The American Empire in Latin America: “Democracy” is a Threat to “National Security” by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Dec. 14, 2011 NOTE: This is an excerpt from a chapter in a current book-in-progress being funded through The People’s Book Project. The chapter is on the American Empire’s early implementation of its “Grand Area” designs in Latin America, as defined by the Council on Foreign [...]

Hitchens vs. Hitchens – Christopher and Peter Hitchens Debate (2008)

Dandelion Salad HauensteinCenter on Jun 15, 2011 Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion. April 3, 2008 – Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens debate the Iraq War and religion at an event organized by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies with support from the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue [...]

Patrick Bond: Climate Change and the Failure of Market Mechanisms

Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Dec 18, 2011 Patrick Bond: Carbon markets failing and Durban Green Climate Fund doomed – up to activists now

Pennsylvania Legislators Shoot Down Pigeons—Again by Walter Brasch

by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com December 17, 2011 If the first year gross anatomy class at the Penn State Hershey medical school needs spare body parts to study, they can visit the cloak room of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. That’s where most of the legislators left their spines. The House voted 124–69, [...]

Christopher Hitchens, Once Vidal’s Dauphin, Now Cosmic Stardust! by Sean Fenley

by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything December 17, 2011 Good ole Hitch is gone, once one of the most prescient and incisive critics of American imperialism — he cheerled for it — during the abominable administration of George W. Bush. Still a record as impressive as his should not be eviscerated, [...]