Has President Obama Failed Labor and the Environment? by Walter Brasch

by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com July 17, 2011 After significant compromise with the recalcitrant Republicans who want to continue to give the wealthy tax advantages while cutting significant social programs, President Obama has finally taken a stand on debt ceiling negotiations. However, in labor, wildlife management, and the environment he is still compromising [...]

James Bamford: The Secrecy of the Obama Administration , interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds + Thomas Drake sentenced for info leak

Updated: July 17, 2011; added video by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post July 17, 2011 James Bamford joins us to discuss the case of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, the government’s overreach in bringing espionage charges against him, and the Obama Administration’s unprecedented level of retaliation against government whistleblowers. [...]

You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It, Too by Frank Joseph Smecker and Derrick Jensen

Dandelion Salad by Frank Joseph Smecker and Derrick Jensen Truthout July 16, 2011 Let’s expose the structure of violence that keeps the world economy running. With an entire planet being slaughtered before our eyes, it’s terrifying to watch the very culture responsible for this – the culture of industrial civilization, fueled by a finite source [...]

The Great Global Debt Depression: It’s All Greek To Me by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 15, 2011 In late June of 2011, the Greek government passed another round of austerity measures, ostensibly aimed at getting Greece “back on track” to economic progress, but in reality, implementing a systematic program of ‘social genocide’ in the name of servicing an endless and illegitimate debt [...]

Obama, Claiming the Republican agenda as his own

Dandelion Salad Editorial SocialistWorker.org July 13, 2011 By proposing cuts in programs like Social Security, Obama is emboldening the right. TURNS OUT the president many expected to revive the New Deal is out to bury it instead. That’s the inescapable conclusion following President Barack Obama’s offer to trade cuts in the Social Security and Medicare