They Never Announce When You Prevent a War by David Swanson

Seattle Rally

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
warisacrime.org
January 24, 2014

There exists, I suppose, some slight chance of this one making it into the State of the Union address, no doubt in a distorted, bellicose, and xenophobic disguise. Typically, there’s no chance of any announcement at all.

We’re stopping another war.

There are a million qualifications that need to be put on that statement. None of them render it false. A bill looked likely to move through Congress that would have imposed new sanctions on Iran, shredded the negotiated agreement with Iran, and committed the United States to join in any Israeli war on Iran. This would be a step toward war and has become understood as such by large numbers of people. Continue reading

Michael Parenti: The Republic is Now in Decay

State of the Union

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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
michaelparenti.org
January 25, 2014

John Robles
Voice of Russia
January 25, 2013

What the military industrial complex in the US learned from Yugoslavia was that they could fight an entire war and not lose a single soldier. This emboldened those who use war as a means to advance the interests of the empire, but the Empire feeds off the Republic for its financing and as a source for cannon fodder and the Republic is now in decay and falling apart. Continue reading

Train Derailments Another of Fracking’s Problems by Walter Brasch

POV: Across Spuyten Duyvil Creek from the scene of the terrible train derailment this morning. (Under the Henry Hudson Bridge)

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by Walter Brasch
Writer, Dandelion Salad
walterbrasch.com
January 24, 2014

The derailment of a 101-car CSX freight train on a bridge in a densely-populated part of Philadelphia this past week should be yet another warning to politicians who have become cheerleaders for oil and gas fracking.

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