Chris Hedges: Is America Yearning for Fascism?

with Chris Hedges
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Dandelion Salad
Mary 21, 2010

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May 20, 2010 — The similarities between the former Bush Administration and those of a fascist government were overwhelming. And when a recent billboard popped up with a photo of W and the caption Miss Me Yet? it has to make you wonder whether or not Americans actually prefer a fascist form of government. That’s exactly the question that best-selling author Chris Hedges has posed, and he recently spoke to Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio about his reasoning behind this very serious observation.

Are the People Really Seizing Power? By Timothy V. Gatto

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By Timothy V. Gatto
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liberalpro.blogspot.com
May 20, 2010

I’ve waited until the dust settled from last Tuesday, and for the first time in decades, I have a smidgen of hope for the American people. I want to get some things straight, right off the bat. While the political current that is rooting out corporate incumbents is promising, this nation, and the people that pull the levers at the polls, have a long way to go in order to get out from under the pseudo Democrats and finally finish off the right wing wackos that now make up the nucleus of the Republican party.

U.S. And NATO Accelerate Military Build-Up In Black Sea Region by Rick Rozoff

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by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
May 20, 2010

In the post-Cold War era and especially after 2001 the Pentagon has been steadily shifting emphasis, and moving troops and equipment, from bases in Germany and Italy to Eastern Europe in its drive to the east and the south.

That process was preceded and augmented by the absorption of former Eastern Bloc nations into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization beginning in 1999. In one of the first nations in that category, Poland, the initial contingent of what will be over 100 U.S. troops arrived in the town of Morag this week, as near as 35 miles from Russian territory, as part of a Status of Forces Agreement between Washington and the host country ratified this February.

Oil leak may be 19 times larger than BP and US government say + Latest Footage of Gas Burn Off

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May 20, 2010 — One month after the fatal explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, McClatchy journalists provide us with an update on the situation.

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Produced by Jesse Freeston.

Gulf Oil Disaster: A Transatlantic Pollution Catastrophe Looms By Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
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Dandelion Salad
20 May, 2010

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster threatening to wipe out tourism and fishing industries and countless numbers of marine wildlife habitats along the entire US southeast coast could be just the prelude to a much greater transatlantic pollution catastrophe.

The furthest eastern state of Florida – 600 miles from the Deepwater Horizon spill site off Louisiana – is next at risk to devastating pollution as a result of giant undersea oil plumes being swept up by fast-moving Caribbean currents known as the Gulf Loop. But US government officials are now warning neigbouring countries to also prepare for contamination. Indeed, the US state department has taken the highly unusual step of contacting the Cuban government to warn it of the pollution risk.

A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robert S. Becker

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by Robert S. Becker
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Dandelion Salad
rbecker@cal.net
May 20, 2010

Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obama’s focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal.  Between victory and governance, Obama “reform” switched from promises to make government serve people to insure government serves business.  The result is mounting guilt by association as Obama got himself entrenched only months into power, a speed record for a reform guy, now the establishment president defending every party incumbent.  Does this White House think that’s the reason it won?

Capping the devil’s cauldron By Jerry Mazza

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By Jerry Mazza
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Dandelion Salad
crossposted at Online Journal
www.jerrymazza.com
May 20, 2010

If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and destruction of fish and wildlife in untold numbers . . . I would take this all, mind you, BP, as a sign from the deity.

And if the deity could speak like Mel Brook’s 2,000 Year Old Man, I would imagine it would say, “You, mankind, you have been cajoling me for more oil and gas for hundreds of years. The more I give you the more you want. Enough is never enough. So here’s enough, a volcano of oil and gas, a mountain of it, a pox on your house. Choke on it. Now, leave me alone. And if you’re smart, stop it, and don’t fight amongst yourselves like a pack of hungry monkeys. Such schmucks I made in my image, I can’t believe it.” Nor can I, voice, and I’m not even a believer, in a deity or the devil. But jeez, this looks like both of them in a cosmic World Series.

Stephen Hawking is Wrong by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

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by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
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crossposted on Buzzflash.com
May 19, 2010

The world-famous cosmologist Prof. Stephen Hawking recently declared:

that he believes we would be well-advised to keep the volume down on our intergalactic chatter and do all we can to prevent any “nomadic” aliens moseying our way to take a look-see. Should they find us here tucked away in the inner reaches of the solar system, chances are they’d zap us all and pillage any resources they could get their hands on. Our own history, says Hawking, proves that first encounters very rarely begin: “Do take a seat. I’ll pop the kettle on. Milk? Sugar?”  Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach, says the theoretical physicist in ‘Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking’.