Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World by Michael Parenti (2007)

by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org July 31, 2011 Originally published and crossposted from www.commondreams.org February 16, 2007 There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? [...]

Billion Dollar Bill Shows How Foreign Aid Works

Dandelion Salad RenegadeEconomist on Jul 29, 2011 Let him show you how aid deals really work… In short poverty is manmade by amoral people like Bill. It is not conspiracy — it’s structural economic behaviour locked into Western Foreign Policy and therefore the global economy. It’s branded aid but really its neo-colonialism.

Travels of a New Gulliver: Chapter 1 by Joseph Natoli

by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad July 27, 2011 Chapter I In which the Author introduces himself and then sets out What follows here is a very loose account of my voyages into the world of talk as found, often accidentally, often against my own will, and seldom as I hoped. I took with me [...]

The Debt Ceiling Set For Progressive Repealing by Michael Hudson

Dandelion Salad by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research July 29, 2011 Mr. Obama’s scare tactics to get Democrats to vote for his Republican Wall Street plan The Wall Street bailout melodrama should be viewed as a dress rehearsal for today’s debt-ceiling non-crisis. You know that the debt kerfuffle is as melodramatically staged as a World [...]

Austerity has to visit the super-rich by William Blum

by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 28 July, 2011 Arguing Libya On July 9 I took part in a demonstration in front of the White House, the theme of which was “Stop Bombing Libya”. The last time I had taken part in a protest against US bombing of a foreign country, which the White [...]