The Asbestos Industry: Valuing Profit over Safety by Eric Stevenson

by Eric Stevenson Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 24, 2011 With fewer than 200 workers, most of them part time, the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, is barely operational anymore. However, if a group of international investors called Balcorp gets its way, the mine could soon be revived, digging many tons of asbestos out of [...]

Behind the Arab revolt is a word we dare not speak by John Pilger

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by John Pilger www.truth-out.org 24 February 2011 Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared then-president George W. Bush’s daily intelligence brief. At that time, McGovern was at the apex of the “national security” monolith that is American power and [...]

Imperialism and the historical context of the developing 2011 Egyptian Bourgeois Democratic Revolution by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.

by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 24, 2011 Summary The 1952 Bourgeois Democratic Revolution was launched by the Free Officers Movement of the armed forces against the corrupt and repressive monarchy of King Farouk, under whom Egypt had become the most important lever of control and domination of the Middle East by [...]

Matt Taibbi: Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 22, 2011 “Nobody goes to jail,” writes Matt Taibbi in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. “This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of [...]

The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyranny” Replaces the “War on Terror” by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 23 February, 2011 Ten years ago, in July 2001, 200,000 protestors converged on Genova, Italy, to disrupt the 27th G8 Summit, at which the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US — plus the President of the European Commission — were [...]