The Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney, by Ralph Nader

Fighting on Blood

Image by Truthout.org via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
March 21, 2013

Ten years ago George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq – replete with embedded television and newspaper reporters chronicling the invasion through the Bush lens. That illegal war of aggression was, of course, based on recognized lies, propaganda and cover-ups that duped or co-opted leading news institutions such as the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Continue reading

Noam Chomsky–2013 Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Violence and Dignity–Reflections on the Middle East

Dandelion Salad

Updated: Added the Q&A

with Noam Chomsky

05

Image by M.Hassona via Flickr

TheEthanwashere·Mar 23, 2013 Continue reading

On Wall Street by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 22, 2013

New York - "GREED STREET or Wall Street"

Image by David Paul Ohmer via Flickr

(to the tune of “On Broadway” by Barry Mann, Mike Stoller, Jerry Leiber & Cynthia Weil)

They say there’s profit to be made on Wall Street (on Wall Street).
That’s what the banksters & fraudsters, they all say (on Wall Street).
But when their schemes and bubbles burst,
It’s always us who get hurt the worst,
Continue reading

A Safe and a Shotgun or Public Sector Banks? The Battle of Cyprus by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
March 21, 2013

20130316185246

Image by @Popicinio via Flickr

If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun.

Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on deposits in Cyprus banks

The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making.  US depositors could be next . . . .

Continue reading