The truth about “civilized transitions” By William Bowles

by William Bowles
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
williambowles.info
17 May, 2011

“What about giving Gaddafi an exit strategy?”— Channel 4 News presenter to somebody or other, 16 May, 2011

This is what it comes down to: A TV ‘news’ presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he’s just another expendable piece of the Empire’s junk. ‘Yeah, why you don’t just get rid of him, make him go away’. It’s absolutely outrageous that we accept this kind of rubbish and it’s echoed right across the MSM (see below).

Feds To States: “Drop Dead.” by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
May 17, 2011

“Ford to New York: Drop Dead,” said a famous headline in 1975. President Ford had declared flatly that he would veto any bill calling for “a federal bail-out of New York City.” What he proposed instead was legislation that would make it easier for the city to go bankrupt.

Now the Federal Treasury and Federal Reserve seem to be saying this to the states, which are slated to be the first ritual victims in the battle over the budget ceiling. On May 2, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the Treasury would stop issuing special securities that help state and local governments pay for their debt.

When It Comes To Whistleblowers, Obama is the Worst President, by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
May 17, 2011

The New Yorker features a lengthy story on NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake who is scheduled to appear in court next month where he will face a ten-count indictment:

According to a ten-count indictment delivered against him in April, 2010, Drake violated the Espionage Act—the 1917 statute that was used to convict Aldrich Ames, the C.I.A. officer who, in the eighties and nineties, sold U.S. intelligence to the K.G.B., enabling the Kremlin to assassinate informants.

The Buffer Zone: realities of this accursed siege by Stay Human Convoy

Sent to DS from Stephanie Westbrook.

by Stay Human Convoy
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Vik a Gaza
May 17, 2011

This morning as well, we woke up after only a few hours’ sleep: various meetings with our Palestinian comrades here, and which we have been able to attend to everyday, keep us all busy late into the evenings. These are obviously followed by the Convoy’s endless assemblies, which keep us all awake until the early hours.