The Oppressed 99.9% Have Had Enough by Graham Peebles

by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rajasthan, India
February 16, 2014

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You can see it glistening in colours red, white and blue, smell its choking fumes through the fogs of ambition and greed and mac-taste its convenient food; fast and furious, no time to waste, to pause, to question and wonder. Market fundamentalism pervades all areas of contemporary civilization, has saturated every corner of the world, and created what Pope Francis recently described as the “Globalisation of Indifference”, a world in which “we have become used to the suffering of others.

Mark Weisbrot: What’s Going On In Venezuela? + Pro-government Rallies

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CCTV America on Feb 14, 2014

Rival factions have been clashing in Venezuela, with at least 3 people dead. For analysis on the protests, anchor Mike Walter sits down with Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy & Research.

The Man From the North: Police State Blues by Rivera Sun

The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 16, 2014

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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.