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“An Idiot Surrounded by Clowns”: Why Trump (Still) Sits in the White House by Paul Street + Max Blumenthal on Fire and Fury, Clinton Probe, and Russiagate

by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street Previously published at Counterpunch January 6, 2018 Most of the media’s attention on journalist Michael Wolff’s “explosive” new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has focused on the disclosure that Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon used the words “treasonous” […]

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How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page October 4, 2017 A major chapter in American history – rarely taught in our schools – is how ever larger corporations have moved to game, neutralize and undermine the people’s continual efforts to protect our touted democratic society. It is a fascinating story of the relentless exercise […]

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Swamping the Supremes Department: No Cloture for Judge Gorsuch by Rob Hager

by Rob Hager Writer, Dandelion Salad March 18, 2017 Maine’s Angus King is a swing Independent Senator who caucuses with Democrats. As a former lawyer, like many of his colleagues, he cannot plead ignorance about the historic importance of his vote on the fateful Senate filibuster to deny Neil Gorsuch confirmation as Trump’s first Supreme […]

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“Progressive”: Does its Meaning Depend on Whatever the Clintons Think is “Progress”? by Rob Hager

by Rob Hager Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad Older version published February 10, 2016 September 20, 2016 The battle between Sanders and Clinton over the term “progressive” presented an opportunity to discuss some history. Now that Sanders is supporting the very person who misappropriated the term it is even more important to define what does progressive […]

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The Solution Is Not To Save The Democratic Party, But To Replace It by Michael Hudson

by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com, July 31, 2016 August 10, 2016 Leading up to Monday’s Democratic Party convention, Hillary chose Blue Dog Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her VP. This was followed by the Wikileaks release of Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mail files showing it acting as the Clinton Campaign Committee even […]

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The Argument For Impeaching James Comey by Rob Hager

by Rob Hager Writer, Dandelion Salad July 18, 2016 Comey’s Unraveling Political Fix Those “damn emails.” One could have thought that epithet was a clever strategy to ingratiate a stranger at the party to the anointed one’s retinue, pending the results of the FBI investigation.

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Supreme Court Legalizes Influence Peddling: McDonnell v. United States by Rob Hager

by Rob Hager Writer, Dandelion Salad July 3, 2016 The Supreme Court has mostly completed its decimation of any anti-corruption law that might have caused any more than the slightest inconvenience for the plutocracy’s political investments. Therefore the Court has now picked up its judicial supremacy ax to perform a similar demolition of laws that […]

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The SCOTUS Quandary by Rob Hager + Merrick Garland: Where Does Supreme Court Pick Stand on Guantánamo, Death Penalty, Abortion?

by Rob Hager Writer, Dandelion Salad March 17, 2016 Obama Nominates a Conservative to Court: Sanders Still Missing Strategic Opportunity Obama Writes Nomination Insurance for Plutocrats Obama has decided that, to fill Scalia’s vacant seat for radicals on the Supreme Court the country needs another former partner of a Wall Street law firm, turned prosecutor, […]

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The Conundrums of Justice Scalia by Ralph Nader + A Cover for Corporatism in Scalia’s “Originalism”

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page February 20, 2016 The passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia evoked widespread commentary about how outspoken he was both on the Court and at law schools and other forums where he often lectured and sometimes tangled with audiences. Knowing of Justice Scalia’s unusual expressiveness for […]

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Scalia Leaves the Plutocracy One Vote Short by Rob Hager

by Rob Hager Writer, Dandelion Salad February 14, 2016 The salutary rule of private life that one should not speak poorly of the dead does not properly apply to public persons who we know only through their public deeds. When they choose to lead a political life, which is the only capacity in which we […]

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The Battle Over the Term “Progressive” by Rob Hager

Please see revised version: “Progressive”: Does its Meaning Depend on Whatever the Clintons Think is “Progress”? by Rob Hager by Rob Hager Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad February 10, 2016 The battle between Sanders and Clinton over the term “progressive” presents an opportunity to discuss some history relevant to the campaign. The meaning of the term gains […]

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Rackets Science: The Influence Peddlers Protection Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029) by Rob Hager

by Rob Hager Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad December 23, 2015 Rackets Science: The Influence Peddlers Protection Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029) Plu-toc-ra-cy Government by the wealthy. A country or society governed in this way. Christmastime for Plutocrats Political scientists need a new sub-specialty to describe the end-of-year extravaganzas that influence peddlers and special interests have […]

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Bernie Sanders’ “Political Revolution” VS A Real Socialist Revolution by Danny Katch

Dandelion Salad by Danny Katch socialistworker.org November 4, 2015 Bernie Sanders is calling for revolution on a regular basis during his campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. But what does he mean by a “political revolution” and what would it take to actually achieve one? Danny Katch, author of Socialism…Seriously: A Brief Guide to […]

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The Incomprehensible Idea: What Opposing All Wars Means by David Swanson

by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad World Beyond War, October 5, 2015 October 7, 2015 The world’s two big nuclear militaries are in the same war now in Syria and, if not on opposite sides exactly, certainly not on the same side. A primary, if not the primary, goal of the United States in Syria […]

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Taxation Without Representation—Déjà Vu by William John Cox + Greg Palast: One Person, One Vote

by William John Cox Writer, Dandelion Salad williamjohncox.com June 7, 2015 The Supreme Court’s acceptance of a case about the allocation of voting districts will have consequences far beyond the millions of U.S. taxpayers its ruling may deprive of representation. A decision that only counts voters, rather than all persons, will undermine the very foundation […]