Naomi Klein to police: Don’t play public relations, do your goddamned job! + Judy Rebick: We won’t shut the F*ck up!

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ rabbletv | June 28, 2010 After the widely condemned police brutality during the G20 Summit in Toronto, crowds gathered for a protest in front of Police Headquarters in Toronto on Monday, June 28, 2010. There, Naomi Klein tore into the Toronto Police for choosing to “play public relations” instead of doing their job.

Who Will Pay, Wall Street or Main Street – The Tobin Tax or The Vat? by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 29, 2010 Wall Street banks have been saved from bankruptcy by governments that are now going bankrupt themselves; but the banks are not returning the favor. Instead, they are engaged in a class war, insisting that the squeezed middle class be even further squeezed to [...]

Inheritance Lost: Must Baby Turtles Die for Oil Rigs To Live? By Robert S. Becker

by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net June 29, 2010 photo by Katy Pye used with permission © All rights reserved. South Padre Island, Texas: Sidestepping this week’s oncoming hurricane, my wife and I just returned from the south Texas coast where we observed 116 soup spoon-sized hatchling sea turtles marching boldly into [...]

No Blow Movement Grows By Shepherd Bliss

By Shepherd Bliss Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.vowvop.org June 29, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Peter and Susan Kendall of Orinda, Northern California, are not your typical political activists. This couple really wants some peace and quiet, so they can be comfortable within their suburban home and with their backyard chickens, berries and tomatoes. But [...]

Keiser Report №55: Ellen Brown on deficit terrorism

with Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 29, 2010 RussiaToday | June 29, 2010 | 26 minutes This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the latest scandals of invisible gorillas, virtual pay and China’s hi-tech underclass. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Ellen Brown, author [...]