Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well By Sara Kennedy

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Sara Kennedy McClatchy Newspapers July 23, 2010 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP’s runaway Deepwater Horizon well — the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known [...]

What Happens Next? by Dahr Jamail

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail Dispatches (see photography by Erika Blumenfeld) July 23rd, 2010 Recently we met with Captain Louis Skrmetta who runs Ship Island Excursions out of Gulfport, Mississippi. His father Pete came to the US from Croatia in 1904, and began working as an oyster fisherman, now an endangered endeavor. From that [...]

NATO Pulls Pakistan Into Its Global Network by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism July 23, 2010 In four months the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold a summit in Lisbon, Portugal. The host country was one of the 12 nations that founded the United States-dominated military bloc 61 years ago. The rival grouping that [...]

House Expected to Act Next Week on Kucinich, Paul Privileged Resolution to Remove U.S. Forces in Pakistan + Interview with Dennis Kucinich

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated July 24, 2010 added video by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jul 23, 2010 H. Con. Res. 301 Cites 1973 War Powers Authorization The House of Representatives is expected to act next week on a privileged resolution introduced last night by Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Ron Paul (R-TX). The resolution directs the President, [...]

Why the U.S. Need Not Fear a Sovereign Debt Crisis: Unlike Greece, It Is Actually Sovereign by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com July 23, 2010 Last week, a Chinese rating agency downgraded U.S. debt from triple A and number one globally, to “double A with a negative outlook” and only thirteenth worldwide. The downgrade renewed fears that the sovereign debt crisis that began in Greece will soon reach [...]