Chris Hedges: Love is the most potent enemy of war (2004)

with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 11, 2011 Transcript [...] War time always brings with it this comradeship, which is the opposite of friendship. Friends, as J. Glenn Gray points out in his book “The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle,” are predetermined. Friendship takes place between men and women who possess an intellectual and emotional [...]

Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness… By the Ruling Class by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 11 August, 2011 After a conflagration of arson attacks, riots and looting in several British cities, including the capital, London, there is a sense of order having been restored from a massive mobilisation of police forces. There now follows the tracking down and prosecution of individuals involved in the [...]

Riots in UK Could Forshadow Events in the US by Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com August 13, 2011 The British government has charged that the riots are being caused by an increase in “criminality”. This is patently ridiculous. What is the difference in London or Manchester now than last year? If these riots are presumed to be the act of “criminals”, [...]

An Empire Filled With Fools by Philip A. Farruggio

by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 12, 2011 In William Wellman’s riveting 1943 drama “The Ox Bow Incident”, we find parallels to many illegal and immoral acts committed by those who are supposed to lead us. In the film, a rancher is ‘supposedly’ murdered by rustlers. A group of townspeople decide to [...]

The Intimately Oppressed by Howard Zinn

by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at www.greanvillepost.com, July 20, 2011 August 12, 2011 Chapter 6 from A People’s History of the United States. It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The [...]