by Hakim
Writer, Dandelion Salad
http://ourjourneytosmile.com
April 2, 2014
ourjourneytosmile·Apr 1, 2014
Dear friends,
On the 28th of March, 2014, at about 4 p.m., the Afghan Peace Volunteers heard a loud explosion nearby. For the rest of the evening and night, they anxiously waited for the sound of rocket fire and firing to stop. It was reported that a 10 year old girl, and the four assailants, were killed. Continue reading
by Ed Ciaccio
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 31, 2014
Image by chesapeakeclimate via Flickr
(to the music of “Goodnight Saigon” by Billy Joel)
We entered crying
From mothers’ safe wombs.
We struggled daily
To keep from our tombs.
And we learned fast
That life was tough,
So we were determined
To make it enough.
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with Chris Hedges
Jarett Myskiw on Sep 22, 2013
The question and answer session from Chris Hedges’ speaking engagement at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on 21 September, 2013. Continue reading
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Writer, Dandelion Salad
andrewgavinmarshall.com
August 27, 2013
Andrew Gavin Marshall on Aug 26, 2013 Continue reading
by Soraya Boyd
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
March 30, 2013
Heaving with revulsion, the defiled and mutilated land suppurates
Bloodied tears borne out of grief inconceivable only inaudible sighs each pang separates
And the mournful stones cry out in great desperation
by Ed Ciaccio
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 22, 2013
Image by David Paul Ohmer via Flickr
(to the tune of “On Broadway” by Barry Mann, Mike Stoller, Jerry Leiber & Cynthia Weil)
They say there’s profit to be made on Wall Street (on Wall Street).
That’s what the banksters & fraudsters, they all say (on Wall Street).
But when their schemes and bubbles burst,
It’s always us who get hurt the worst,
Continue reading
Image by Emre Karapınar @ IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation/TURKEY via Flickr
by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
December 30, 2012
Unlawfully pincered between harsh collective punishment and base military aggression
The tear bedabbled faces of innocent children in constant lacrimation
Afforded no respite cling desperately to their progenitor for safety and protection
Image by IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation/TURKEY via Flickr
by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
December 29, 2012
With breathtaking magnitude, resolute in forefending responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity
A darkly glib inhabits the psychic scape of a ruinously polished occupier seeking pseudo security
Image by IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation/TURKEY via Flickr
by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
December 14, 2012
A wailing poignancy tearing at the very heart of a much troubled core
Drenched in a blood soaked landscape incessantly scarred by murderous lore
Powerfully bearing witness to insatiably violent gratuitous gore
No-where to escape from the invasive putrid sore
No-thing but wrought brutality and slaughter oozing from every pore
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by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global, Dec. 10, 2012
December 11, 2012
Aided and abetted by its coalition of the willing
Plundering Israel tears a thirst-deprived people and its parched land asunder
Under the auspices of its American heel
Raiding Israel steals away every last of drop of water
Aided and abetted by its coalition of the willing
Continue reading
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by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
June 20, 2012
Above our tiny village the stars in Allah’s sky shone bright.
The special wedding food and music had all filled me with delight.
We’d gathered there to celebrate the start of the new life
Of my gentle older brother and his lovely young wife.
by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
April 18, 2012
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“War is a racket,” warned the retired Marine,
Veteran of wars, sick of what he’d seen.
Planned and ordered by the callous and mean,
It’s brutal and savage, and truly obscene.
“A gangster for capitalism” is what he became,
In his own words, years later, after his fame,
The book “War Is A Racket”, above his name,
Told how he was used in that deadly greed game.
by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
April 5, 2012
The children killed by war
Should haunt us forever,
Their mangled limbs,
Charred bodies,
Innocent minds,
Unreached dreams
Cursing us for our blind zeal
For revenge,
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BillMoyers.com
February 24, 2012
Bill Moyers has a moving conversation with acclaimed poet and Poetry Magazine editor Christian Wiman about how finding true love and being diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer reignited his religious passion as well as his creative expression.
“When we think of our memories, they’re moments of intensity. Whether they were sorrowful or happy, moments of great loneliness or moments of great communion — we live for these moments in our life.
Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
February 17, 2012
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We’re saturated with deceptive political advertising — aided and abetted now with spending by citizens, corporations and super PACs that seems to know no bounds. Add to that relatively cheap “buys” on the media landscape including television, the web, print media and social networks, and there’s no place for the electorate to escape.
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