How Debs became a socialist by Paul D’Amato (1989)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Paul D’Amato SocialistWorker.org February 18, 2011 In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket and received a million votes–even though he was serving a prison term for speaking out against the First World War. In his day, Debs was well known as a great labor leader and socialist [...]

Tawtin or Return by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Beirut, Lebanon February 19, 2011 Lebanese opponents of civil rights for Palestinian Refugees often use less objective and more crude wording to define “tawtin” (“settlement”) than is normally employed in civil society discussions. During last summer’s debate in parliament, which failed to enact laws that would allow the [...]

Is This the Beginning of The Second American Revolution? By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com February 19, 2011 What’s happening in Wisconsin is only a prelude to what is eventually going to happen all over the country. This nation is backsliding into a time when there were no Unions and people were being taken advantage of by those that employed them. [...]

Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism February 19, 2011 A recent article in Kenya’s Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership treaty with the 53-nation AU. The author of the article, [...]

Egypt… Awakening, 2011 By Gary Corseri

By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 19, 2011 “The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” –William Butler Yeats