Bahrain: Nailing the Lie in Washington’s Rhetoric on the Arab Spring by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 11 November 2011 US ally Bahrain continued its crackdown against popular calls for democratic rights with the illegal arrest and detention this week of prominent journalist and commentator Jaffar Al Alawy. To date, nearly 100 journalists, poets, bloggers and media figures have been targeted for detention by [...]

Cornel West: As a Nation, We Have the Blues (2003)

Dandelion Salad ThisBoyTV on Nov 7, 2011 Dr. West has written and co-authored numerous books on philosophy, race and sociology. His Race Matters won a Critics Choice Award and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992. Other works included Keeping the Faith: Philosophy and Race in American and [...]

Ellen Brown: Occupy LA Teach-In

with Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Nov. 9, 2011 OccupyLAMedia on Nov 8, 2011

Michael Parenti: Combating Imperialism: Occupy

with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Nov. 12, 2011 By Ryan Sparrow, Riaz Sayani-Mulji rabble.ca November 10, 2011 On this week’s episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with world-renowned author, political scientist and activist Dr. Michael Parenti. Imperialism from the classical and modern context, as well as its relation to [...]

Overcoming Corporatism by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Nov. 10, 2011 The organizers of the spreading Occupy initiative are taking their awareness and moral indignation right to corporate territory–Wall Street, the corporate lobbies in Washington, D.C. and their likes around the nation. The denizens of corporate territory have taken notice, with varying degrees of alarm, [...]