Bad Moon Rising Over Great Sirte Bay by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Sirte, Libya November 18, 2011 This observer, with his sandaled feet comfortably dug into the sand of a chilly Mediterranean beach and huddled next to a camp fire with a congenial and bright group of still heavily armed “NATO rebels,” is learning that the past eight months’ experiences for [...]

“A Vision for an Emancipated Future” by Ross Wolfe

by Ross Wolfe Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Charnel-House Nov. 9, 2011 As if anticipating our own historical moment, Guy Debord once offered the following advice to anyone seeking to change the world: “Be realistic,” he insisted. “Demand the impossible!” It is perhaps no coincidence that the only politics befitting the dignity of human freedom [...]

Super Committee Deadlock: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Nov. 18, 2011 It is no great surprise that with only days to go, the congressional “super committee,” given the herculean task of carving an additional $1.2 trillion out of the federal budget, has failed to reach agreement. Why should six Republicans and six Democrats with diametrically [...]

Raven, that Lying Little Bastard by Greg Palast + Palast: MSM is Manufactured “News”

by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com Crossposted at TheMudflats.net Nov. 17, 2011 “If I had a machine gun, I’d kill every one of them white sons of bitches.” Makarka didn’t say, “white.” He used the unkind Alutiiq phrase, isuwiq-something, bleached seal. As a bleached seal myself, I couldn’t blame him, not if you [...]

Nuclear Madness: Iran, Kuwait, or the IAEA? by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 16 November 2011 “The Public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” (Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775) As the sabre rattling against Iran becomes more deafening, week on week, with threats of the nuclear insanity of potentially, deliberately, creating a few [...]