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stimulator on Feb 11, 2012
This week:
1. #stim4prez
2. The Egytian revolutions is not over
3. Brazil pigs attack the poor
4. Syrian resistance gets shelled
The Stimulator: #stim4prez
Day: February 12, 2012
How the Arab League Has Become a Tool of Western Imperialism by Finian Cunningham
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
East Africa
9 February 2012
It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of classical colonialism in past centuries, such as the Sykes-Picot carve-up of the Middle Eastern Levant territories, or the betrayal of the Arabs after World War I, or the theft of Mesopotamia’s oil by British capitalists.
Only this time, it is Arabs who are helping the neocolonial powers to deceive and subjugate other Arabs. Enter the Arab League.
Gareth Porter: UN is not doing a responsible job tracking civilian deaths in night raids by Special Ops + Army Officer’s Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story
with Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Feb. 10, 2012
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RussiaToday on Feb 10, 2012
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has accused NATO of killing eight children in an air strike on the country’s territory. The incident adds to the already strained relationship between Afghanistan and its Western allies.
Last week the United Nations released a report stating there had been a rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan from 2,790 in 2010 to 3,021 in 2011. It noted that most deaths were caused by insurgents.
Liberty, Anarchy, Property, Democracy and Power by Andrew Gavin Marshall
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://andrewgavinmarshall.com
February 7, 2012
I have had a number of debates and discussions recently, largely through various social media networks and similar avenues, on some issues that are of major concern to those who seek to confront the challenges of the present and construct a better path for the future. So I thought I would take this opportunity, with ideas fresh in my mind, to simply share some thoughts on these subjects and issues. There is also a relevance between these thoughts and The People’s Book Project, for it is the research for the book which has shaped the conclusions and/or directions of these ideas, and which will be supported with historical facts throughout the book(s).
ESM-treaty Update By Rudo de Ruijter
By Rudo de Ruijter
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Independent researcher
www.courtfool.info
Netherlands
February 8, 2012
A new version of the treaty has been signed on 2 February 2012. This time it was not a EU-treaty in which the EU illegally TAKES more powers (like I exposed in ESM, a coup d’etat in 17 countries), but an international treaty signed by official representatives of the countries (the ambassadors of CoRePrem), in which these countries GIVE more powers to the EU. (This was just away to avoid the conflict with article 48.6 of the Treaty of the EU, that says that the EU may change articles of the treaties as long as they don’t increase their powers.)
I Ain’t Nobody’s Fool, Not Today by Daniel N. White
by Daniel N. White
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
February 4, 2012
Palgrave Macmillan’s publicity department saw what I wrote here on Dandelion Salad and sent me a free copy of their newly published book, The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight To Lead Afghanistan Into the Future in exchange for a review of it. Got to wonder if the folks actually read what I’ve written about us and our adventures abroad before making me this deal. Shoot I am flattered to actually get some recompense of sorts for the writing I’ve done, but I aint pulling any punches on this turkey. I’m calling it as I see it, now as always.
The True Patriot by Ed Ciaccio
by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
February 6, 2012
Image by LianaAn, on Flickr
We’re really all in this together,
Every color, gender and age,
To help each other survive
The fierce storms which will soon rage.
Storms of money and climate and fear
Will threaten to drive us apart,
So we must always remember
Deep in both mind and heart
Chris Hedges: NDAA is a catastrophic assault on our civil liberties, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan
by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
February 12, 2012
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(SOAPBOX #120) – Cindy remarks: Journalist/activist, Chris Hedges, caused quite a stir this past week when he wrote a column for Truthdig saying, in essence, that the “black bloc anarchists” were killing the Occupy movement. The response was immediate and sometimes fierce. Although, I agree with Chris that violence for the sake of violence is counter-productive, it’s been my experience that the violence usually begins with law enforcement, with little, if any, provocation. Continue reading
Barack Obama’s Executive Order: Blocking Property of the Government of Iran and Iranian Financial Institutions
3tch3r on Feb 10, 2012
On February 5, 2012, President Obama invoked the NDAA, which authorizes the use of military force, and issues an executive order declaring the “threat” of Iran a National Emergency. The video shows this issuance of President Obama’S executive order which declares Iran’s threat to cut off oil supplies a national emergency.
An American “Cultural Revolution” by Philip A. Farruggio
by Philip A. Farruggio
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Feb. 7, 2012
You all recall what happened in China during the 60s and 70s? They had this ‘Cultural Revolution‘ whereupon:
“The Revolution was launched in May 1966. Mao alleged that bourgeois elements were entering the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. He insisted that these “revisionists” be removed through violent class struggle. China’s youth responded to Mao’s appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. Continue reading
Syria: CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage, by Felicity Arbuthnot
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
London, England
7 February 2012
“’The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950.)
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livlihood destruction, here is a salutary tale from modern history.
Chris Hedges: Obama Has Broken Almost Every Campaign Promise He Made In 2008
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with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Feb. 7, 2012
Note: replaced video Mar. 26, 2012
RTAmerica on Feb 8, 2012
The United States Supreme court’s passing of Citizens United has changed the political game. Citizens United allows corporations to pump endless quantities of money into political campaigns and prohibiting any American from doing so would be an obstruction of the first amendment. Chris Hedges, columnist with Truth Dig, tells us why thinks voting is a dying practice.
Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come to Lebanon? by Franklin Lamb
by Franklin Lamb
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Beirut, Lebanon
February 10, 2012
During a workshop at the American University of Beirut last year on the subject of the right to work and to purchase a home for Palestinian refugees, a young business major from the Christian village of Bikerki posed a question that surprised some in the audience: “Why if Palestinian don’t like it in Lebanon do they not go home? Why did they even bother coming here in the first place?”
Can Democrats Landslide Republicans? by Ralph Nader
by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
February 7, 2012
I often ask Congressional Democrats these days is: “If you agree that your Republican counterparts in Congress are the most craven, corporatist, fact-denying, falsifying, anti-99 percent, militaristic Republicans in the party’s history, then why are you not landsliding them?” Their responses are largely in the form of knowing smiles and furrowed brows.
Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours + Q&A
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TheRealNews on Feb 11, 2012
Noam Chomsky delivers speech at the University of Maryland Friday, January 27, 2012
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