The Left has lost its way over Libya By William Bowles

by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 26 July, 2011 In an essentially excellent piece Sarah Flounders’ ‘Libya: Demonization and Self-determination‘, near the beginning under the sub-head ‘What should be the response to this terror?’ she writes: “Unfortunately, a minority of groups or individuals who present themselves as opponents of war spend more time cataloguing [...]

Gravity Breakthrough: Springing into a Gravitational Revolution By Roland Michel Tremblay

By Roland Michel Tremblay Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Marginal 27 July, 2011 Gravity is one of the most familiar everyday phenomena, yet it has mystified scientists and laymen for centuries. Even today, although the current official position on gravity is a continual “space-time warping” around objects – a claim from Einstein’s General Relativity theory, it is also [...]

The US and the New Middle East: The Gulf

Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish on Jul 26, 2011 Fault Lines’ Seb Walker travels to the Gulf to look at US policy in the region, and to explore why the United States has taken an interventionist policy in Libya, but not in Bahrain, where there has been a brutal crackdown on protesters. Why does the White House strongly back [...]

Fundamentalism Kills by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 26, 2011 The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and those defined as [...]

Michael Hudson: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling In Order To Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda

Dandelion Salad democracynow on Jul 22, 2011 President Obama and Republican House speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both Congressional Democrats and Republicans — part of it [...]