Saudi and Emirati Forces Open Fire on Unarmed Protesters in Bahrain by Finian Cunningham + video

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 24, 2011 A shocking new video shows Saudi and Emirati forces firing indiscriminately at a crowd of unarmed youth protesting against the autocratic US-backed Bahraini government [See video below]. The attack took place after Friday prayers in the Shia village of Duraz, about 15 kilometres west of the [...]

Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org July 23, 2011 We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is destroying the middle class except for one big problem: so much of the American population is just plain stupid.  Too stupid to [...]

Rick Rozoff: U.S. Afghan Strategy: Senseless And Merciless

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism July 22, 2011 Voice of Russia July 22, 2011 US Afghan strategy: senseless and merciless John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global Research.ca in Canada.

The Future Is Palestine by Jeremy R. Hammond

With kind permission to republish from www.palestinechronicle.com/ by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal Special to the Palestine Chronicle. July 19, 2011 photo by Rusty Stewart The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real [...]

Trouble by Mark A. Goldman

by Mark A. Goldman Guest Writer Dandelion Salad www.gpln.com July 21, 2011 Trouble!  We got trouble, my friends, right here in River City!  Trouble, trouble… trouble. Politicians these days seem to end every address they make with the prayer… “… and God Bless America!”   God hears. Trouble.  We got trouble.