Angry Leftists ‘Man Up’ Against Scapegoating – Defying “When in doubt, bash progressives” by Robert S. Becker

by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net October 25, 2010 Berkeley, CA: “Is this open season on leftists for having opinions, especially when correct?” fires off a new progressive group: “We’re this season’s real piñata, smeared by Tea Party red-baiting, ridiculed by the president for thinking world peace should start or the Pentagon end, [...]

The Politicians’ Bible: Bringing in the Receipts by Walter and Rosemary Brasch

by Walter Brasch and Rosemary Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com October 25, 2010 It will be cold tonight in Pennsylvania, but that means nothing to dozens of politicians who are in their final week of a ubiquitous campaign to get a government job. There isn’t a household in Pennsylvania that has active voters that hasn’t [...]

Was Tim Griffin merely a “Rove-bot”? Did Karl Rove write the memos that dunked candidate Griffin in hot water? by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com Special to the Arkansas Times 25 October, 2010 Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida (“caging”), has communicated with me further following an e-mail I passed along this morning. He has a theory on Republican congressional candidate Tim Griffin’s involvement [...]

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Accepts Intelligence Experts’ Whistleblower Award “On Behalf of Our Sources” by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 October, 2010 On Saturday, during the press conference announcing Wikileaks’ release of nearly 400,000 classified US military field documents relating to the war in Iraq, Craig Murray, the human rights activist and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, accompanied by Daniel Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers whistleblower), presented [...]

The World Liberal Opportunists Made by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 25, 2010 The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the press, the church, universities, labor unions, the [...]