Barack Obama signs H.R. 1540, NDAA into law

Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 31, 2011 Statement by the President on H.R. 1540 Today I have signed into law H.R. 1540, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.” I have signed the Act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense [...]

Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, “Serial Fabricators” and the Tale of Iran and 9/11 by Gareth Porter

by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at www.truth-out.org Dec. 29, 2011 Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about “finding of fact” by a District judge in Manhattan Friday that Iran assisted al Qaeda in the planning of the 9/11 attacks is a tapestry of recycled fabrications and distortions of fact from [...]

Students of California, arise, you have nothing to lose but a crushing debt! by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Dec. 28, 2011 The corporate state of California, ever ready to seize its ideological and commercial hour during a recession, has a chokehold on California’s public universities. With its tax-coddled plutocracy and a nod to further corporatization, the state government has taken the lid off tuition increases [...]

Oil Slick From Massive Spill in Nigeria Threatens Coastline, Maybe Largest Spill in a Decade

Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 27, 2011 DemocracyNow.org – Communities along Nigeria’s Niger Delta have been put on alert following a major oil spill from the oil giant, Shell. The massive oil slick is making its way to the Nigerian coast, threatening local wildlife and massive pollution along the shore. Much of the available information [...]

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (2002; must-see)

Dandelion Salad Please turn off your TV. Forever. ~ DS by Spread Knowledge http://vimeo.com/33442989 Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the “liberal media.” Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so [...]