Urban Farming for Food Security

Dandelion Salad FluxRostrum | Feb 26, 2011 Will Allen and the Growing Power team presented workshops on farming in urban settings and empowering youth and low income neighborhoods with fresh local produce at Our School at Blair Grocery.

No Other Way Out by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 28, 2011 I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped apart by iron fragments or bullets tumbling [...]

Libya: The Empire strikes back By William Bowles

by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info Crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation February 28, 2011 Pre-amble: I started writing this before events in Libya escalated, but it illustrates why it is imperative that we understand what exactly is going on in the Middle East and North Africa, especially when it comes to distinguishing between our [...]

It’s Well Past Time to Start Taking Peak Oil Seriously by Jeremy R. Hammond

by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal February 28, 2011 Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with his second pick being, “The world must adapt quickly to the end [...]

Exclusive: Blessed are the destitute, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven by Rocket Kirchner

by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) February 27, 2011 In Aristophanes play Plutus, the god of wealth Plutus declares to Poverty and Destitution that they are like two sisters. Right away Poverty makes it crystal clear that they are not the same. Poverty states that Destitution has [...]