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by Lo
Editor, Dandelion Salad
May 11, 2021
A Time of Plague in an Era of Corruption, Distrust and Irrationality, by Kenn Orphan
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
September 27, 2021
Over the past couple years of this pandemic, it has been breathtaking to see the depth of the rabbit hole so many have fallen into. And that many of them purport to be on the left is both fascinating and terrifying. For far too many people, masks requirements, vaccine mandates or any kind of public health measure is looked at solely through the lens of conspiracy. To them, anything that might come from government or “Big Pharma” is to be distrusted or discounted. A virus that continues to bring healthcare systems to their knees and send millions to their premature deaths is still being referred to as a hoax or the flu. And despite decades of documentation on the effectiveness of eradicating or controlling deadly diseases through vaccines, there is a persistent paranoia when it comes to medical advances and science. It is worth examining what led us to this point in history.
Teach Youngsters About Corporatism’s Harms, by Ralph Nader
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Sept. 24, 2021
September 26, 2021
If you think elementary, middle, and high school students know too little history, geography, and government, try asking them about the corporations that command so many hours of their day, their attention, what they consume, and their personal horizons.
Chris Hedges and David Harvey: The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Part 2
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sep 25, 2021
On the show, the second in a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey, the social, political, and economic consequences of Neo-liberalism and globalization, exploring alienation, the rise of authoritarianism, the significance of China in the world economy, the geopolitics of capitalism, carbon dioxide emissions and climate change and our collective response.
Chris Hedges and David Harvey: The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Part 1
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sep 23, 2021
On the show, the first in a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the reconfiguration of global capitalism, the contradictions of neoliberalism, the financialization of power, the commodification of spectacle, Rate Versus Mass of Surplus Value, and other issues fundamental to economic literacy.
Working Conditions are Getting Worse in the US, by Pete Dolack
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by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Sept. 22, 2021
September 23, 2021
It’s no secret that United Statesians are more ignorant of the world beyond their national borders than the peoples of other countries. That ignorance serves a purpose. How can you keep screaming “We’re Number One” and believing you have it better than the rest of the world if you are in possession of accurate information?
4,391+ Actions for a Better World: Campaign Nonviolence Action Week is Bigger than Ever, by Rivera Sun
Mike Prysner: George Bush, You Need to Apologize + Statement by Mike Prysner
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Watch the video below
Dandelion Salad
with Mike Prysner
Empire Files on Sep 20, 2021
Iraq War veteran and Empire Files producer Mike Prysner disrupted a speech by George W. Bush in Beverly Hills on Sept. 19, 2021.
Sorry Cover-Up for US Mass Murder, by Finian Cunningham
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Sputnik, Sept. 18, 2021
September 20, 2021
So a top US commander has come clean on primetime TV about the killing of 10 civilians in Afghanistan with a drone missile. Seven of the victims were children packed into a car.
John Pilger: The US Military is a Killing Machine
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with John Pilger
goingundergroundRT on Sep 8, 2021
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger on the takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Chris Hedges: The Second American Revolution
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sep 18, 2021
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the Second American Revolution with author David Talbot.
Chris Hedges: Undercurrents of American Fascism
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sep 16, 2021
On January 6, 2021, a mob incited by outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. capital in an attempt to halt the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Within the mob, as the scholar Gabriel Rockhill points out, were many current members of the military and police. Some of the leaders of the organizations involved, such as Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio and Joseph Biggs, had direct ties to U.S. intelligence agencies, having served as FBI informants. Only one fifth of Capitol Police were on duty that day, and they were unprepared and under-equipped, even though the U.S. national security state had advance knowledge of the plot. Capitol Police were seen opening barricades and fraternizing with the mob.
Coups, Censorship and Propaganda: The U.S. New Cold War Playbook, by Rainer Shea
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Sept. 14, 2021
September 16, 2021
“Uncountable are the editorials in every American and European newspaper and magazine of note adding to this vocabulary of gigantism and apocalypse, each use of which is plainly designed not to edify but to inflame the reader’s indignant passion as a member of the “West,” and what we need to do. Churchillian rhetoric is used inappropriately by self-appointed combatants in the West’s, and especially America’s, war against its haters, despoilers, destroyers, with scant attention to complex histories that defy such reductiveness and have seeped from one territory into another, in the process overriding the boundaries that are supposed to separate us all into divided armed camps.” — Edward Said, 2001
Hurricane Eve, by Rivera Sun
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by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 15, 2021
Winds of Change is the third novel in the Dandelion Trilogy by Rivera Sun. It’s a wild tale of resistance and resilience, people-powered democracy movements and the race for climate justice.
A 9/11 Reflection: Remember “Their” Crimes, Forget “Ours” by Paul Street
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by Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Official Website of Paul Street
September 14, 2021
So much we are supposed to forget or not know and/or care about, so little we are supposed to remember.
“We must never forget” 9/11, when “America was attacked” (when, as cannot be said without sounding “controversial,” the United States Middle East policy blew back on the nation’s financial and political capitals).
Abby Martin: Never Forget: Lessons of the Post-9/11 Warpath
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Sep 11, 2021
As the US Empire tries to leave its 9/11 warpath on Afghanistan & Iraq in the past, Abby Martin reviews the core lessons.
