The Troubling Case of Saif Gadhafi by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Zintan, Libya November 25, 2011 Despite the claims of the National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC)  that  Saif al Islam Gadhafi, the apprehended subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant that ordered his transport to The Hague, is in a secure hidden location near Zintan, Libya, a town [...]

Occupy Everywhere! by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Nov. 23, 2011 From New York City to Oakland, and several cities in between, the police, on orders from city officials, have smashed the Occupy encampments and evicted the protestors from public parks and spaces. More politicians from Congress to the state and local level want the [...]

Britain’s Cover-Up of Inside Job in Fatal RAF Chinook Crash by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 20 November 2011 Evidence points to liquidation of British counterinsurgency team to trick Irish republicans into a defeating political process For 17 years the British authorities have lied about the fatal RAF helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in which 25 senior counterinsurgency personnel were killed. [...]

Will the UN insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya? by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Benghazi, Libya November 22, 2011 An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court (Mahkamat al-Sha’b) and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where on December 19, 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences by firing [...]

“There is No Honor in Police Brutality” by Jill Dalton

by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad recoveringarmybrat Nov. 21, 2011 I met Sgt. Shamar Thomas at the rally against Police Brutality on 10/22/11 in Union Square, New York City. This was right after his famous rant against the NYPD had gone viral. Sgt. Thomas served 14 months in Iraq and the war has been [...]