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Three Cheers for the Tea Party! by Sean Fenley

by Sean Fenley
Dandelion Salad
The Anything and Everything
April 9, 2010

I’m not sad to say that I’m cheering for the success of the Tea Party.  Surely if they are to ’succeed’ they will take votes away from Republicans, but more than that they will open up a stale process to a new sort of rebirth and change. They will possibly become nothing more than a Moveon.org of the center-right, but should they begin to break free of their Republican tethers, I will be rooting for them all the way.

Disinformation and the Capitalist Economic System: What Is To Be Done by Walter Crompton and Finian Cunningham

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by Walter Crompton and Finian Cunningham
www.globalresearch.ca, March 23, 2010
- 2010-03-22

An especially frustrating and destructive facet of being humanitarian in these times is the feeling of hopelessness in damming the swelling stream of lies and ominous news.  The proliferation of alternative news media, such as Global Research, is testimony that people around the world can see beyond the veil of disinformation and misinformation, through to the hideous truth of domination by organized anti-social forces. But what good are sharp vision and a good heart if our hands and feet are not brought into the picture?

Most readers here realize that the capitalist economic system long ago ran out of progressive steam, and has now entered a terminally pathological imperialist phase, destroying the planet and its people at an ever-increasing rate.  With overwhelming control of wealth, major media and arms, today’s cabal capitalism appears to be securely dominant.  Daily revelations of arrogant crime by illegitimate rulers have desensitized and demoralized us, and virtually the entire Left has become overwhelmed with critique, and underwhelmed with solution.  What shall we do?

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word … like “bribery” by William Blum

by William Blum
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.killinghope.org
8 March, 2010

The Anti-Empire Report

Informed consent

About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: “The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being”; the pregnant woman has “an existing relationship with that unborn human being,” a relationship protected by the U.S. Constitution and the laws of South Dakota; and a “known medical risk” of abortion is an “increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide.” A federal judge has now eliminated the second and third required assertions, calling them “untruthful and misleading.” ¹

I personally would question even the first assertion about a fetus or an embryo being a human being, but that’s not the point I wish to make here. I’d like to suggest that before a young American man or woman can enlist in the armed forces s/he must be told the following by the staff of the military recruitment office:

Chris Hedges: Are the two main US parties just proto-fascist misfits?

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
March 5, 2010

RTAmerica
March 04, 2010

Is it time to walk out on the Democrats? It is time to back alternative third-party candidates and grass-roots movements, no matter how marginal such support may be. The more the party fails the more likely we will see more green parties, tea parties and other parties springing up.

on vodpod: Are the two main US parties just proto-fascist misfits?

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We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology by Chris Hedges

Tea-Parties and Progressives, Maybe We Should Listen to Each Other By Timothy V. Gatto

Ralph Nader: Nothing can stop the organized power of the people! (1996)

Tea Party on Dandelion Salad

from the archives:

To Tea Or Not To Tea by Joel S. Hirschhorn

Noam Chomsky: The Tea Party is a Sign of the Failure of the Left

Noam Chomsky: why far right must be challenged

Tea-Parties and Progressives, Maybe We Should Listen to Each Other By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
February 28, 2010

I’m watching the Tea-Partiers, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones with interest, you see me and people like me are exactly the ones they profess to hate, Liberal Progressives. It makes me chuckle when I hear their complaints.  Allow me to bring up some of their major complaints so we are all on the same page here.

One of their chief complaints according to The New York Times article written by veteran investigative journalist David Barstow’s “Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right” is an all-powerful Federal Government that tramples on the people’s rights by spying on citizen’s, reading their e-mails and accessing their computers with no oversight. Well, gee folks, seems like this Liberal Progressive has been writing about this very same set of circumstances since the Patriot Acts were imposed by the Federal Government in their phony war on terrorism. It seems that the war is on us; the very citizen’s that the government is supposed to protect.

Part VI: How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won — The Economic Elite Vs. The People by David DeGraw

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by David DeGraw
Amped Status
February 27, 2010

Throughout this report, I have presented statistical and fact-based evidence to demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched against 99% of Americans. Despite the efforts of the mainstream media and most current politicians, awareness of this reality is spreading throughout the United States. A recent Rasmussen poll found that only 21% of Americans think that the government has the consent of the governed. An Opinion Research Corp. survey revealed that 86% believe “the system of government is broken.”

An overwhelming majority of the population has come to the realization that our government doesn’t effectively represent us anymore. It is just a matter of time before people start taking it upon themselves to begin organizing on a mass scale. Our survival instinct will soon overwhelm our conditioned passivity and erupt into a powerful countervailing force. However, the longer we hesitate and delay action, the harder it will be to obtain economic and political justice.

We cannot continue to stand by and watch our nation be raped and pillaged like this. We can no longer remain idle and passive while our families’ futures are destroyed as we are sentenced to a slow death.

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The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America – Part I by David DeGraw

Part II: The Rise of the Economic Elite — Economic Elite Vs. The People by David DeGraw

Part III: Exposing Our Enemy – Meet the Economic Elite by David DeGraw

Part IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat — Economic Elite Vs. The People by David DeGraw

Part V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy — The Economic Elite Vs. The People by David DeGraw

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Massachusetts Calling: Harnessing Independents’ Anger And Disillusionment To Form A 2nd (I.E., Non-Corporate) Party

By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 21, 2010

I just called the Jack Rice radio show on Air America.  Rice’s show is new to the D.C. area, so I got through the phone vetting process fairly easily.  I waited a minute or two and then Rice took my call on air.

