Andy Worthington on The Peter B Collins Show

The Peter B Collins Show
Info on Podcast #69

with Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
20 November 2009

British journalist Andy Worthington returns to update us on the delayed closure of Guantanamo and the Obama decision to try KSM and others in Federal Court in New York. Worthington is the author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and is co-producer and presenter of the new documentary Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo. We talk about the complacency of most Americans about the torture and detention schemes, about Binyam Mohammed now released and Shakar Amer still held in isolation at Gitmo, and about the utter lawlessness of the Bush policies. We also talk frankly about Obama’s challenges from fellow Democrats that have hindered the plan to close Gitmo.

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Updated: Nov. 23, 2009

Andy Worthington Discusses The Closure Of Guantánamo Or Not With Peter B. Collins

Joe Lauria: Corruption within the Afghan government

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
November 20, 2009

Joe Lauria relates the latest developments in the United Nations, including the controversies involving the elections in Afghanistan, the removal of Peter Galbraith, and the liability of having an American as the second man in office. He discusses the recent UN report on the Taliban’s funding, including heroin related funds and associated outcomes, the chronic and widespread corruption within the Afghan government, and President Obama’s dilemma when it comes to Af-Pak. The interview also includes his perspective on factors contributing to the fading away of the traditional roles of the press in the US, the media blackout on ‘deep politics,’ shortcomings of amateur news blogs, and more!

The Great Stimulus Debate of ’09 – “Crybabies need not apply” By Mike Whitney

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By Mike Whitney
ICH
November 20, 2009

Barack Obama has decided to push the economy back into recession, and no one can figure out why. Perhaps the impressionable Obama has come under the spell of the deficit hawks and crystal gazers who see Armageddon around every corner. Or maybe he’s thrown-in with the snappish Marc Faber whose dire predictions of hyperinflation are about as cheery as Hieronymus Bosch’s vision of Hell. Whatever the reason, the President has done a hasty volte-face and decided that trimming the deficits in the middle of a severe economic downturn is the way to go. Here’s what Obama said just days ago on his Asia tour:

“I think it is important to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.”

The Secret Global Empire(s): Russ Baker & John Perkins

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by Laura Flaunders
GRITtv
Nov. 12, 2009

U.S. history has seen many presidents elected on a wave of progressive promises, only to see them compromise again and again once in office, caving to the very interests, military and corporate, that they railed against so effectively.  Barack Obama is only the latest to get elected on a promise to end a war and take care of working people, only to preside over an administration stacked with Wall Street types and wind up continuing a war he wanted to wind down.

America’s Pending Collapse By Timothy V. Gatto

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By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
November 20, 2009

The truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that capitalism has outlived its usefulness, is thoroughly the fault of the capitalists themselves.

Pentagon’s contradiction and imperialist decline by Sara Flounders

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WWP: 50 years of struggle for revolution and socialism

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Pentagon’s contradiction and imperialist decline

by Sara Flounders
http://www.workers.org
Nov 19, 2009

The following excerpted talk is by WWP Secretariat member, Sara Flounders, at the Nov. 14-15 Workers World Party National Conference in New York.

Noam Chomsky: Libertarian Socialism + The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism (1976)

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buddhagem
November 17, 2009

Libertarian Socialism Part 1

In Memory of Gary Sudborough + No Country for Old Men

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Nov. 19, 2009

I’m deeply saddened to bring this news to you.

Gary Sudborough, one of my favorite writers for Dandelion Salad has died suddenly from a heart attack on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.  His sister, Marcy contacted me today by email, and wrote this comment on his latest post: