Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties by Gareth Porter

by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 22 May, 2011 WASHINGTON, May 22, 2011 (IPS) – The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious [...]

“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 16th Installment: Chapter Fifteen: 2015: The National Plan for Social Peace

Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Fourteen can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on TPJmagazine.us May 22, 2011 This is the sixteenth installment of the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. Herein [...]

Mickey Huff: Project Censored – Censorship, Propaganda and Corporate Media

Dandelion Salad AbbyMediaRoots on May 21, 2011 MIckey Huff, Director of Project Censored, speaks at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA on May 19, 2011. Mickey discusses censorship in the media landscape, Project Censored’s history, evolution, organizational mission and their 2011 book uncovering the top 25 most censored stories from 2010.

Pepe Escobar: The Hijacking of the Arab Spring Protests, interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds

by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post May 21, 2011 Pepe Escobar returns to our show to discuss the ever-changing, constantly-shifting, and holes-filled script in the US raid that allegedly killed Osama bin Laden. He reports on the news accounts on the Arab uprising in Egypt and [...]

Two Views on Israel by Guadamour

Updated: Aug. 23, 2011 added a video by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad May 21, 2011 photo by Rusty Stewart Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works Some rights reserved Book reviews of Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer (Hachette Book Group, 2009) and Spy Trade by Grant F. Smith (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern [...]