David Swanson: Are we in favor of killer flying robots over our homes and schools, or are we not?

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with David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad

http://warisacrime.org

May 19, 2013

TheRealNews May 19, 2013

David Swanson: Activists succeeding in turning public opinion against drone strikes; other forms of actions on the rise.

Michael Parenti: Make-Believe Media

with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
May 1, 2013

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SmellsLikePodcast on Apr 30, 2013

Dr. Michael Parenti is an internationally-renowned lecturer and author, most recently of ‘The Face of Imperialism’. In this interview, he discusses the use of entertainment media as propaganda, and the relationship between government agencies and the production of such content. Later on in the talk, Dr. Parenti also provides his take on the media’s coverage of the Obama Administration’s escalating use of drones, and the recent death of Margaret Thatcher.

Chris Hedges: What Is The Most Effective Way To Mobilize Against These Entities? I’m For Anything That Fucks The System Up!

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with Chris Hedges
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 7, 2013

greenpartyus

Watch at greenpartyus

or Chris Hedges at Green Party New Jersey April 2013

[Hedges starts about 8 minutes into the video.]

The Last Possible Refuge by Tristan A. Shaw

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by Tristan A. Shaw
Writer, Dandelion Salad
British Columbia, Canada
March 8, 2013

Wealth and power is the single greatest force that will lead to our species annihilation. It seems there is little historical antidote to the pathology of this class power. When a plutocracy grows into a rapacious system of exploitation, environmental destruction closely follows. Almost every past civilization has fallen in this manner, and we are not exempt.

Michael Hudson: Economic Policy Deception

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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
michael-hudson.com
March 7, 2013

Another in the series of interviews on the Renegade Economists radio show (Australia), a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money printing and poor tax policy produce. Topics include land and housing policy, German gold repatriation, Occupy, Bradley Manning, Iran, Obama and Kruegar.

Class Struggles in Crisis: From Wal-Mart to the State

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Dandelion Salad

LeftStreamed·Mar 2, 2013

Arun Gupta is a co-founder of The Indypendent and The Occupied Wall Street Journal, and has covered the Occupy movement for The Guardian, Salon and many other publications around the world. Recorded in Toronto, 22 February 2013.

Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party Would Be a Far-Right Party in Europe

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with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
February 28, 2013

Edmonton Public Library·Feb 28, 2013

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt: EPL presented Chris Hedges to launch Freedom to Read Week 2013 in Edmonton. Chris spoke about injustice and corporate greed in America…and argued Canada is travelling the same path.

Noam Chomsky: Education and Student Debt

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Dandelion Salad

Replaced video April 22, 2013

with Noam Chomsky

Edward Rad · Mar 21, 2013

Interview conducted on February 7, 2013 in Lexington, Massachusetts, on behalf of Washington Square News.
Recorded by Alice Sholto-Douglas, NYU’15

Chris Hedges: Obama Has Carried On All the Policies of Bush in Terms of Imperial War and Worse on Civil Liberties (#NDAA)

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
February 24, 2013

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KontextTV·Feb 22, 2013

With Chris Hedges, Senior fellow at the Nation Institute, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize in 2002. His latest book is “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” with illustrator Joe Sacco.

In his book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” Chris Hedges describes “sacrifice zones” in the U.S. which have been exposed to unlimited economic exploitation: former industrial centers like Camden, New Jersey which is one of the poorest and most violent cities in the country or the coal mines of West Virginia where nature and communities have been devastated.

Occupy Sandy–Recovery From The Bottom Up by Peter Rugh

Dandelion Salad

by Peter Rugh
SocialistWorker.org
February 5, 2013

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IT WAS Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and the sound of pounding drums mingled with subway steel rattling underground, sending a hot pulse through the high-arched edifice of a humble house of worship in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. As Nina Simone sang in her blue soliloquy to the slain civil rights leader, “The king of love is dead.” But here, in St. Jacobi Lutheran Church, one could feel King’s heart beat on.

Chris Hedges: NDAA: All These Laws Are Being Put Through By Design

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
February 6, 2013

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Atiq Zabinski· Feb 4, 2013

Chris Hedges speaks at the People’s Recovery Summit organized by Occupy Sandy. The Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, Brooklyn, NY, February 2, 2013.

Text of speech at Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage by Chris Hedges (transcript).

Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage by Chris Hedges

See: Video + Q&A

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
February 4, 2013

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Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Brooklyn at the People’s Recovery Summit.

The corporate state has made it clear there will be no more Occupy encampments. The corporate state is seeking through the persistent harassment of activists and the passage of draconian laws such as Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act—and we will be in court next Wednesday to fight the Obama administration’s appeal of the Southern District Court of New York’s ruling declaring Section 1021 unconstitutional—to shut down all legitimate dissent. The corporate state is counting, most importantly, on its system of debt peonage to keep citizens—especially the 30 million people who make up the working poor—from joining our revolt.

Chris Hedges: They Seek To Subjugate Us All

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 27, 2013

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NashvillePress·Jan 25, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges speaks at the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center banquet Jan. 19, 2013. Hedges and others have sued President Obama and the Department of Defense to squash the National Defense Authorization Act, which permits the government to pick up anybody they wish at any time and hold him however long they want—without charging the alleged offender with a crime and without notifying family members of his or her whereabouts. A federal court agreed and ruled the law unconstitutional;

Chris Hedges: We Have Truth On Our Side

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 23, 2013

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McMaster Humanities·Jan 22, 2013

The 14th Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on Non-violence with Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was part of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism.

Chris Hedges: The Window of Opportunity For Peaceful Reform Is Diminishing

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Updated: added Parts 4 & 5 Mar. 6, 2013

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 16, 2013

truthdig·Jan 16, 2013

Chris Hedges gives a talk at the Santa Fe Retreat as organized by Truthdig. [May 2012]