An Exclusive (Somewhat Apocryphal) Interview With Stephen Hawking On The BP Gulf Oil Spill Event – Horizon By Gary Corseri

By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 15, 2010 All this nambypambyism about the Gulf Oil Spill has got me down, so I figured I’d go to the smartest guy on the planet to get his what’s what. I met Stephen Hawking at his perch at the Mt. Palomar observatory.  It took me a [...]

Barack Obama’s Oval Office Address on BP Oil Spill and Energy + transcript

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Propaganda Alert! The White House June 15, 2010 The President addresses the American people from the Oval Office for the first time on the ongoing Administration-wide response to the BP oil spill and America’s clean energy future.  Public Domain

“Anyone Who Had A Heart” by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer June 15, 2010 (apologies to Burt Bacharach and Hal David) Anyone who ever worked could look at us And know that we need jobs. Anyone who ever dreamed could look at us And know that we dream of work, Knowing our kids need food. Anyone who had a [...]

Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack By Stephen Zunes

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Stephen Zunes Foreign Policy In Focus June 10, 2010 Tens of thousands of Israelis protested in the streets of Tel Aviv last weekend against their right-wing government’s attack on an unarmed humanitarian aid flotilla sailing in international waters. International condemnation of the raids continued in foreign capitals. Meanwhile, in Washington, Democratic congressional leaders [...]

Kucinich: Questions Shed Light on Manipulation, Challenge Fundamental Rational for War in Afghanistan

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Jun 14, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after information leaked out that earlier reports of a vast new mineral discovery that had been found in Afghanistan were not actually new discoveries: “We now know that ‘discovery’ of vast repositories of natural resources in Afghanistan was [...]