Now Comes a Topper: Obama’s Newest Giveaway to the Banks by Michael Hudson

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Michael Hudson Global Research, September 14, 2010 I can smell the newest giveaway looming a mile off. The Wall Street bailout, health-insurance giveaway and support of real estate prices rather than mortgage-debt write-downs were bad enough, not to mention the Oil War’s Afghan extension. But now comes a topper: the $50 billion transportation [...]

Immersed in Empire By William Bowles

By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation 15 September, 2010 It seems we’ve lost a revolution before it even got started I’ve spent the last couple of months trying to get my head around the absurdity that is British capitalism as it tries to square the circle. Engaged in [...]

The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana by William John Cox

by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org September 15, 2010 For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed [...]

By One Vote, US Court OKs Torture and “Extraordinary Rendition”

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 15 September, 2010 Sometimes a story is so troubling that it takes some time to digest, and the ruling delivered last Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (PDF), in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of five men subjected to “extraordinary rendition” and [...]

The Terrorism of Temper Tantrums: Where’s the Tough Love? By Robert S. Becker

by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net September 15, 2010 Ever been shopping, or getting a bite to eat, and suddenly shrieking kids invade your space?  Perhaps good parents interceded, dragging ear-splitters from center stage; perhaps they’re really Tea Partiers in training.  While most families moderate small-time irrationality, in North Carolina a frustrated restaurateur [...]