Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military Commissions

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 January, 2011 For T. S. Eliot, April was the cruelest month, but for the prisoners at Guantánamo it is January — from the dashed hopes of January 2009, when President Obama swept into office issuing an executive order in which he promised to close the prison [...]

Egypt police fire tear gas as rioting erupts in Cairo

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | January 25, 2011 Thousands of anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing on top of an armoured police truck, clashed with riot police on Tuesday in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power. Police responded with blasts from a [...]

The Peoples Republic of Florida by Jim Ryerson

by Jim Ryerson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.youtube.com/user/tmanjdrjr (jim [at] travelingman [dot] net) Cuba Connections January 25, 2011 Some Cubans in Florida continue to try to live by their own rules, despite what the rest of the country does. The latest example of this idiocy came to light last week when President Obama lifted some [...]

Death by Superbug by Ralph Nader

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page January 24. 2011 Reading a recent issue of Public Citizen’s excellent Health Letter titled “Know When Antibiotics Work,” I recalled the recent tragic loss of a healthy history professor who was rushed to a fine urban hospital, with a leading infectious disease specialist by his side. No antibiotics [...]

Prisons for Profit By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com January 25, 2011 The United States, according to the New York Times , has 5% of the World’s population and 25% of all people incarcerated on the planet! In reality, in the United States, one in every hundred people are in some kind of incarceration. One [...]