“Don’t F*** With Our Activists” – Mobilizing Against FBI Raids by Roxanne Amico (updated)

Updated: Sept. 27, 2010 added videos and links to previous posts somewhat related.

by Roxanne Amico
Featured Writer
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Spirit Morph Studio
Sept. 26, 2010

Yesterday, while the Federal Bureau of INTIMIDATION–you know, the New Boss, same as the Old Boss–was raiding the homes of peace and social justice activists across the country in a fishing expedition meant to distract us all from the real criminals and terrorists, the email below arrived in my inbox–About how the U.S. Army, in uniform, in a government van, drove up and down Allen Street here in Buffalo, NY, removing posters announcing a protest scheduled for next Friday.

Below are links to the story about the FBI raids, and the email that came to my inbox (at the bottom of the body of this message, after the links.)

‘Warfare’ – 1984 by George Orwell (repost)

In case you missed this when it was first posted back in 2007.

Video about ‘Warfare’, based on a reading from the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Reading of 1984 is from the Unabridged audio book “1984”… Read More

Commonwealth Games Fiasco: What do you expect from capitalist super exploitation? by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
finian.cunningham@yahoo.com
25 September, 2010

As the Commonwealth Games open in Delhi, India, the controversy over sub-standard accommodation and facilities for the participating nations continues to rage.

Several weeks ago, visiting country delegates voiced concern over the shambolic state of the newly built facilities. Now, as the games open, the event promises to turn into an embarrassing fiasco for the Indian government, with glaring publicity on what is still being widely reported as filthy and shoddy conditions. Media reports say that cleaners and labourers are “working through the night” in order to salvage conditions at the so-called Games Village, where more than 7,000 athletes from over 70 countries are scheduled to stay for the 12-day sporting tournament.

Did He Really Say That? by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
September 25, 2010

“We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”

Barack Obama in Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward

Again, the arrogance of U.S. Robber Class politicians is astonishing!

I know I just have a modest internet talk show and a blog that only reaches thousands, but I am going to put in a request to interview Barack Obama, because I doubt, with the resignation of the only tough-ish person in the White House Press Corps, Helen Thomas, that any other so-called journalist has the guts to go against the Emperor and ask just one simple question—“Mr. President, who or what do you mean by ‘us’?” Is it another case of: “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” (Bill Clinton).

Reflections on 9/11 and What is Patriotism by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on Buzzflash.com
September 25, 2010

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The 9/11 remembrances and memorials seem to have come and gone very quickly this year, except to the extent that the GOP/Tea-Party led campaign for Islamophobia had gained strength and will continue on, to what ends and endings no one at this point can say with certainty.  (For more of my thoughts on that issue, see my last BuzzFlash Commentary.)

But the 9/11 controversy has not gone away, that is, the controversy over what were the real causes of the disaster.  It will not, at least until there is another investigation of the tragedy bringing in many more witnesses and testifiers from many different points of view and perspectives with an opportunity to raise so many questions that have yet to be answered and to offer for consideration scientific evidence about cause and effect that was not considered in the first investigation.

Even your best friends won’t tell you by Jerry Mazza

By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.jerrymazza.com
September 24, 2010

As I remember, that has been a headline for everything from bad breath to dandruff sufferers to those suffering from body odors. The headline was ideal shame-making for manufacturers of mouthwashes, dandruff shampoos, deodorants and antiperspirants. And now it applies to our purported worst enemy, the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. That is, he’s telling us what none of our “best friends” in our government are saying, “that the American government may have been behind the 9/11 attack.”

After being greeted by a round of applause as he entered the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, September 23, Ahmedinejad was applauded again after his remarks. During his General Assembly address he called for a “U.N. fact finding group to investigate 9/11.” I hope their findings (if a group should ever come about) won’t be treated like the fact-finding results of Hans Blix, head of the UN’s United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. His claims of no WMD in Hussein’s Iraq were ignored. As were the claims of orthodox Jewish Justice Richard Goldstone’s report on Zionist overkill in Gaza.

The Credit Meltdown and the Shadow Banking System: What Basel III Missed by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
September 24, 2010

While local banks are held in check by the new banking czars in Basel, Wall Street’s “shadow banking system” has hardly been curbed by regulators at all; and it is here that the 2008 credit crisis was actually precipitated. The banking system’s credit machine is systemically flawed and needs a radical overhaul.

On September 13, the Bank for International Settlements issued heightened capital requirements that will make lending even more difficult for local banks, which do most of the consumer and small business lending today. The new rules are ostensibly designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 credit collapse, but they fail to address its real cause, which involves a “shadow” banking system that has largely escaped regulation.

Why Say Yes to the Party of No? by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Sept. 23, 2010

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How does the Big Business-indentured Republican Party get away with expectations of a runaway election victory this November? If such a victory should occur in Congress and for many governorships and state legislatures, it will be due to a ten percent or so shift in voters who voted Democratic in 2008 and are expected to vote Republican this year or stay home in despair or disgust. The rest of the voters who do vote will still stay with their hereditary Republican or Democratic candidates.

So what is accounting for a possible ten percent shift? Let’s briefly review some of the Congressional Republicans’ voiced positions:

UN: Israel Used ‘Incredible Violence’ in Raid + No One Was Safe: UN Inquiry Into Israel’s Flotilla Raid

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Newsy: U.N. probe finds Israel guilty of “unnecessary and incredible violence”

Four months after Israeli forces raided a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, a U.N. probe finds Israel guilty of “unnecessary and incredible violence.”

Rainbow Pie – So different yet so familiar By William Bowles (updated)

Updated: Sept. 24, 2010 added a video with an interview with Joe Bageant.

By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 11 September, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir By Joe Bageant. Portobello Books, London, 2010 ‘Cotton never saw much cash, and never got rich by any means. Not on the ten-cent and fifteen-cent purchases that farmers made there for over one hundred years. Yet he could pay Jackson Luttrell for the tomato hauling—in credit at … Read More

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Larry King Live (09.23.10)

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Larry King Interview CNN

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Speech at the United Nations + Transcript Sept. 23, 2010

Note: Here is the Sept. 26, 2012 video, summary and transcript: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Speech at the United Nations + Transcript Sept. 26, 2012

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TruthOnTube on Dec 7, 2015

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s full speech at UN General Assembly

U.S. Consolidates New Military Outposts In Eastern Europe by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
Sept. 23, 2010

Two weeks after the United States started its third rotation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Baltic air patrol on September 1, with the deployment of F-15C Eagle fighter jets operating out of the Siauliai International Airport in Lithuania, neighboring Estonia finished a three-year project to upgrade its Amari Air Base in order to accommodate more NATO warplanes.

The opening ceremony for the enlarged base, which with expanded runways is able to host “16 NATO fighters, 20 transport planes [and] up to 2,000 people per day” [1], was held on September 15.

The Estonian base, like its Lithuanian counterpart, is a Soviet-era one modernized and extended for use by NATO, which financed 35 percent of the expansion.

Ahmadinejad: ‘Shift the balance of power’ + 9/11 was an Inside Job!

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RTAmerica | September 21, 2010

Speaking on the UN summit sidelines, Iran’s leader says the biggest trouble facing the world is domination by the United States. In an exclusive interview with RT’s Marina Portnaya, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
explains how he wants to change the existing world order.

Michael Parenti: Crumbling US Empire

with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.michaelparenti.org
Sept. 23, 2010

RTAmerica | September 23, 2010

In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equal growth in US military power. The United States is a super power but has forgotten about its own people (the republic). Michael Parenti says that US leaders have been consumed by the status of American super power and have forgotten basic infrastructure needs of their people.