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• A Year Has Passed by Jennifer

  Posted: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:03:50 +0000

  Jennifer Wants Justice and Peace by Jennifer featured writer Dandelion Salad Jennifer’s blog post Justice and Peace June 28, 2008 “There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands, and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.” ~Father Dominique Pire [...]
  
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• Kucinich: Iran + Iraqi Oil (videos)

  Posted: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:00:43 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Kucinich2008 June 28, 2008 “Kucinich: Iran “, posted with vodpod see Impeachment “ON or Off the table”? You decide.
  
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• The Other Gas Crisis by The Other Katherine Harris

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:25:05 +0000

  The Other Katherine Harris by The Other Katherine Harris Featured writer Dandelion Salad The Other Katherine Harris’s blog June 28, 2008 Given the impact of speculative greed on gasoline and food prices, it’s hard to enjoy a picnic this summer, let alone a vacation trip — but these will seem like the good old days, come fall and winter.  We’ll be [...]
  
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• Wall of Stupidity

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:14:57 +0000

  GUADAMOUR by Guadamour featured writer Dandelion Salad Guadamour’s blog post June 28, 2008 Living only nine blocks from Mexico, one tends to pay close attention to anything that effects the border or that is written about it. As part of the $1.2 billion that was allocated to build a wall to separate The United States of America and Los Estados Unidos [...]
  
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• Impeachment “ON or Off the table”? You decide.

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:55:08 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Kucinich2008 Impeachment: Why is it “Off the Table”? On June 9th, Thirty-five Articles of Impeachment detailing high crimes and misdemeanors were presented to the American people by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. It takes wisdom and courage to stand up and be counted. Courage to stand up for what is right, whether or not it is popular, or politically expedient. Dennis Kucinich [...]
  
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• The McCain Public Campaign Finance Scam

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:13:21 +0000

  Dandelion Salad erkd1 Senator McCain is using the old Rove tactic of attacking your opponents strong point and muddying a issue to cover up potential crimes. At the very minimum, John McCain has already broken the idealism of Public Campaign Finance by opting in to secure a loan and then trying to opt out when he mathematically [...]
  
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• The Great Mexican Oil Takeover

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:30:16 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Thanks to MagicStarER by MagicStarER June 28, 2008 Featuring Bush/Cheney, Blackwater, Halliburton, and Plan Mexico Bet you have not seen this on your MSM news! (Note:  It will be helpful in watching some of these videos if you can understand Spanish.  I’m sorry, I did try to get English versions, but several I could only find in Spanish.  Don’t let [...]
  
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• Zionism’s Dead End By Jonathan Cook

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:20:35 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth ICH June 27, 2008 Separation or ethnic cleansing? Israel’s encaging of Gaza aims to achieve both The following is taken from a talk delivered at the Conference for the Right of Return and the Secular Democratic State, held in Haifa on June 21. In 1895, Theodor Herzl, Zionism’s chief prophet, confided in [...]
  
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• The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was By Scott Ritter

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:39:12 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Scott Ritter ICH 06/27/08 “TruthDig.com“ I am a former U.N. weapons inspector. I started my work with the United Nations in September 1991, and between that date and my resignation in August 1998 I participated in over 30 inspections, 14 as chief inspector. The United Nations Special Commission, or UNSCOM, was the organization mandated by the [...]
  
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• Bill Moyers Journal: Contemplating “Climate Security” + Worker Safety + Big Oil

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:03:58 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Bill Moyers Journal June 27, 2008 Contemplating “Climate Security” June 27, 2008 On Friday, June 6th, 2008 the Liberman-Warner Climate Security Act — the first climate change bill to be debated in Congress — died a procedural death on the Senate floor when the Democratic leadership couldn’t rally the 60 votes necessary to move the bill from debate [...]
  
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• Now Comes The Hard Part By David Michael Green

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:47:26 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By David Michael Green 06/27/08 “ICH”‘ People all over the world – and certainly no less progressive Americans – are trying to take the measure of Barack Obama. The previous and coming few weeks will be a good, though not perfect, moment for doing so. I have long believed that the winner of the Democratic nomination in [...]
  
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• Dahr Jamail: Iraq and U.S. Military Expansion

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:40:17 +0000

  Dandelion Salad talkingsticktv Talk by independent journalist Dahr Jamail author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq” given June 7, 2008 in Seattle. “Dahr Jamail: Iraq and U.S. Military E…“, posted with vodpod see Iraq Israel Lobby Jamail-Dahr GI Resistance It’s March 19 and Blogswarm Day! Posts on Iraq War by Lo (list of [...]
  
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• Don’t Give Your Consent to Slavery - Fight Fascism!

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:40:40 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Peter Chamberlin 06/27/08 “ICH’ Normal folks do not want to believe that the human race is dominated by dark forces. But, there is a small group of people who know that it is true, the human race is considered to be livestock, cattle for the real owners of this world, the elite. Since the day of [...]
  
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• Countdown: Norquist’s Trash Mouth + McStrategy Of the Week

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:07:31 +0000

  Dandelion Salad June 27, 2008 videocafeblog Grover Norquist’s Trash Mouth Keith reports on Grover Norquist’s statement that Barack Obama was John Kerry with a tan. Ryan Lizza weighs in on the fine line the GOP is walking this election cycle with playing the race card. McStrategy Of the Week Keith reports on the latest talking points to come out of [...]
  
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• The Political Economy of Media (Part II) by Stephen Lendman

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:15:42 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research June 27, 2008 Review of Robert McChesney’s book McChesney’s book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings. In them he covers “enduring issues” and “emerging dilemmas.” Part I of this review discussed some of them. [...]
  
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• Ralph Nader says no to wire tapping

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:36:54 +0000

  Dandelion Salad votenader08 “Ralph Nader says no to wire tapping“, posted with vodpod see The Audacity of Arrogance by Joel S. Hirschhorn www.votenader.org/
  
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• Big Dog, Little Tail: The American Elite Resolves on War With Iran

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:25:03 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Chris Floyd Empire Burlesque Friday, 27 June 2008 I. Let’s be clear about one thing: Israel will not attack Iran without the full knowledge and approval of the United States government. The trigger of the “warning shot” of Israel’s long-range air-strike exercise last week was actually pulled in Washington. The Israelis will not force or deceive the [...]
  
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• The Audacity of Arrogance by Joel S. Hirschhorn

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:07:45 +0000

  by Joel S. Hirschhorn featured writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org June 27, 2008 Anyone who doubts the downside of hubris should think of the losing campaign of Hillary Clinton. Like cholesterol in arteries, extreme arrogance can block seeing political realities. And Barack Obama is exhibiting horrendous hubris by, for example, flip-flopping on his pledge to use federal campaign financing for the general [...]
  
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• Smell the Roses by Dale Allen Pfeiffer

  Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:18:08 +0000

  by Dale Allen Pfeiffer featured writer Dandelion Salad Dale’s blog post Suicidal Tendencies 6/27/08 (www.mountainsentinel.com) Why does it seem that every time the price of gas goes up, motorists respond by driving faster? Is it some misguided belief that if they reach their destination quicker, they will use less gas? Or are rising prices and desperation invoking some lemming-like instinct [...]
  
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• Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement Part One

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:39:46 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Used with permission by the author. By jibbguy Op-Ed 6-2008 Free Energy? In this series of articles, we will attempt to examine several “Free Energy” devices, and explain their workings in a very simplified way; while discussing the proposed theories behind them. Also, we will take a look at the new inventors and researchers working within [...]
  
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• Mosaic News - 06/26/08: World News From The Middle East

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:10:37 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Warning . This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. linktv For more: http://www.linktv.org/originalseries “Gaza: A Tense Calm,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar “Suicide Bomber Kills 15 in Anbar Province,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE “Western Oil Companies Return to Iraq,” Syria TV, Syria “Tehran Warns Europe Not to Tighten Sanctions,” [...]
  
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• Keith Olbermann: Then and now + Olbermann’s reply & Obama’s Secret Plan to Protect the Rule of Law

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:03:23 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Glenn Greenwald Salon Thursday June 26, 2008 07:22 EDT (updated below - Update II) On January 31 of this year, Keith Olbermann donned his most serious face and most indignant voice tone to rail against George Bush for supporting telecom immunity and revisions to FISA. In a 10-minute “Special Comment,” the MSNBC star condemned Bush for wanting [...]
  
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• Evo Morales: A Call for Socialism?

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:28:49 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Thanks to Socialist Standard by Stephen Shenfield From the June 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard On 21 April, 2008, President Evo Morales of Bolivia delivered the opening address to the Seventh Session of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. His speech included the following passage: “If we want to save the planet earth, [...]
  
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• Disaster Capitalism on a Grand Scale By Rowan Wolf

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:31:08 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Rowan Wolf www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/ 6/24/08 As the cost of food and fuel spirals out of control, and the mortgage and credit crises all strike at a global level, one has to ask if this is a &ldquoerfect storm” or a manufactured opportunity - or both. In her book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein [...]
  
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• Disaster Capitalism on a Grand Scale By Rowan Wolf

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:31:08 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Rowan Wolf www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/ 6/24/08 As the cost of food and fuel spirals out of control, and the mortgage and credit crises all strike at a global level, one has to ask if this is a &ldquoerfect storm” or a manufactured opportunity - or both. In her book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein [...]
  
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• Scahill: Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:05:57 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Jun 15, 2008 pdxjustice Media Productions - www.pdxjustice.org “Scahill - Blackwater: The Rise of the…“, posted with vodpod see Blackwater Scahill-Jeremy
  
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• Noam Chomsky interviewed by Peter Coyote + Uncomfortable Comfort Zones

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:32:15 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Chomskyan Excerpt of the show “The Active Opposition” Hosted by Peter Coyote. Aired on Link TV http://www.linktv.org “Noam Chomsky interviewed by Peter Coy…“, posted with vodpod *** Noam Chomsky - Uncomfortable Comfort Zones unitednatures March 11, 2008 Noam Chomsky - Uncomfortable Comfort Zones highlights the manipulation of sheeple corralled past broken Greek statues of democracy. Covering US imperialism, globalization, media manipulation, human [...]
  
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• Bushco’s Warrantless Wiretap Scam Rolls On

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:47:18 +0000

  Dandelion Salad jperryam Please contact your senators and demand that they vote NO on the new wiretapping legislation that not only grants immunity to telecoms who helped the Bush administration illegally spy on innocent American citizens, but also allows the illegal spying to continue with no accountability whatsoever. And please share this info with all your friends and [...]
  
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• Robert Wexler on Hannity & Colmes June 26, 2008

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:38:59 +0000

  Dandelion Salad videocafeblog Robert Wexler appearing on Hannity & Colmes. Why any Democrat comes on this show is beyond me because Hannity does not do interviews. He does gotcha’ game hit pieces. “Robert Wexler on Hannity & Colmes Jun…“, posted with vodpod
  
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• Michael Franti & Spearhead: Hey World (Remote Control Version)

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:22:15 +0000

  Dandelion Salad FrantiV June 26, 2008 “Hey World (Remote Control Version)“, posted with vodpod
  
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• Victor’s Justice Vs. Morality - The Hitchens Conundrum

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:18:06 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Patrick J. Buchanan Global Research June 26, 2008 Post Chronicle Did Hitler’s crimes justify the Allies’ terror-bombing of Germany? Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, “Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War”: “The stark evidence of the Final Solution has ever since been enough to dispel most doubts about, say, the [...]
  
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• Advanced Imperialism: A Phase of Capitalism - A Marxist perspective

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:03:43 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Carl Pinkston Global Research June 25, 2008 On April 26, 1917, V.I. Lenin published a major piece on imperialism titled “Imperialism – Highest Stage of Capitalism“. Lenin was able to draw from J.A. Hobson, Imperialism, and Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Capital. Lenin conducted extensive research on imperialism from wide array of writers, but he was very critical [...]
  
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• Countdown: Axis Of Appeasement + The Terror Card

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:40:21 +0000

  Dandelion Salad June 26, 2008 videocafeblog Axis Of Appeasement Keith talks to Hillary Mann Leverett about the deal struck with North Korea by the Bush administration. The Terror Card Keith continues his report on Charlie Black’s statement about a terrorist attack being good for McCain and Mike Murphy’s ridiculous remark making excuses for Black about reporter cleavage. Joshua [...]
  
