US and British Global Spying – the Poachers Appoint Themselves as Gamekeepers by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation
June 28, 2013

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The poachers – caught in the act – are now appointing themselves as the gamekeepers. Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden has performed an immense service to international public interest and democratic rights by exposing the “industrial scale” illegal spying operations of the American and British governments. The victims of this vast criminality against international laws and norms are the citizens of the world and every other government.

How Much Change On Climate Change? by Chris Williams

Dandelion Salad

Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, examines the rhetoric and reality of Barack Obama’s speech on global warming.
SocialistWorker.org
June 26, 2013

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THE VAST majority of people own no significant amount of stocks or other financial assets. Every single person breathes air. Every single person depends on the growing of food and the nutrition it provides to stay alive. We can’t live underwater. From these axioms, we should be able to divine a sense of what rational societal priorities reflect and emphasize.