Activist Cindy Sheehan To Lead Protest Against Deepwater Horizon Unified Command Center In New Orleans

by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox June 20, 2010 Peace Activist, Cindy Sheehan to join other activists, scientists, and environmentalists in protest against BP’s “Oil-Cano” in the Gulf. CONTACT INFO: Call Cindy Sheehan, National Director of Peace of the Action: 707-301-6177 As one of the People’s responses [...]

Noam Chomsky: Two kinds of democracy (1991) + Media Control (Transcript)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ observationspring November 09, 2007 — Noam Chomsky on democracy, war, propaganda, manufacturing consent, media control, marxism-leninism, elitism, stupid masses, bewildered herd etc. From ‘Media Control’. According to the The Government Accounting Office, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion over the last two and a half years on public relations operations. That’s $1.6 billion of [...]

The concept of Hell in the art work of Hieronymus Bosch by Rocket Kirchner

by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) June 20, 2010 It is obvious to anyone with half a brain when viewing Bosch’s “The carrying of the cross” that Christ is surrounded mostly by evil men. But what is not so obvious is the left side of the triptych [...]

American Crusaders: The rise of Christian nationalism in Post-9/11 America (2008)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Dandelion Salad RT A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film explores an emerging ultra-rightwing mass movement seeking dominion over all aspects of contemporary American society. The film weaves archival video, contemporary Christian Nationalist movement propaganda (recruiting videos, apocalyptic/military video game imagery, etc. and original [...]

Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world by Naomi Klein

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1106030 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Naomi Klein The Guardian 19 June, 2010 Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a high school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in [...]