Roger Doiron: A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard

Dandelion Salad TEDxTalks on Oct 22, 2011 Roger Doiron is founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of people taking a hands-on approach to re-localizing the global food supply. Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies, investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. His successful petition to replant a kitchen garden [...]

Simon Patten on Public Infrastructure and Economic Rent Capture by Michael Hudson

by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com October 17, 2011 As published in American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 70, No. 4 (October, 2011). *The author acknowledges funding from Prosper Australia in support of this article. ABSTRACT. Reflecting the Progressive Era’s reform agenda Simon Patten (1852–1922) argued that freeing markets from one source [...]

How to Stop a Multinational

Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish on Oct 12, 2011 Three Argentinians put themselves in harm’s way as they try to stop a gold mining company destroying their environment.

Occupy Wall Street Visited by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org October 18, 2011 Last Saturday while in New York City I went downtown to visit the Occupy Wall Street group and also ended up walking in their protest march around big bank buildings. A terrific experience with a huge group chanting things like “Banks got bailed [...]

Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen

Dandelion Salad democracynow on Oct 18, 2011 MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world renewed linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. Democracy Now! airs an excerpt of his address.