What Would Socialism Be Like? by Leela Yellesetty

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Leela Yellesetty SocialistWorker.org July 20, 2010 Part 1: A crying need for change At the Socialism 2010 conference in Oakland, Calif., SocialistWorker.org contributor Leela Yellesetty spoke on “What Would Socialism Be Like?” This three-part article is based on her talk. In the first part, she answers the time-worn charge that socialism wouldn’t work [...]

Bill Black: New Finance Bill Will Not Prevent Another Crisis + Those who betrayed got rich

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Update 2 July 27, 2010 added Part 3 Update 1 July 24, 2010 added Part 2 TheRealNews | July 22, 2010 Bill Black: Administration and Congress not willing to break up big banks or control exec. compensation.

Money Laundering and the Global Drug Trade are Fueled by the Capitalist Elites by Tom Burghardt

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Tom Burghardt Global Research, July 21, 2010 Antifascist Calling… – 2010-07-20 When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which trained both terrorist pilots [...]

China battles Yellow Sea oil spill

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish | July 22, 2010 Chinese authorities struggling to contain the environmental and economic damage of a major oil spill in the Yellow sea which began last Friday. The pipeline has now been repaired, but the cause of the explosion that ruptured it is unknown.

Protofascism Comes to America: The Rise of the Tea Party by Ted Rall

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ted Rall Information Clearing House www.rall.com July 22, 2010 Is the Tea Party racist? Democrats who play liberals on TV say it isn’t. Vice President Joe Biden says the Tea Party “is not a racist organization” per se, but allows that “at least elements that were involved in some of the Tea Party [...]