Thin Evidence from War Logs of Iranian Backing of Iraqi Militias by Jeremy R. Hammond

by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Foreign Policy Journal 25 October, 2010 Under the headline “Leaked Reports Detail Iran’s Aid for Iraqi Militias“, the New York Times reports that documents from the Wikileaks Iraq War Logs “provide a ground-level look – at least as seen by American units in the field and the United [...]

War does this to your mind

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Sent to DS from Hakim in Afghanistan. photo by Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com October 22, 2010 And read Kathy Kelly’s record of Khamad’s long pauses as he describes how ‘war does this to your mind’ http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/21-10 Transcript: I am a boy seeking love, but alas I live on the empty hills,

Sugar Town – The Day After (Disaster Capitalism) (2008)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Filmmaker: Kimon Tsakiris AlJazeeraEnglish | October 24, 2010 On August 24, 2007, the largest wildfire in the history of Greece swept through the region of Zacharo, also known as Sugar Town. It burnt everything in its path, leaving a devastated landscape and 65 people dead.

Tony Hall: Global Capitalism and Imperialism, interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds

by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 24 October, 2010 Tony Hall provides us with an overview of his recently released book Earth into Property, and discusses the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism, beginning with Christopher Columbus’s inception [...]

Arabian Sea: Center Of West’s 21st Century War by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism October 24, 2010 A quarter of the world’s nuclear aircraft carriers will soon be in the Arabian Sea. The Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the region on October 17 to join the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, [...]