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• Top Cheney aide downplays his role in interrogation policies + videos

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:26:22 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Marisa Taylor McClatchy Newspapers Thursday, June 26, 2008 WASHINGTON — Two of the Bush administration’s most influential lawyers on Thursday downplayed their roles in crafting controversial legal policies in the war on terrorism, even as they rejected criticism that the president had overreached in asserting sweeping executive powers. …continued FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog may contain copyrighted material. [...]
  
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• The fighting that exacerbates Somalia’s hunger

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:37:30 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Warning . This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. AlJazeeraEnglish Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somali adults and children are malnourished and in urgent need of medical treatment. This comes as local human rights groups claim conflict in the country has [...]
  
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• Britain’s War in the Cause of Fear and Ignorance By John Pilger

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:07:43 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By John Pilger 06/26/08 “ICH” The British lawyer Gareth Pierce, celebrated for her defense of miscarriage of justice victims, wrote recently: “Over the years of the conflict, every lawless action on the part of the British state provoked a similar reaction: internment, ‘shoot to kill’, the use of torture, brutally obtained false confessions and fabricated evidence. [...]
  
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• Gore Vidal: History of the national security state

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:49:22 +0000

  Dandelion Salad TheRealNews More at http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?op… Become a member and take advantage of our great DVD offer. Find out how! “Gore Vidal: History of the national s…“, posted with vodpod
  
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• Words, Words, Mere Words by Ralph Nader

  Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:47:52 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader June 25, 2008 Senator Obama said earlier today that I haven’t been paying attention to his campaign. Actually, I have. And it’s clear from Senator Obama’s campaign that he is not willing to tackle the white power structure - whether in the form of the corporate power structure or many of the [...]
  
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• Mosaic News - 06/25/08: World News From The Middle East

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:40:49 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Warning . This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. linktv Headlines coming soon! “Mosaic News - 06/25/08: World News Fr…“, posted with vodpod
  
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• Elections, Capitalism, And Democracy By Charles Sullivan

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:33:55 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Charles Sullivan 06/26/08 “ICH” Because so many of the people on the political left fear that John McCain will become the next president, they have allowed themselves to see the very moderate democratic candidate, Barach Obama, as a desirable alternative to the decidedly ghoulish McCain, rather than supporting a genuine progressive like Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia [...]
  
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• Internet Connection is Now Fixed by Lo

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:55:08 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Lo Just a note to say that I finally fixed the problem with my Internet connection.  It was the router.  I walked to the cable company and exchanged the old one for a new one and presto, the connection is back. Then my mouse wouldn’t work.  So, after a call to a friend who suggested [...]
  
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• Internet Connection is Now Fixed by Lo

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:55:08 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Lo Just a note to say that I finally fixed the problem with my Internet connection.  It was the router.  I walked to the cable company and exchanged the old one for a new one and presto, the connection is back. Then my mouse wouldn’t work.  So, after a call to a friend who suggested [...]
  
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• DHS Announces $79 Million in State Grants for REAL ID

  Posted: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Department of Homeland Security Release Date: June 20, 2008 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today Fiscal Year 2008 REAL ID Demonstration Grant awards totaling nearly $80 million to assist states in improving the security of state-issued driver’s licenses (DL) and identification documents (ID). Grants will fund state-specific [...]
  
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• Revolutionary Organization Today: Part Two

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:25:46 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by John Riddell & Paul Le Blanc Socialist Voice June 25, 2008 Part One of this special feature contains Paul Le Blanc’s talk “Lenin and the Revolutionary Party Today.” Part Two is an exchange of emails between John Riddell and Paul Le Blanc about that article. We encourage feedback: Reader comments on both parts are here. Comment by John Riddell Dear [...]
  
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• Revolutionary Organization Today: Part One

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:14:33 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Paul Le Blanc Socialist Voice June 25, 2008 Part One of this special feature contains Paul Le Blanc’s talk “Lenin and the Revolutionary Party Today.” Part Two is an exchange of emails between John Riddell and Paul Le Blanc about that article. We encourage feedback: Please post comments at the end of Part Two. Introduction Anyone familiar with the socialist [...]
  
