Loose Cannon And Nuclear Submarines: West Prepares For Arctic Warfare by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com
30 November, 2009

The Arctic Ocean, and in particular its waters under the ice cap, are Russia’s last retaliatory refuge, that spot on the earth where any element of its strategic forces is comparatively safe from a Western first strike and least targetable by interceptor missiles after such an attack.

That Canada has advanced to the front rank of Western nations confronting and challenging a disproportionately stronger Russia in the Arctic strongly suggests that it has been put up to the task. Being a smaller and weaker nation allows it to be cast in the role of a sympathetic victim of “Russian aggression,” much like Estonia two years ago with alleged cyber attacks and Georgia last year after its invasion of South Ossetia. Leading Western elected officials were champing at the bit to activate NATO’s Article 5 in the last two cases (even though Georgia is not yet a full member of the bloc), and Canada could provide a casus belli impossible to resist.
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In Search of Italy by Gaither Stewart

by Gaither Stewart
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
30 November 2009

The dream and the reality are far apart and the chasm is growing bigger with each passing day, affirms our correspondent

Italy—at once anarchic, stubbornly individualistic and communitarian—is no longer everyone’s second motherland. Her warmth, her legendary charms and generosity, even her sense of humor captured in numerous postwar films, have been eroded by a crass capitalist modernity in which a bastardized, heavily colonized pop culture is ushering an era of impersonality. The old Italy is dissolving before our eyes…Does anyone care?

TWO CARS ARE AHEAD OF ME heading toward the row of a dozen or so trash bins serving my residential area. The bins are strangely empty today. The entire trash zone just opposite the fashionable tennis club that usually looks like Naples seems suspiciously clean. Almost inviting. The huge black Suv ahead of me turns the corner, slows, the darkened passenger window descends and out shoots a plastic bag of garbage which smacks down on the pavement and splits open at the feet of a bin labeled BOTTLES AND METAL OBJECTS. The Toyota accelerates and vanishes.

Fort Hood & the KSM trial- Parts I-2: What do these terrorism stories have in common? + The al Qaeda Spy

by Peter Lance
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com
Nov. 30, 2009

Al Qaeda’s Master Spy could be the key to them both

In its firestorm of coverage, the mainstream media has overlooked a potential link between the two biggest domestic terrorism stories of the day: the shootings at Ford Hood and the decision by the Justice Dept. to try accused 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York City.

Five time Emmy-winning former ABC News correspondent and HarperCollins author Peter Lance shines a light on the man who may well be the greatest enigma in the “war on terror.”

Chris Hedges: How will we cope with our decline?

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Nov. 30, 2009

In case you missed this talk by Hedges on this post: Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion – The Cult of Self

July 22, 2009

Amy Goodman speaks in Vancouver: Dissent is what will save us! (must-see) + Amy Goodman tells about her mother dying

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H/t and thanks to subMedia.tv, more on his post: Democracy Later.

VMC Video Exclusive: Amy Goodman speaks in Vancouver | Vancouver Media Co-op

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border, Questioned About Speech…and 2010 Olympics by Amy Goodman

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Democracy Now!
Nov. 30, 2009

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border, Questioned About Speech…and 2010 Olympics

While traveling to Vancouver, Canada to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. The armed interrogators were particularly interested in whether she would be speaking about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.[includes rush transcript]

Peace to Obama’s daughters from Afghan children

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Please send this URL (https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/peace-to-obamas-daughters-from-afghan-children/) or the Youtube URL to President Obama at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

These children’s voices must be heard.  Thank you.

Become a Fan of Youth Peace Volunteers at Facebook

~ DS

ourjourneytosmile
November 29, 2009

Addicted to Nonsense by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
Nov. 30, 2009

Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? (Not that Oprah can ever be replaced, of course.) And will Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, command the hundreds of thousands of dollars they want for an exclusive television interview? Can Levi Johnston, father of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson, get his wish to be a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars”?

George Monbiot: Climate change emails profoundly disappointing Pts 1-3

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TheRealNews
November 29, 2009

http://therealnews.com

George Monbiot: Emails don’t disprove climate change science, but suppressing skeptics unacceptable

Author of the best-selling books Captive State, The Age of Consent and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. George Monbiot is a columnist for the Guardian.

Honduras opposition claims victory in presidential vote

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PressTV
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:26:38 GMT

As Honduras is soaked in a political crisis, opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo claims he won a presidential election that has been condemned by Latin American leaders.

Official results showed on late Sunday that Lobo had over 55 percent support with more than half the ballots counted.

Honduras’ conservative opposition National Party said its candidate Lobo won the election. Lobo’s main rival Elvin Santos of the ruling Liberal Party also conceded defeat.

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via Honduras opposition claims victory in presidential vote

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Bogus Honduran Elections Today by Eva Golinger

US to recognise Honduras poll result + Elections as coup laundering

Military Coup Honduras Zelaya