Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism” with Ralph Nader, Ted Howard and John Cavanagh

Dandelion Salad DemocracyCollab on Dec 8, 2011 With Ralph Nader, Ted Howard and John Cavanagh http://www.facebook.com/events/240210929373217/ The Occupy movement now building around the country is a necessary and justified response to the outrages of a political-economic system that looks the other way as the top 1 percent runs off with almost a fourth of the [...]

Anthony Arnove and Noam Chomsky Honor Howard Zinn + Q&A

In honor of Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dec. 8, 2011 “But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.” — Howard Zinn

For the Radical Left: Audacity, More Audacity by Samir Amin

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/ by Samir Amin Socialist Project | The Bullet Dec. 6, 2011 The historical circumstances created by the implosion of contemporary capitalism requires the radical left, in the North as well as the South, to be bold in formulating its political alternative to the existing system. The purpose of this [...]

Pearl Harbor: 70 Years on, Is Iran the New Japan? by Finian Cunningham + Kucinich: War with Iran! Are you kidding me? + Wilkerson: US War with Iran ’3 yrs. Away’

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 9 December 2011 Is Iran the new Japan – 70 years after the Pearl Harbour incident that led to a US declaration of war and an unspeakable nuclear nightmare? Two concurrent articles on Global Research deserve close reading because taken together they suggest that history is in [...]

Sources in a World of Information by Sean Fenley

by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything December 6, 2011 “It’s amazing how much the Internet has changed our lives. People get emails that make accusations without foundation and they are circulated around the country within seconds and suddenly become topics of conversations around water coolers or in lunchrooms.” – Tim Russert