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• Countdown: Wexler & The Terror Card + Energy Policy + Bushed

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:13:09 +0000

  Dandelion Salad June 25, 2008 VOTERSTHINKdotORG Congressman Wexler *We need to be looking into Impeachment! videocafeblog Krugman on Energy Policy Keith reports on McCain’s new energy proposals he rolled out in Las Vegas this week. Paul Krugman weighs in. Bushed! Tonight’s: Afahanistan-Gate, Gitmo-Gate and Rove-Gate. Worst Person And the winner is…Rupert Murdoch. Runners up Gretchen Carlson and Bill O’Reilly. [...]
  
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• Climate Chaos Is Inevitable. We Can Only Avert Oblivion

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:47:59 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Mark Lynas ICH-06/24/08 The Guardian June 17, 2008 Sometimes we need to think the unthinkable, particularly when dealing with a problem as dangerous as climate change - there is no room for dogma when considering the future habitability of our planet. It was in this spirit that I and a panel of other specialists in climate, economics [...]
  
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• The Subprime Trump Card: Standing up to the Banks

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:28 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Dr. Ellen Brown Global Research June 25, 2008 webofdebt.com “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on [...]
  
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• GOP: The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is The Lack Of Fear Itself

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:16:30 +0000

  Satire Robert by R J Shulman Dandelion Salad featured writer Robert’s blog post June 25, 2008 WASHINGTON – Facing the possibility of losing the White House and more seats in the House and Senate this fall, Republican leaders have blamed a lack of focus for their erosion of power. “We have spent too much time on war mongering and not enough on fear [...]
  
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• The Subprime Trump Card: Standing up to the Banks

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:28 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Dr. Ellen Brown Global Research June 25, 2008 webofdebt.com “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on [...]
  
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• GOP: The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is The Lack Of Fear Itself

  Posted: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:16:30 +0000

  Satire Robert by R J Shulman Dandelion Salad featured writer Robert’s blog post June 25, 2008 WASHINGTON – Facing the possibility of losing the White House and more seats in the House and Senate this fall, Republican leaders have blamed a lack of focus for their erosion of power. “We have spent too much time on war mongering and not enough on fear [...]
  
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• Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill by Greg Palast

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:59:21 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Greg Palast Thursday, June 26, 2008 Chicago Tribune (revised) An earlier version of this report originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Photos by James Macalpine (1993) Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And [...]
  
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• The Political Economy of Media by Stephen Lendman (McChesney)

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:54:29 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research June 25, 2008 Review of Robert McChesney’s book (Part I) Robert McChesney is a leading media scholar, critic, activist, and the nation’s most prominent researcher and writer on US media history, its policy and practice. He’s also University of Illinois Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the [...]
  
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• State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:49:16 +0000

  by Andrew G. Marshall featured writer Dandelion Salad June 25, 2008 Shining Light on the “Black World” In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, “Worldwide Attack Matrix,” which was “outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 [...]
  
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• Mosaic News - 06/24/08: World News From The Middle East

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:32:15 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Warning . This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. linktv For more: http://www.linktv.org/originalseries “Ceasefire in Gaza, War in the West Bank,” Dubai TV, UAE “IDF Might Consider Missing Soldiers in Lebanon Dead,” IBA TV, Israel “Lebanese Conflict Flares Up in the North,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE “Al Qaeda [...]
  
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• Cindy Sheehan Support Democracy Concert + STRATA: The New National Anthem

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:07:09 +0000

  The Real Cindy Sheehan by Cindy Sheehan Dandelion Salad featured writer Cindy Sheehan for Congress June 25, 2008 Warning . This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. STRATA Presents: The New National Anthem TheMarsArmy August 08, 2007 Iraq war footage with “The New National Anthem” by Strata playing in the background…. The [...]
  
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• Riding the Rails by Ralph Nader

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:39:35 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader June 24. 2008 With the rapid expansion of federal spending responding to the perceived national security requirements after 9/11, passenger railroad supporters looked forward to a tripleheader. First passenger railroad service would have to be upgraded and expanded to facilitate mass population evacuations from cities during attack emergencies. Second, by embarking on a “national [...]
  
