Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: Libya, Obama, and the Five-Second Rule

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://foknewschannel.com March 23, 2011 We all know “the five second rule.” Drop food on the floor and if you pick it up before that span of time elapses, and it’ll still be “good.” There is also a life-and-death version of this: the five-day rule, by which we have surrendered to any U.S. President the [...]

Unrest and violence keep shaking the Arab world – interview with Finian Cunningham

with Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 26, 2011 used with permission photo by Darren Shanahan All rights reserved RT In Bahrain, people have once again taken to the streets in defiance of a ban on public gatherings, and a series of violent crackdowns. [...] Journalist and author Finian Cunningham says even though the regimes in [...]

Keeping The State’s Money In The State: An Alternative Solution To The Budget Crisis by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com March 26, 2011 Cut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets – these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation; but the budget crises now being suffered by nearly all the states did not arise from too much spending or too little taxation. They arose from [...]

Out in Force: 300,000 to march in London anti-cuts protest

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ used with permission photo by William Bowles http://williambowles.info/ RussiaToday on Mar 26, 2011 100 to 300 thousand people are expected to take part in what’s set to be the UK’s biggest political demonstration for a decade. Mass protests are planned across the British capital to oppose the government’s 80 billion pound spending cuts. The austerity [...]

Chris Hedges: Our Liberal Class failed us

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad March 25, 2011 joefriendly on Mar 24, 2011 Chris Hedges, author of Death of the Liberal Class, talking with Ethical Culture Society of NY Leader Joe Chuman about how {blurb from publisher, The Nation: } “for decades the liberal class defended all Americans against the worst excesses of power. But [...]