New York Times Spins UN Report on Gaza Suffering by Jeremy R. Hammond

by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Foreign Policy Journal 20 August, 2010 Ethan Bronner reports in the New York Times that a report on the situation in the Gaza Strip from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says that anti-Israeli militants operate from the border areas in question, planting explosive devices, firing at [...]

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ralph Nader

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 20, 2010 Bell, California, a working-class town of some 38,000 ten miles outside of Los Angeles, is a unique place. Its local government has proven to be citizen-proof, media proof, city-council proof and even leak-proof from inside its self-enriching top officialdom. Get this: Bell city manager. Robert [...]

US scientist retracts assurances over success of cleanup + videos

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Suzanne Goldenberg The Guardian 19 August 2010 NOAA’s Bill Lehr says three-quarters of the oil that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon rig is still in the Gulf environment while scientists identify 22-mile plume in ocean depths White House claims that the worst of the BP oil spill was over were undermined yesterday when [...]

Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq by Jeremy R. Hammond

by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Foreign Policy Journal 20 August, 2010 Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is “A truly historic end to seven years of war”, in the words of Lt. Col Mark Beiger, quoted in the Washington Post, referring to the final withdrawal of “combat” [...]

Declassified Senate Investigation Files Reveal Clandestine Israeli PR Campaign in America

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PRNewswire-USNewswire WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23rd, 2010.  The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel’s clandestine programs for “cultivation of editors,” the “stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer [...]