Americans Voted Few Incumbent Bums Out by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org Nov. 19, 2010 For some years a number of groups have been advocating voting out incumbents in Congress, both the House and the Senate, as a path to reform and improve the US political system.  You might have thought that with this year’s incredible widespread public anger [...]

What’s Really Behind QE2? by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com November 19, 2010 The deficit hawks are circling, hovering over QE2, calling it just another inflationary bank bailout. But unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks. It’s about funding the federal deficit without increasing the interest tab, something that may be necessary in this gridlocked [...]

Eva Golinger: US using democracy promotion as disguise for regime change

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica | November 18, 2010 The United States used to send military aid to opposing political regimes in countries it wanted to see overthrown. These days the United States sends a different type of aid, US taxpayer money is paying for “democracy promotion”, a way for the US to influence elections in other countries [...]

US and NATO imperialism in South Asia: The developing Pakistan quagmire by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D

by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Written on June 15, 2009 Nov. 18, 2010 After some nationalist and anti-imperialist elements succeeded in defeating the elaborate US and British plans to install two of their puppets- Parvez Musharraf and the late Benazir Bhutto-in the highest government offices in Pakistan, another puppet, Asif Ali Zardari, [...]

I Cry Instead by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad November 18, 2010 With kudos to the Beatles and a little poetic license: ‘I got every reason on earth to be sad, cause I just lost the only country I had. If I could get my way I’d try to get her back someway, but I can’t so [...]