Tom Barry’s Border Wars, reviewed by Guadamour

by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dec. 9, 2011 In his important book, Border Wars (MIT Press, 2011) Tom Barry writes: I found that the border security push has injected new life into the war on drugs by reconfiguring those failed policies as vital components of national security.  Immigration  control, too, has been swallowed by the [...]

Time to Save the Post Office by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Dec. 7, 2011 The battered national consensus behind a national universal postal service–conceived by Benjamin Franklin–is heading for a free fall due to bad management, corporate barracudas and a bevy of editors and reporters enamored with the supremacy of the Internet which makes up their world. Postmaster [...]

Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy By Michael Hudson

with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Dec. 7, 2011 CapitalAccount on Dec 7, 2011 Eurozone leaders scramble for a solution to the European debt crisis, with Timothy Geithner joining the party now, and as Obama makes his rounds to small towns in the US asphyxiated with debt. S&P issues downgrade warnings for Europe, [...]

Deal clinched at UN climate meet at Durban + Zombie Agreement From COP 17

Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish on Dec 10, 2011 Delegates at the UN Climate Summit in South African port city of Durban have finally reached a deal that aims to extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol by five more years and launch talks towards a successor treaty. The new treaty will have binding agreement for developed and developing [...]

Michael Parenti: The Empire Kills Millions!

with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Dec. 6, 2011 blackiron60 on Dec 6, 2011 Michael Parenti speaks at the University of Guelph, November 2 2011.