by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
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January 5, 2014
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When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem (a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar‑poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung me and wedged in my memory.
“We live in a slum,” I mournfully reported to my father.
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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.
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lauraflanders·Mar 30, 2013
Co-Authors, Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt prepare a Dagga Salad and talk about the making of Gaza Kitchen. Go to GRITtv.org to see the full story.
“Under blockade from Israel and blocked off by Egypt, the sliver of land that is the Strip is most often seen in the West (when it’s seen at all), as a war zone or a humanitarian disaster, but the place is more than its pain. As Schmitt and El-Haddad show us, Gaza is also its food, it’s culture; not only what’s been lost, but also what is deliciously surviving.”
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by Michael Parenti
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Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
February 28, 2013
In 1951, only five years after World War II ended, I managed to make my way to Paris where I landed a job as a courier diplomatique (messenger boy) for the United Nations Sixth General Assembly. Despite the years of war and deprivation, Paris still was a special place with its history, its cafes, galleries, bridges, ornate edifices, and narrow winding cobblestone streets, some seemingly as old as the city itself.
by Joseph Natoli
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
February 21, 2013
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Gulliver’s Travels in Food & Farming: Chronicle Two
“[O]ur culture’s food madness tips into food psychosis, at least among those with keen appetites and the means to indulge them.” — Frank Bruni, “Dinner and Derangement,” NYTimes October 18, 2011
by Jill Dalton
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
recoveringarmybrat, Jan. 12, 2013
January 19, 2013
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YET ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING
Our country’s rocked by yet another mass shooting this time in Newtown, Connecticut. This time a 20-year-old kid, Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in their home then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he killed six adults including the principal and 20 children before killing himself.
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with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 19, 2013
canawareness·Jan 16, 2013
McMaster university, Hamilton, Ontario January 15 2012.
Chris Hedges speaks to a full room of people at the Gandhi lecture on non violence. He clearly states that American gun culture is rooted in white supremacy and a fear of black people. Then states that the American founding fathers where enthusiastic about committing genocide.
by William T. Hathaway
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
December 2, 2012
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Amazing but true: The first European settlers in what is now the USA weren’t English Puritans or French fur trappers but Sephardic Jews. Before the Mayflower sailed to America, Jews had fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled in what is now Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Although they were eventually absorbed into the mainstream culture, they built a real Jewish life here.
Who were these first pioneers? What happened that forced them to flee? What did they encounter in this far land? These questions fascinate me, and as I read what little we know about them and imagine their lives, a story emerges:
First published on Dandelion Salad in 2008. Originally published in 2005.
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By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Nov. 20, 2012 Continue reading
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with Ralph Nader
Oct 25, 2012 by jeannekyle
[Presented by Speakers Committee and the Political Student Assembly, a part of USC Program Board.
Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate & Former Green Party Candidate for President, will be at USC to discuss “The Corporatization of America” and what it means for your dreams, as well as his new book.] Continue reading
by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
July 30, 2012
Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric forms of expression—in short, the world of ethics, creativity and ideas—are shouted down by the drunken chants of fans in huge stadiums, the pathetic demands of rich alumni for national championships, and the elitism, racism and rigid definition of gender roles of Greek organizations. These hypermasculine systems perpetuate a culture of conformity and intolerance. They have inverted the traditional values of scholarship to turn four years of college into a mindless quest for collective euphoria and athletic dominance.
by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
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July 9, 2012 Continue reading
with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
June 24, 2012
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Jun 22, 2012 by wworldp
Chris Hedges explains why a print based culture is important. Corporate interests promote mindless celebrity trivia instead of real news, vaporize our heritage, and use the media to turn minds into mush. This shifts attention from their take over of government as well as destruction of the environment and society. Remarks were made at Free Library of Philadelphia event for his book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”.
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with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
June 17, 2012
Interviewed by William Stranger
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by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
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June 18, 2012
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I’m Here to be as Annoying as Humanly Possible to Those in Power
Our media is a melting-pot of misinformation, bought and owned by billionaires and oligarchs, whether it is public, private, or foundation-funded. Information is integral, propaganda is power, and media is money. Control of the media leads directly to control of the minds of those who consume it, and like all patterns of consumption, it is sustained by profit, but its purpose is much deeper, more pervasive and permanent: social control.
The Greanville Post Cyrano’s Journal Today
