (PDF) was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it took eleven months to complete, and involved “more than 60 career [...]

Ellen Brown: The Financial Hijacking of America

by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 12, 2010 Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter www.kpfa.org June 9, 2010 Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; [...]

Ralph Nader says reinstate Helen Thomas

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1104073 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Nader: Helen Thomas apologized – she was attacked with such ferocity because she always asked ‘why’ Named by The Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Ralph Nader has helped [...]