I was pretty clear about what I wanted to say.  Rice had actually set things up the day before when he said that their likely defeat in the Massachusetts race for the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy’s death would—hopefully!—cause Congressional Democrats to “grow a pair,” withdraw the health care reform bill as is, and then re-submit the much stronger bill that the majority of Americans were hoping for when they voted for Obama a year ago.

Gerald Celente: Buy Local + Wave of Terror, Internet revolt & War on migration

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January 11, 2010

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Celente on 2010: Wave of Terror, Internet revolt & War on migration

Bread and Circuses, an Old Idea in a New Era By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
December 19, 2009

The way words are used, the way people, places and things are described, will make a difference regardless of the subject matter. Today I was reading USA Today (Friday Dec 18, 2009), specifically a letter titled “Independents Unite!” about the possible creation of a third party. In the letter the writer (Alan Mohr) wrote that we should drive the extremists from both political parties from office. I agree whole-heartedly with him, but in the next paragraph he writes;

“Another solution would be to have a new national third party, one that would appeal to independents and the moderates of the two major parties. Such a bloc could control Congress and be a positive influence and do what is best for America.”

Let’s Talk about VUI: Voting Under the Influence by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
7 December 2009

Revisiting ‘The Lesser of Two Evils’ Mentality

The real face of our two-party but one-establishment system of politics seems to have made a rare appearance again with Obama’s speech last Tuesday. That is, to those among the wannabe gullible majority, since a small fraction have known this true face for a while. The good news is that finally we are seeing a significant number of apologists who are coming to the realization of being taken for a ride during this last election. The not so good news has to do with the depth of this new realization, thus the extreme vulnerability of being misdirected and exploited again, over and over, as has been done for decades.

Last May I put forth a discussion topic on the issue of casting votes based on the ‘lesser of two evils’ decision-making process. Here are the questions I posed back then, which I am posing again now that we have more people waking up to smell their new Whitehouse Roses:

Ralph Nader on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

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by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Nov. 27, 2009

Listen:

This week’s Soapbox has a super-special guest, so we are starting to air it at a super-special time.

Friday is what we consumers here in America call “Black Friday” (I don’t know why, maybe it’s because people get trampled fighting each other for cheap consumer crap), but we at the Soapbox want to brighten up that day a little, and we are airing the show on Friday at noon!

Please tune in this Friday beginning at noon to hear Cindy’s interview with Ralph!

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You Get What you Vote For! by Cindy Sheehan

Advice on Afghanistan by Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader: End the War on Drugs + Book Fair with Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges

Still Waiting for Health Care by Ralph Nader

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Afghanistan on Dandelion Salad

from the archives:

Buying Brand Obama by Chris Hedges

Wasting Your Vote? by Guadamour

by Guadamour
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Guadamour’s blog post
Nov. 9, 2009

I was in the super market the other day and started conversing with the man repairing the ancient dairy case. It turned out that he was in town from Tucson and was actually a native of the city. I grew up there and was born in a town not far outside of Tucson. The man and I were approximately the same age (both being old fucks), and we reminisced about the old days, and deer and quail hunting where there are now track homes.

He is retired Air Force, and had been injured from a fall from a ladder, and hadn’t had any income except for his pension for a while. That started us discussing the health care issue. He said he was a Republican and didn’t vote for Obama, and didn’t think the government should be getting involved in health care. I pointed out that he had been treated at a Veterans Administration hospital for his injuries, and that was government run. He conceded that he received good care and it was indeed government run.

A Unique Opportunity by Guadamour

by Guadamour
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Guadamour’s blog post
August 26, 2009

It is becoming more and more obvious that the alleged healthcare “reform” that the America public is going to get out of Congress and the Executive branch is no real reform at all, but welfare for the insurance, pharmaceutical and entrenched medical industries. Congress and the President have sold out and it is becoming more and more obvious to everyone, even diehard conservatives and dyed-in-the-wool Democrats.

President Obama seems incapable of leading, and is trying to appease everyone and in the process is making no one happy, least of all those that elected him for “change you can believe in.”

Obama inherited a mess, a disaster with two wars, the worst financial crisis the world has ever known, the torture tactics of the previous administration, the erosion of constitutional rights, et cetera, et cetera.

“Hope”less in the “Two” Party System by Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan for Congress

by Cindy Sheehan
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
April 22, 2009

Since November of 2006 when the Democrats regained majorities in both Houses of Congress, I began my gradual awakening to the fact that the “Two”-Party Robber Class political system is a fraud.

Nancy Pelosi ran for her Congressional seat in 2006 (which would for certain turn transform her into the House Speakership if the Dems became the majority) promising “No more blank checks for war.” She broke that promise, but kept her treasonous “impeachment is off the table” promise. What Nancy Pelosi really meant was the opposite: “I will give George Bush EVERY blank check for war that he asks of me! Why wouldn’t I? I am protecting him from accountability—billions of dollars for war is nothing!”

You have to understand, that Nancy Pelosi’s district is PRO-Impeachment and ANTI-war. If she refused to fund the wars and impeach George Bush, she would be following the will of her constituency. However, the “Two”-Party Robber Class political system protects and preserves itself no matter what party the criminal belongs to.