The Great Brainwashing… Continues! by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 Replaced text July 22, 2011 We have failed as both a nation and a people. True, there are those of us out there who see through the hype and the rhetoric. Sadly, it is but a small minority, a tiny club of citizens who refuse [...]

What Is Sadr’s Game on Future U.S. Troop Presence? by Gareth Porter

by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 14 July, 2011 WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) – The big question looming over U.S.-Iraqi negotiations on a U.S. military presence after 2011 is what game Shi’a leader Moqtada al-Sadr is playing on the issue. U.S. officials regard Sadr as still resisting the U.S. military presence illegally [...]

Chinook Disaster: Did Britain Sacrifice Counterinsurgency Top Brass To Defeat Irish Republicans? by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 Belfast, Ireland After 17 years, two Royal Air Force pilots were finally cleared this week of any wrongdoing in the fatal Chinook helicopter crash that wiped out Britain’s top counterinsurgency personnel in Northern Ireland in the summer of 1994.

Andrew Gavin Marshall: Full-Scale NATO Ground Invasion of Libya is Imminent

with Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 GlobalResearchTV on Jul 14, 2011 Andrew Gavin Marshall from the Centre for Research on Globalization says that a ground invasion is quite likely, and that the process is already underway.

Tunisia, Shousha – We are dying slowly

Dandelion Salad msfuk on Jul 14, 2011 Since the start of the Libyan conflict in February, over 250,000 of people have passed through the Ras Ajdir transitory camps, located at the northern Tunisia-Libya border.