American Designs in Latin America By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com July 28, 2010 The United States has many fences in Latin America that need mending.  You can see by the attention the U.S. is paying to Costa Rica, Colombia and Panama that the government in Washington is keenly aware of this and is responding in the [...]

War Parties Join Hands In $$$ Orgy by Bruce Gagnon

by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes July 27, 2010 July 28, 2010 There were two important votes today in the House of Representatives (one must wonder who is really being represented by most politicians these days). The first was a vote on Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s resolution calling on the U.S. to remove [...]

Will the U.S. Annex Latin America? By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com July 28, 2010 The United States seems to be rushing into potential confrontations all over the globe. When the voters rejected the policies of George W. Bush by voting for Barack Obama, many people thought that this country would find a way to communicate with the [...]

Oil leaks = wikileaks by Roxanne Amico

by Roxanne Amico Dandelion Salad Spiritmorph Studio July 28, 2010 Updated: July 29, 2010 Remember Sesame Street? Remember the song, “One of these things is not like the other” ? On that theme, I’d call this post, “One of these things is just like the other!” Since the Wikileaks story about the US gov’t’s failed [...]

BP Response Crew Faces “Catastrophic” Conditions by Dahr Jamail

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t 26 July 2010 BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly. “Yesterday was a catastrophe,” one worker, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Truthout. [...]