Saeed al-Shahabi: Bahrain talks doomed to failure

Dandelion Salad PressTVGlobalNews on Jul 13, 2011 The ongoing negotiation between Bahrain’s opposition and the Al Khalifa regime is “futile” as it fails to address the real demands of the people, says an activist.

The Brutal Murder of Vittorio Arrigoni is Still Shrouded in Mystery by Nicola LoFoco (translation by Daniela Loffreda)

Sent to DS from Daniela Loffreda. by Nicola LoFoco translation by Daniela Loffreda Guest Writer Dandelion Salad July 13, 2011 Three months have passed since April 15, 2011, that damned day when Vittorio Arrigoni’s life was ripped away from us at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. The truth surrounding his disappearance and the reasons of who [...]

Michael Hudson: Guns, Finance and Butter – Finance Is the New Mode of Warfare

Dandelion Salad Updated: July 16, 2011; added transcript with Michael Hudson Bonnie Faulkner Guns and Butter July 13, 2011 The jobless recovery; the debt ceiling and default; China; Greece; banks, not countries, receive the bailouts; financial warfare; IMF and EU; European Central Bank; US credit default swaps; US agricultural exports create food dependency; currency devaluation devalues [...]

Time to Look at the New Heirs ala CIA by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post July 13, 2011 There is no point in wasting too many words and space rehashing what every media outlet has been reporting and recounting on the assassination of Afghan Heroin Kingpin Ahmed Wali Karzai. The US media began reporting on the Kingpin, his heroin network and [...]

Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism, July 6, 2011 July 13, 2011 Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. The strike was the first acknowledged Pentagon [...]