by Donal Peter Buckley
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://dandahan4.com, March 1, 2012
May 4, 2012
There is no Fourth Estate in Ireland 2012.
There never was a Fourth Estate in Ireland.
There are many commentaries and column semantics, even hacks in fear and in hock to the establishment have spectacular media exposure. The Irish media and the establishment are of one voice.
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
East Africa
20 November 2011
Typical foggy weather on Mull of Kintyre that was prevailing when Chinook ZD576 went down. Note how official British inquiries misrepresented poor visibility.
Evidence points to liquidation of British counterinsurgency team to trick Irish republicans into a defeating political process
For 17 years the British authorities have lied about the fatal RAF helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in which 25 senior counterinsurgency personnel were killed. Now Global Research reveals new evidence showing that the loss of life was an intentional act of sabotage.
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Belfast, Ireland
July 14, 2011
Image via Wikipedia
After 17 years, two Royal Air Force pilots were finally cleared this week of any wrongdoing in the fatal Chinook helicopter crash that wiped out Britain’s top counterinsurgency personnel in Northern Ireland in the summer of 1994.
By Michael Hudson
Global Research
May 30, 2011
Is Iceland’s rejection of financial bullying a model for Greece and Ireland?
Last month Iceland voted against submitting to British and Dutch demands that it compensate their national bank insurance agencies for bailing out their own domestic Icesave depositors. This was the second vote against settlement (by a ratio of 3:2), and Icelandic support for membership in the Eurozone has fallen to just 30 percent. The feeling is that European politics are being run for the benefit of bankers, not the social democracy that Iceland imagined was the guiding philosophy – as indeed it was when the European Economic Community (Common Market) was formed in 1957.
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
April 21, 2011
Manama, Bahrain
Prestigious college slammed for silence over detained Bahraini medics
The families of medics unlawfully detained in Bahrain have accused the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) of putting financial investment interests above human rights after the college refused to make a public statement concerning the fate of Bahraini members held incommunicado by the regime.
with Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
December 30, 2010
RussiaToday | December 30, 2010
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, find an unsurprising answer to the most important question of our time, “why is America broke?” They also discuss ‘nasty surprises’ and Tony of Arabia. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author and blogger, Ellen Brown, about her latest piece on the [Dandelion Salad] offering a solution for Ireland.
by Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
December 23, 2010
“Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together, and choke their art.”
–Shakespeare, “Macbeth”
The Greek bailout was supposed to be an isolated case, a test of the EU’s ability to quarantine an infected member, preventing it from spreading “debt contagion.”
But that was before Ireland failed. Ireland was the poster child for how to conduct a successful austerity program. Unlike the Greeks, who were considered profligate spendthrifts, the Irish did everything their creditors asked. The people sacrificed to pay for the excesses of their banks, but still the effort failed. Ireland was the second domino to fall to an IMF/EU bailout. On December 17, Moody’s Investors Service rewarded it for voting to accept the “rescue” package with a five-notch credit downgrade, from AA2 to BAA1, with warnings that further downgrades could follow.
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stimulator | November 20, 2010
Image by Geoff Dexter via Flickr
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/
This Week:
1. Irate Irish
2. London Calling
3. Rubbish Riots
4. Federal Explosives
5. Sinixt Blockade Wins!
6. Threat of shotguns halt mining
7. Kanye West is a racist
8. George Bush Don’t Like Black People
9. COP16 Climate Clusterfuck in Cancun
by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
September 27, 2010
Updated: June 26, 2011; added Transcript
Transcript: You Wanna Know What’s What in the Middle East?
Image by Marjorie Lipan via Flickr
September 26, 2010 (SOAPBOX #74)
Cindy holds a very in-depth interview with British journalist, Robert Fisk, who has been living in the Middle East and reporting from there for decades. He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent and has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported from the United States’s attack on Afghanistan and the same country’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. Continue reading
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stimulator on Aug 9, 2010
This Week:
1. Butt Pluggers
2. Orwellian Decoder Ring
3. Enbridge’s giant metal cock
4. M.E.N.D. is back
5. Rioting Irish in Belfast
6. Russian forest defense
7. Lolita Lebrón R.I.P.
8. Meet me in the basement
9. G20 arrestee report
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http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/car_bomb
Forget about nuclear missiles – the decisive weapon of the twentieth century is the car bomb. After Iraq we now know you can defeat a Superpower, start a civil war or just blow up your own government with a trunk load of homemade explosives and a battered old car. Former CIA agent Robert Baer investigates the hidden history of the car bomb in the 20th century, from the little known but devastating car bomb attack on 1920s Wall Street to the present use of car bombs in Iraq.
Robert Baer was in Lebanon in 1983 when the US embassy and marine barracks were hit by this most inconspicuous yet deadly weapon. Robert Baer’s life was depicted by George Clooney in the Oscar-winning movie Syriana.
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Finian.cunningham@gmail.com
9 June, 2010
THE long-awaited British public inquiry into Bloody Sunday is expected to the published later this month. [1]
This is the inquiry into the events of 30 January, 1972, in which members of the British Parachute Regiment opened fire on Irish civilians protesting for civil rights in the city of Derry. On that day, 13 civilians were shot dead and a fourteenth would later die from his wounds. Scores were also injured from gunshots in the bloodbath that shocked the world.
The British inquiry into Bloody Sunday should serve as a salutary lesson as to why such probes controlled by the state are inadequate to establish truth and justice. The lesson is particularly apposite in the light of events of Bloody Monday on 31 May, 2010, when Israeli commandos opened fire on humanitarian aid workers onboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, killing at least nine civilians and wounding several dozen.
by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Washington, Jun 2, 2010
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today beginning to circulate to colleagues the following letter concerning the commando raid by Israel upon a Turkish ship in international waters:
June 2, 2010
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
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