“What are you going to do about it?” by Jason Miller

by Jason Miller
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Dandelion Salad
Thomas Paine’s Corner
June 12, 2010

Two weeks ago, as I was figuratively staggering through the worst existential pummeling I’ve endured since my self-imposed sentence to Dante’s Inferno in the early 90’s, I had a profound (recovering) alcoholic’s moment of clarity.

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Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Imperialist Policies

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joefriendly June 12, 2010

Following a NY Peace Action Benefit viewing of Karen Malpede’s new play, Prophesy, Noam Chomsky criticizes Obama’s rightwing policies, war making, medical care, coziness with commercial interests . He warns of the coming war in Kandahar and Israel’s possible attack on Iran that could go nuclear. In the Q & A, moderated by Karen, Chomsky comments on BP’s Gulf Oil disaster, the Free Gaza Flotilla incident, urges Guantanamo being returned to Cuba and tortured detainees either being tried or released. June 9, 2010 Camera: Joe Friendly

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Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?

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by Andy Worthington
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Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
12 June, 2010

The recently released Final Report of President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force (PDF) was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it took eleven months to complete, and involved “more than 60 career professionals, including intelligence analysts, law enforcement agents, and attorneys, drawn from the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other agencies within the intelligence community.”

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Ellen Brown: The Financial Hijacking of America

by Dr. Ellen Brown
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Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
June 12, 2010

Bonnie Faulkner
Guns and Butter
http://www.kpfa.org
June 9, 2010

Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; the need for state owned banks.

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There’s Nothing Christian about Zionism by Eileen Fleming

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12 June, 2010

A quick introduction quoting Dr. Ilan Pappé:

There’s Nothing Christian about Zionism

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