Joe Lauria: Corruption within the Afghan government

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
November 20, 2009
Joe Lauria relates the latest developments in the United Nations, including the controversies involving the elections in Afghanistan, the removal of Peter Galbraith, and the liability of having an American as the second man in office. He discusses the recent [...]

The Great Stimulus Debate of ‘09 – “Crybabies need not apply” By Mike Whitney

Dandelion Salad
By Mike Whitney
ICH
November 20, 2009
Barack Obama has decided to push the economy back into recession, and no one can figure out why. Perhaps the impressionable Obama has come under the spell of the deficit hawks and crystal gazers who see Armageddon around every corner. Or maybe he’s thrown-in with the snappish Marc Faber whose [...]

The Secret Global Empire(s): Russ Baker & John Perkins

Dandelion Salad

by Laura Flaunders
GRITtv
Nov. 12, 2009
U.S. history has seen many presidents elected on a wave of progressive promises, only to see them compromise again and again once in office, caving to the very interests, military and corporate, that they railed against so effectively.  Barack Obama is only the latest to get elected on a promise [...]

America’s Pending Collapse By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
November 20, 2009

photo by Dandelion Salad
The truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that capitalism has outlived its usefulness, is thoroughly the fault [...]

Pentagon’s contradiction and imperialist decline by Sara Flounders

Dandelion Salad
WWP: 50 years of struggle for revolution and socialism
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Pentagon’s contradiction and imperialist decline
by Sara Flounders
http://www.workers.org
Nov 19, 2009
The following excerpted talk is by WWP Secretariat member, Sara Flounders, at the Nov. 14-15 Workers World Party National Conference in New York.
Twenty million people a year in the U.S. get sick from contaminated water. Forty percent of [...]

Noam Chomsky: Libertarian Socialism + The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism (1976)

Dandelion Salad
buddhagem
November 17, 2009

more about “Libertarian Socialism Part 1“, posted with vodpod

Pt 2

In Memory of Gary Sudborough + No Country for Old Men

Dandelion Salad

Nov. 19, 2009
I’m deeply saddened to bring this news to you.
Gary Sudborough, one of my favorite writers for Dandelion Salad has died suddenly from a heart attack on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.  His sister, Marcy contacted me today by email, and wrote this comment on his latest post:
Oh Gary…you were so brilliant and had [...]

An Analysis of Warrantless Wiretapping – Part II by Richard Scott

by Richard Scott
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
19 November 2009
Parental Controls on Everyone
In Part one of my piece, I attempted to explain the nature and scope of the US Warrantless Wiretap Program and the growing Surveillance Regime being built in this country. In Part 2, I will compare and contrast the growth and structure [...]