Lawrence Wilkerson: Dissent is the Highest form of Patriotism

Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jan 4, 2012 Col. Larry Wilkerson speaks at Sam Adams Awards ceremony honoring Jesselyn Radack and Thomas Drake [November 21, 2011]

Obama versus civil liberties

Dandelion Salad Editorial SocialistWorker.org Jan. 4, 2012 Far from being the exception, the undermining of constitutional rights is standard operating procedure under capitalism, regardless of which politicians are in charge. THE U.S. military can indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial–that’s the latest of our supposedly “inalienable rights” sacrificed by the Democratic former constitutional law professor [...]

The crime of privatized prisons by Lamont Lilly

Dandelion Salad By Lamont Lilly www.workers.org Jan. 5, 2012 Here in the U.S., our “land of the free,” there are approximately 130,000 inmates now housed in privately owned prisons. It‘s a foul stench within a justice system that leads the world in number of people incarcerated within a state, federal or private institution. The latest [...]

Garbage Warrior (2008)

Dandelion Salad ricardoivanh on May 20, 2011 About Garbage Warrior What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples [...]

Organized Terror and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com January 3, 2012 A brief note from The People’s Book Project: Welcome to 2012: The Book Project and the World We Live In The following is Part 2 of a sample on The Origins of Imperial Israel from an upcoming book supported through The People’s Book [...]