Majority of One by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
December 14. 2010

On Friday, December 10, 2010, Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent Socialist, of Vermont, came of age. At last. With just about the best progressive voting record, Senator Sanders has nonetheless been an underachiever in the minds of those Americans who marveled at his tenure as mayor of Burlington, Vt. before he became a Congressman and now a Senator.

On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvres? by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
14 December, 2010

Decreased Appetite & Increased Termination Risk before the Main Course

As I have said before I am not ready to analyze or talk about Wikileaks’ recent exposé. It’s still too early, and so far too little with too insignificant implications has been released. I am still waiting for the highly revealing, explosive, and or severely implicating cables; if any. What I want to do, however, is to briefly discuss Wikileaks’ strategy in releasing the documents, so far, and to get your two cents on it. In fact, I want to briefly discuss the exact reason why I haven’t even begun delving into this so far released material. My major concerns and questions regarding Wikileaks’ strategy are as follows:

U.S. Builds Military Alliance With Japan, South Korea For War In The East by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
December 14, 2010

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Last week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton summoned her Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Foreign Ministers Seiji Maehara and Kim Sung-hwan, to Washington for trilateral talks on the Korean crisis in an open affront to China and Russia, which had called for a resumption of six-party discussions with both Koreas, themselves, the U.S. and Japan.

Wikileaks: Prelude to a new wave of ‘legal’ repression? By William Bowles

By William Bowles
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
williambowles.info
14 December, 2010

This wikileaks thing is frustrating the life out of me! The release has, in theory at least, exposed the Machiavellian activities of the foreign arm of the US state in all its sordid and mundane expressions, not-to-mention the complete rubbish these ‘experts’ regurgitate, to the entire world. It really is a case of ‘doing your dirty laundry in public’. But right now the last thing we are learning about is the contents. Instead it’s been turned into a media circus all focused on the ‘rapist’, ‘traitor’ and ‘terrorist’ Assange.

Contact Your Representative RIGHT NOW on the Tax Breaks for the Wealthiest 1% By Steve Windisch

By Steve Windisch (jibbguy)
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
December 14, 2010

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Senator Bernie Sanders’ marathon speech of December 10th was a Historic Event in America. It defined, and accurately detailed, the vast problems we face as a nation. It exposed “The Open secret”: That America has failed. That we are going backwards. That poverty is growing at alarming rates. That the Middle Class, what once made America the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the planet… is now in obvious decline and in danger of destruction. That America is decaying, rotting, dying… starving and freezing… in front of our eyes… in our lifetimes. During our watch.

Wikileaks, Imperialism and the Western Media by Sean Fenley

by Sean Fenley
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
The Anything and Everything
December 14, 2010

It’s odd that what has almost never been overlooked by a single Marxist commentator in human history, seems to be “outside of the box” for many progressive “pundits” and many in the progressive sphere. Of course, after Bush pushed — the MSM willing — for his debacle/bloodbath in Mesopotamia, there seemed to be a great deal of thought put into, apparently, what many had interpreted as a purported failure of the “mainstream” press. Commentators who took this line of approach, one would almost have to wonder, if they had ever read any of the MSM’s scrawlings? And if such persons making such an argument have read the mainstream “news” media; on U.S. foreign policy and a panoply of other things, and believed what it is that they are reading, then such commentators are surely living in a surreality of their own.