Thousands of Saudi troops cross into Bahrain after weekend of violence by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted from Irish Times March 15, 2011 Manama used with permission photo by Darren Shanahan All rights reserved There was a defiant mood last night among Bahrain’s pro-democracy protesters who said they viewed the unprecedented intervention of between 2,000 and 6,000 Saudi-led troops as “an illegal occupation”. Numbers at the protest [...]

Japan’s Tragedy Provides Us All an Opportunity to Show that We Have a Heart by Brian McAfee

by Brian McAfee Guest Writer Dandelion Salad March 15, 2011 The severe blow from nature with which the Japanese people were struck with on Friday, March eleventh purportedly took the lives of over ten thousand people while forever altering the lives and emotional well-being of hundreds of thousands more.  The need to address the multifaceted nature and ongoing [...]

Harvey Wasserman: Spent Nuclear Fuel – The Real Danger?

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ [replaced video] TheRealNews on Mar 15, 2011 Harvey Wasserman: In Japan and around the world problem of storing spent nuclear fuel still not solved; Could be another Chernobyl [...] WYSHAM: So, Harvey, let’s start with the latest information that we have coming out of Fukushima. How many reactors exactly are in a state of crisis?

Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin by Alex Smith

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Sent to DS by the author. by Alex Smith http://www.ecoshock.info March 14, 2011 Japan’s nuclear crisis on Monday is now more serious than ever before. This is Alex Smith, host of the weekly program Radio Ecoshock, with Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #3, at noon Pacific Time, Monday March 14. As you know from spectacular news [...]

A Good Look at the Countries America Loves to Hate By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com March 15, 2011 Recently I heard President Obama say that Gadhafi of Libya “Is on the wrong side of history”. The truth is that Obama is on the wrong side of history. Gunboat diplomacy is a thing of the past. The world has become much more [...]