How the Bailout Killed Local Lending by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com July 1, 2011 “Wall Street banks have cut back on small business lending… [by] more than double the cutback in overall lending.… [Small business] options just keep disappearing.” -Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel The Wall Street bailout of 2008 has radically altered the banking business.

Libya: Unending American hostility by William Blum

by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 3 July, 2011 Libya: Unending American hostility If I could publicly ask our beloved president one question, it would be this: “Mr. President, in your short time in office you’ve waged war against six countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. This makes me wonder something. [...]

Free Speech – At a Price by Michael Parenti (1996)

by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org July 1, 2011 Excerpted from Dirty Truths. What does it mean to say we have freedom of speech? Many of us think free speech is a right enjoyed by everyone in our society. In fact, it does not exist as an abstract right. There is no such thing [...]