All empires eventually eat away at their own and devour themselves by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page August 31, 2011 The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance of first responders and our [...]

Looming Tragedy: As NATO Members Eat, Libyans Starve by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 2 September 2011 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.) As Eid, the great post Ramadan celebration of that month of abstinence, self sacrifice and reflection, dawned on Libya, marked there this year on August 31st, the NATO “liberated” country, after seven months, [...]

A Reflection on Dick Cheney, U.S. Terrorist by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer August 31, 2011 Dick Cheney, now touting his very warped version of reality in his book, is nothing less than a war criminal and a torturer, of course, and, as Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin suggests, his book should rightly be placed in the crime section of bookstores. In [...]

Rick Rozoff: Libya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third Continent

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism August 31, 2011 Voice of Russia August 31, 2011 Libya: Another country for NATO to take root in John Robles Interview conducted on August 27 with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer [...]

Voterism: A Government for The New Millennium by William John Cox

by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org August 31, 2011 Are you tired of trying to figure out if there’s any real difference between Republican and Democratic politicians, and whether there’s a difference between liberals and progressives, libertarians and anarchists, independents and moderates, or tea partiers and neoconservatives? Are you fed up with [...]