Thousands March Against the G8 Meeting in Northern Ireland + G8 Enniskillen Protest, 17-6-2013

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PressTVGlobalNews on Jun 16, 2013

As the leaders of the world’s eight most powerful economies – or G8 – prepare to meet in northern Ireland next week, anti-capitalist and anti-war campaigners made their voices heard.

Even though the rain teemed down intermittently, spirits weren’t dampened.

The awful weather hasn’t stopped thousands of people marching through the center of Belfast today. There are several different groups here from anti-capitalists to anti-war campaigners.

Margaret Thatcher’s Criminal Legacy by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
April 9, 2013

Hours after the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the history books are being re-written and the beatification of the Iron Lady is well underway.

Current British premier David Cameron praised Lady Thatcher for having “saved Britain” and for making the has-been colonial power “great again”.

Tributes poured forth from French and German leaders, Francoise Hollande and Angela Merkel, while US President Barack Obama said America had lost a “special friend”.

Michael Hudson: Who Should Get Priority: The 1% or The 99%?

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by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
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August 10, 2012

Aug 28, 2012 by USILive2012

Our web conference with Michael Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond, and one of the few people to predict the financial crisis.

Earthrise: Wind Power + Plastic Fuel + Tin Mining Wasteland Restored

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Jul 14, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish

In Kenya the national grid reaches just 18 per cent of its population, which means an estimated 30m people are forced to use environmentally damaging and expensive alternatives like kerosene, diesel and dry cell batteries. A local company, Access Energy, has developed a micro wind turbine made using scrap, which can charge a phone and power a lightbulb — enough for most people’s needs. Russell Beard joins Access Energy in Kisumu, Western Kenya, and learns to build a turbine.

Fracking in Ireland and Being Dependent on Halliburton’s Mud by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
written for No Fracking Ireland
July 3, 2012

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No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July
Connolly Books, Temple Bar – 1pm
The Ireland Institute – 7.30pm
Full info here

On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men instantly, then destroying 600 miles of coastline. On 9 September 2010, a natural gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, California, burning eight to death, one of several recent pipeline explosions in the USA. In 1992, in Chicago, a gas pipe leaked and 18 houses exploded, incinerating three people.

The Fourth Estate in Ireland 2012 is a Myth by Donal Peter Buckley

by Donal Peter Buckley
Guest Writer
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http://dandahan4.com
, March 1, 2012
May 4, 2012

There is no Fourth Estate in Ireland 2012.

There never was a Fourth Estate in Ireland.

There are many commentaries and column semantics, even  hacks in fear and in hock to the establishment have spectacular media exposure. The Irish media and the establishment are of one voice.

Britain’s Cover-Up of Inside Job in Fatal RAF Chinook Crash by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
East Africa
20 November 2011

Typical foggy weather on Mull of Kintyre that was prevailing when Chinook ZD576 went down. Note how official British inquiries misrepresented poor visibility.

Evidence points to liquidation of British counterinsurgency team to trick Irish republicans into a defeating political process

For 17 years the British authorities have lied about the fatal RAF helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in which 25 senior counterinsurgency personnel were killed. Now Global Research reveals new evidence showing that the loss of life was an intentional act of sabotage.

Chinook Disaster: Did Britain Sacrifice Counterinsurgency Top Brass To Defeat Irish Republicans? by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Belfast, Ireland
July 14, 2011

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After 17 years, two Royal Air Force pilots were finally cleared this week of any wrongdoing in the fatal Chinook helicopter crash that wiped out Britain’s top counterinsurgency personnel in Northern Ireland in the summer of 1994.

The Breakup of the Euro? by Michael Hudson

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By Michael Hudson
Global Research
May 30, 2011

Is Iceland’s rejection of financial bullying a model for Greece and Ireland?

Last month Iceland voted against submitting to British and Dutch demands that it compensate their national bank insurance agencies for bailing out their own domestic Icesave depositors. This was the second vote against settlement (by a ratio of 3:2), and Icelandic support for membership in the Eurozone has fallen to just 30 percent. The feeling is that European politics are being run for the benefit of bankers, not the social democracy that Iceland imagined was the guiding philosophy – as indeed it was when the European Economic Community (Common Market) was formed in 1957.

Detained Bahraini Medics: Brutal Crackdown against Pro-democracy Movement by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
April 21, 2011
Manama, Bahrain

Prestigious college slammed for silence over detained Bahraini medics

The families of medics unlawfully detained in Bahrain have accused the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) of putting financial investment interests above human rights after the college refused to make a public statement concerning the fate of Bahraini members held incommunicado by the regime.

Keiser Report: Ellen Brown on “Deficit Easing”

with Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
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webofdebt.com
December 30, 2010

RussiaToday | December 30, 2010

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, find an unsurprising answer to the most important question of our time, “why is America broke?” They also discuss ‘nasty surprises’ and Tony of Arabia. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author and blogger, Ellen Brown, about her latest piece on the [Dandelion Salad] offering a solution for Ireland.

Austerity Fails in Euroland: Time for Some “Deficit Easing?” by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
December 23, 2010

“Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together, and choke their art.”
–Shakespeare, “Macbeth”

The Greek bailout was supposed to be an isolated case, a test of the EU’s ability to quarantine an infected member, preventing it from spreading “debt contagion.”

But that was before Ireland failed. Ireland was the poster child for how to conduct a successful austerity program. Unlike the Greeks, who were considered profligate spendthrifts, the Irish did everything their creditors asked. The people sacrificed to pay for the excesses of their banks, but still the effort failed. Ireland was the second domino to fall to an IMF/EU bailout. On December 17, Moody’s Investors Service rewarded it for voting to accept the “rescue” package with a five-notch credit downgrade, from AA2 to BAA1, with warnings that further downgrades could follow.

The Stimulator: It’s taco time!

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stimulator | November 20, 2010

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This Week:

1. Irate Irish
2. London Calling
3. Rubbish Riots
4. Federal Explosives
5. Sinixt Blockade Wins!

Robert Fisk: Independent Journalism, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
September 27, 2010

Updated: June 26, 2011; added Transcript

Transcript: You Wanna Know What’s What in the Middle East?

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September 26, 2010 (SOAPBOX #74)

Cindy holds a very in-depth interview with British journalist, Robert Fisk, who has been living in the Middle East and reporting from there for decades.  He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent and has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years.  He has published a number of books and has reported from the United States’s attack on Afghanistan and the same country’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.  Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.  

The Stimulator: Sugar Water

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stimulator on Aug 9, 2010

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This Week:

1. Butt Pluggers
2. Orwellian Decoder Ring
3. Enbridge’s giant metal cock
4. M.E.N.D. is back
5. Rioting Irish in Belfast
6. Russian forest defense
7. Lolita Lebrón R.I.P.
8. Meet me in the basement
9. G20 arrestee report