US: The Real Global Terror Alert by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
August 6, 2013

Sixty-eight years ago this week, the United States wiped out more than 200,000 people when it dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Tens of thousands more victims were to die over the ensuing years due to slow, painful deaths from cancers and birth defects.

Yet the US – the only state to have ever used atomic weapons – has never apologized or made any atonement for this singularly horrific crime.

Still Reaping a Harvest of Shame by Ralph Nader + Moyers and Company: Fighting for Farmworkers

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
August 1, 2013

The great reporter Edward R. Murrow titled his 1960 CBS documentary Harvest of Shame on the merciless exploitation of the migrant farmworkers by the large growers and their local government allies. Over fifty years later, it is still the harvest of shame for nearly two million migrant farmworkers who follow the seasons and the crops to harvest our fruits and vegetables.

Socialism: Change Has to Begin at the Roots by William T. Hathaway

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by William T. Hathaway
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Germany
August 3, 2013

Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us.

Where does it come from?

The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s just the way people are.

Rick Rozoff: NATO Will Make Sure That Russia Is An Enemy

by Rick Rozoff
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
August 5, 2013

John Robles
Voice of Russia
August 5, 2013
Recorded on July 31, 2013

Upcoming NATO military exercises envisage an attack on Poland and an Article 5 NATO intervention against a foreign power in power. To the dismay of Russia, these exercises continue the outdated Cold War thinking of the West, which refuses to let go of such stereotypes and continues to eschew peace and understanding between the nations. NATO and the West have an agenda, and that agenda is complete and total military domination of the world.

Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism

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TheRealNews on Aug 6, 2013

On the second episode of Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Vijay Prashad talks about growing up in India and coming to the realization that liberalism could never eliminate poverty.