The Daily Show: Ron Paul

Dandelion Salad The Daily Show Ron Paul believes that spreading his economic and political message is the only way to keep broadening his base of enthusiastic supporters.

Anti-communism 101: Hijacking history by William Blum

by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 2 November, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report Jon Stewart and the left The left in America is desperate; desperate for someone who can inspire them, if not lead them to a better world; or at least make them laugh. TV star Jon Stewart is sometimes funny, especially when he [...]

Confessions of a Reluctant Republican Shill, Fifth Columnist by Misdirection By Robert S. Becker

by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net November 1, 2010 My name is Robert, and I am some sort of Republican Shill. It’s uncanny and unsettling: nigh over 20 years, for every gorgeous phrase I lovingly fashion to advance the left, the right grows stronger and nastier, its candidates better funded and more unhinged. [...]

The Phantom Left by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 1, 2010 The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify its complacency and lethargy. It diverts attention from corporate power. It perpetuates the myth of [...]

Time to Break Up the Too-big-to-Fail Banks? by Ellen Brown + The Daily Show: Foreclosure Crisis

by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com October 15, 2010 Looming losses from the mortgage scandal dubbed “foreclosuregate” may qualify as the sort of systemic risk that, under the new financial reform bill, warrants the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks. The Kanjorski amendment allows federal regulators to pre-emptively break up large financial institutions that—for [...]