Michael Parenti: Privatization of Libya + The Face of Imperialism + Christian Parenti: Tropic of Chaos

with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org August 27, 2011 http://rt.com/ August 21, 2011 Political scientist Michael Parenti, based in Berkeley, California, says protecting civilians was just a pretext for NATO to step into Libya, topple Gaddafi and redirect the country’s economy.

War by Deception (repost)

Dandelion Salad Dandelion Salad Update: Aug. 21, 2011; added the Director’s Cut version, see below.  Feb 20, 2008 How a Zionist cabal planned and faked evidence and news stories to create a war with Iraq and the ultimate false flag 9/11. The Pentagon is the largest corporation in the world and it runs the US [...]

The Election March of the Trolls by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 29, 2011 We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities until the final inanity—the [...]

We have no bargaining power with Obama by Ralph Nader

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 29, 2011 This is the second week of protests, led by Bill McKibben, in front of the White House demanding that President Barack Obama reject a proposed 1700 mile pipeline transporting the dirtiest oil from Alberta, Canada through fragile ecologies down to the Gulf Coast refineries. One [...]

Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress

with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 24, 2011 The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC Former New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges tells us what he calls “the myth of human progress” and looks at the underlying causes of global conflict.