Middle East: the Undoing of America’s Mendacious Foreign Policy by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 January, 2011 There may be plumes of acrid smoke rising from burning tyres in cities across the Middle East, but there is the discernible whiff of something else – fear. And it is not so much fear among the tens of thousands of people who are taking to [...]

A Socialist Response to the State of the Union by Billy Wharton

by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://socialistpartynyc.blogspot.com January 25, 2011 Obama Out of Touch with the American People Tonight’s State of the Union speech revealed just how far out of touch President Barack Obama is from the reality of working people in America. What a distance from the White House to the unemployment line. [...]

“Ask Not What Your Country Blah Blah Blah,” and Other Ridiculous Memes By Gary Corseri

By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 27, 2011 “Truly men hate the truth; they’d liefer Meet a tiger on the road.” — Robinson Jeffers What it’s not First, let’s clarify: a “meme” (rhymes with “scream”) is not what Sarah Palin says when she goes on a family outing with her daughter; as in, [...]

Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism January 26, 2011 The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troops, almost two-thirds American and the [...]

Will the Last Mercenary Turn Out the Lights On U.S. Empire by Glen Ford

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Black Agenda Report 25 January 2011 The United States’ use of mercenaries is unprecedented in scope for a major power in modern times, and further weakens a decaying empire. Unable to defeat the resistance in two of the poorest nations on the planet, America increasingly depends [...]