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 [...]

European Spring: The Gradual demise of Capitalism by Gaither Stewart

by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer 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 Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org June 19, 2011 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 [...]

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

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer 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 [...]

Learning from the Community of the Land By Shepherd Bliss

By Shepherd Bliss Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.vowvop.org June 18, 2011 While recently shoveling aged horse manure around berry vines on my small organic farm to fertilize them, which gives me great pleasure, I thought about what I have learned about the community of the land by farming over the last two decades. I noticed [...]