America is No Example of Democracy By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 10, 2011 It’s very telling that the United States will not give any indication that actually makes any kind of statement on the Egyptian revolution and where America stands on the subject. It’s apparent that the U.S. doesn’t want to show it’s hand until all [...]

Pacified and Lulled, Still Waiting for the Pendulum to Swing by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post February 10, 2011 It was a rainy April day in 2004, and I was in the office of one of my professors at the university’s Public Policy Graduate Department. I was having one of those defeated and disillusioned moments that kept recurring [...]

The New York Times backs the Egyptian army By William Bowles

By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 10 February, 2011 “The command of Egypt’s military stepped forward Thursday in an attempt to stop a three-week-old uprising, declaring on state television it would take measures “to maintain the homeland and the achievements and the aspirations of the great people of Egypt” and meet the demands [...]

America’s Strategic Repression of the “Arab Awakening” by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 10, 2011 North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 2 Overview In Part 1 of this series, I analyzed the changing nature of the Arab world, in experiencing an uprising as a result of the ‘Global Political Awakening.’ Ultimately, I assessed that these could potentially [...]

Cindy Sheehan: How the anti-war movement is asleep under Obama

Updated: Mar. 4, 2011 added video with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox February 10, 2011 Update AbbyMediaRoots on Mar 2, 2011