Robert Penn Warren in True Life: The Politician, by Andrew Young

by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 22, 2010 There’s two good ways of looking at Andrew Young’s new book on John Edwards. First way is that it is a National Enquirer sort of trashy cashin dishing out all the inside dirt on John Edwards and his sex life, mostly at the expense [...]

More Evidence of Medical Experimentation at Guantánamo

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 22 December, 2010 In an investigative report for Truthout, my colleagues Jason Leopold and the psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye have followed up on an important story they published three weeks ago, “Controversial Drug Given to All Guantánamo Detainees Akin to ‘Pharmacologic Waterboarding’” (which I cross-posted here, [...]

World’s Largest Environmental Lawsuit in Ecuador

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | December 21, 2010 30,000 natives fight for compensation against Texaco (now Chevron), accused of 3 decades of toxic dumping in Amazon

Terrorist by Association by Jeremy Gantz

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Jeremy Gantz In These Times December 13, 2010 September 24 began like any other Friday for Joe Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner. Then, at 7 a.m., FBI agents knocked on the door of the Chicago couple’s house in the city’s North Side. Armed with a search warrant, more than 20 agents examined the couple’s [...]

Toby Hemenway: How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ nicholasschoolatduke | September 22, 2010 Hemenway is a frequent teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design throughout the U.S. and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review and American Gardener. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Education at Portland State [...]