Deaths as Hurricane Irene batters U.S. East Coast

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish on Aug 27, 2011 Millions of people are taking shelter along the American east coast. Hurricane Irene is not the most powerful storm on record, but still large enough to cause damage.

Chris Hedges: Obama: Brand for the Corporate State

with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 25, 2011 TheAlyonaShow on Aug 24, 2011 Chris Hedges is on the show to discuss Libya, the imperial presidency as he calls it, and our already-bought supposedly bipartisan super committee that’s about to unleash drastic cuts on the American people.

Hamptons Hurricane: A Bankers’ Katrina by Greg Palast + Katrina Victims Still Seek Justice

Updated: Aug. 29, 2011 added video by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com August 26, 2011 Don’t worry:  the bankers are safe.  The sub-prime sharks, derivatives divas, media mavens and their hairdressers, their trophy wives and their trophies’ personal trainers, the movers and shakers and money-makers, are all out of danger. Despite the warning that in [...]

American Decline: Causes and Consequences by Noam Chomsky

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Noam Chomsky Al Akhbar English August 24, 2011 In the 2011 summer issue of the journal of the American Academy of Political Science, we read that it is “a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power [...]

Rep. Jean Schmidt Found Guilty of Accepting $500,000 in ‘Indirect’ Turkish Lobby Payment by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post August 24, 2011 The Revered Bruce Fein & Foreign Lobby Dollars in the Form of Illegal Payment of Legal Bills I’ve been meaning to write about this for weeks, and just got around doing it. Maybe the subconscious procrastination was due to the conscious [...]