A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Driven by Revulsion at the Murder of Innocents by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
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Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
19 June, 2011

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When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves from everyday reality, like Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic who lived on a tiny platform on top of a pillar in Aleppo, Syria for 37 years in the 5th century AD.

Get Up and Stand Up To A Review by Guadamour

by Guadamour
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
June 19, 2011

In Get Up, Stand Up—Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, And Battling The Corporate Elite, (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011) Bruce E. Levine, a PhD clinical psychologist, doesn’t come anywhere near to living up to the over-blown, and pompous title of his well written and readable book. To Levine’s credit he gives an accurate assessment of Barack Obama before he was elected and his record which doesn’t allow for the alleged ‘Progressives’ to bemoan the fact they were lied to by now President in Corporate America, Obama.

European Spring: The Gradual demise of Capitalism by Gaither Stewart

by Gaither Stewart
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Dandelion Salad
19 June, 2011
Rome

It’s an accumulative kind of thing, the demise of capitalism worldwide: at first the waning and the dwindling, now the rapid corkscrew-like downwards spiraling, of greedy, vicious, cannibalistic capitalism busily devouring itself. Today, one can only conclude the imminence of its just demise.

Two Capitalisms by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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Dandelion Salad
www.foavc.org
June 19, 2011

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With a kind of religious fervor, American conservatives love to talk about their love of capitalism, as if it has a singular definition and can always be counted on to serve public and national interests.  The intelligent way to think about capitalism is that it can be of two kinds. 

Happy Father’s Day… **** Happens! by Philip A. Farruggio

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by Philip A. Farruggio
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Dandelion Salad
June 18, 2011

To all the fathers of Iraqi, Afghan & Libyan children killed, disfigured or diseased by United States WMDs, depleted uranium or plain old economic deprivation….  Happy father’s day.

To all the fathers of United States soldiers killed, wounded or traumatized for life by phony wars and occupations… happy father’s day.