Barack Obama DOES NOT Speak for Me! by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
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Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Nov. 13, 2009
I was facilitating a meeting in Washington, DC this past weekend, and an Iraq “War” veteran claimed that the GI resistance movement ended the Vietnam War. I started to say that I was sure that the GI movement was a part of ending the [...]

Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald: The ‘real’ history of Afghanistan

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
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Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
13 November 2009
Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald discuss Afghanistan and how US foreign policy and military decisions are based on miscalculated and misunderstood Afghanistan politics, history, and culture. They talk about the ‘real’ history of Afghanistan; how the media misled the public [...]

Pentagon’s Global Reach: Around The World In 12 Days by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com
13 November, 2009
On January 20 a changing of the guard occurred in the United States White House with two-term president George W. Bush being replaced by former freshman senator Barack Obama.
Bush had continued the policies of his predecessor Bill Clinton in relation to the Balkans, Iraq and Colombia – with [...]

On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”

by Andy Worthington
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Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
13 November 2009
I was delighted to be invited to discuss Guantánamo on Democracy Now! this morning, just an hour after the story first broke that the Obama administration is preparing to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners to the US mainland to face trials in federal court for their [...]

Greg Palast on Antiwar Radio: Latin America, Plan Columbia and Big Oil

with Greg Palast
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Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
November 13, 2009
Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses the domestic political motives behind the war posturing of Venezuela and Columbia, Obama’s embrace and expansion of Plan Columbia, the demonization of Hugo Chavez and Ecuador’s escape from vassalage to the U.S. and big oil.

via Greg Palast « Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton
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Ellen Brown: Financial Meltdown: Why it Happened and How It Can Be Reversed (1.17.09)

with Dr. Ellen Brown
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Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
Nov 13, 2009
Ellen Brown – Democracy for America, Tucson AZ – Jan. 17, 2009
1:10:04
Ellen’s explanation of the roots of the current economic crisis and a way out

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A Wise, Delightful, and Wrongfully D.O.A. Book – Elizabeth Pisani’s The Wisdom of Whores by Daniel N. White

by Daniel N. White
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Dandelion Salad
Nov. 12, 2009
E.P. was a US expat kid who lived all over the world growing up and therefore naturally enough I guess wound up getting a superlatively useless liberal arts degree in Classical Chinese* and becoming a reporter for Reuters across Asia. She then jumped ship to [...]

Creating The Global Nonprofit Corporation, The Ultimate Cooperative By Roland Michel Tremblay

By Roland Michel Tremblay
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The Marginal
11 November, 2009
At the end of my last article about the future of humankind as either being a Utopia or an Idiocracy, I stated that if we do not in parallel of those who are in power build our own institutions for humankind, we will never even [...]