After 100 Years, It’s Time to Make the Federal Reserve a Public Utility by Ellen Brown

Federal Reserve Building in Washington D.C. - Illustration

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by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog
December 22, 2013

December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?

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The Man From the North: Impossible Courage by Rivera Sun

The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 22, 2013

Be realistic. Demand the impossible.

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The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today”, when a rising police state controlled by the corporate-political elite have plunged the nation into the grip of a hidden dictatorship. In spite of severe surveillance and repression, the Man From the North’s banned articles circulate through the American populace, reporting on resistance and fomenting nonviolent revolution. This article is one of a series written by The Man From the North, which are not included in the novel, but can be read here.

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US Navy Sailors Sue TEPCO Over Cluster-Fukushima Snafu by William Boardman

by William Boardman
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published on readersupportednews.org, December 18, 2013
December 22, 2013

Fuel Assembly Removal Process (02813602)

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“Why has this not made national headlines??? The Aircraft Carrier Ronald Reagan is nuclear powered. Radiation detection equipment did not pick up on this?? Why have these sailors and marines medical records been removed from permanent tracking. Criminal implications galore. This should be all over mainstream media. Someone please forward all these ene reports to the media…. Tepco is the lowest of snakes. Hari Kari for the lot of em!!” – Comment on enenews, August 15, 2013, by “timemachine2020”

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Michael Parenti: The US Empire Sees Only Two Kinds of Countries: Satellites or Enemies

Smash US Empire

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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
michaelparenti.org
December 22, 2013

John Robles
Voice of Russia
December 21, 2013

In destroying country after country, the US Empire is doing well. One devastated country after the other has made it clear that any country which pursues independent sovereign policies and attempts to better its own position and the state of its people becomes a target for the US Empire. Continue reading