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• Glenn Greenwald On Antiwar Radio

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:47:52 +0000

  Dandelion Salad AntiwarRadio June 24, 2008 Glenn Greenwald, blogger at Salon.com and author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses the particulars of the congressional Democrats’ sellout of the 4th Amendment and complete capitulation to the Bush administrations’ lawless wiretapping program and the new realignment for liberty. Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in [...]
  
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• Venezuela and the change of eras by Trent Hawkins

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:29:22 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Posted with permission by Green Left Weekly (note: if you want to repost, you’ll have to get permission from them.) by Trent Hawkins Green Left Weekly 20 June 2008 Fred Fuentes, who has spent a year working in Venezuela, will be a special guest speaker at the Resistance National Conference in Sydney, June 27-29. Green Left Weekly’s Trent [...]
  
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• Gas Could Fall To $2 If Congress Acts, Analysts Say

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:38:36 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Rex Nutting & Michael Kitchen ICH June 24, 2008 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Limiting speculation would push prices to fundamental level, lawmakers told The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday. Testifying to the [...]
  
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• Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution (robots)

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:46:36 +0000

  Dandelion Salad TEDtalksDirector http://www.ted.com Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what’s necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals’ tricks. “Robert Full: How engineers learn from…“, posted with vodpod [...]
  
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• Adam Grosser: A new vision for refrigeration

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:42:11 +0000

  Dandelion Salad TEDtalksDirector http://www.ted.com Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he’s come up with a system that works. “Adam Grosser: A new vision for refrig…“, posted with vodpod [...]
  
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• Billion-Dollar Babies By Nick Turse

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:56:31 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Nick Turse www.tomdispatch.com June 24, 2008 Five Stealth Pentagon Contractors Reaping Billions of Tax Dollars The top Pentagon contractors, like death and taxes, almost never change. In 2002, the massive arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman ranked one, two, and three among Department of Defense contractors, taking in $17 billion, $16.6 billion, and $8.7 billion. [...]
  
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• Countdown: The Terror Card + No Country Club for Obama + US Attys

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:58:03 +0000

  Dandelion Salad June 24, 2008 videocafeblog The Terror Card Keith reports on the response of the Obama campaign on Charlie Black’s remarks, McCain’s similar remarks about how playing the fear card might help President Bush in 2004, and how the fear card has been played by the Republicans who want to scare all of us to death. [...]
  
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• Inside “The Family”: Jeff Sharlet Speaks About His Unique Look at American Evangelicals

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:08:34 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by ANDY GREENE www.rollingstone.com Jun 17, 2008 10:43 AM Six years ago journalist Jeff Sharlet went undercover in the underground evangelical organization known as the “The Family.” The group consists of Congressmen, members of the executive branch and many other D.C. powerbrokers. Unlike Pat Robertson and other widely known Christian conservatives, the Family operates outside of the [...]
  
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• Gas-Pump Gouging; Just Don’t Blame The Saudis By Mike Whitney

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:18:45 +0000

  Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 06/24/08 “ICH“ “I’ve seen this bad movie before. It’s the Enron movie, which hit the West Coast power-markets like a bomb because the federal government was asleep at the switch. Now it’s happening again with oil prices.” Rep. Jay Inslee D-WA There is no oil shortage, not yet at least. That doesn’t mean we’re [...]
  
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• Bush Discovers He’s Not Descended From Texas Cowboys, But Is A Rich Kid From Connecticut

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:01:01 +0000

  Satire Robert by R J Shulman Dandelion Salad featured writer Robert’s blog post June 24, 2008 CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush told reporters that he was totally in shock to have discovered that he was really a child of wealth and privilege rather than coming from a long line of wranglers from the Lone Star State. “You could have knocked me for [...]
  
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• Rogue Nation: Time to change the course of U.S. history

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:45:21 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Peter Stern Global Research June 24, 2008 It is time for the American people to take back their nation from irresponsible and lackluster special interest-motivated elected officials. Impeaching top members of the Bush administration may be in order. The majority of Americans should be unhappy with our nation’s growth and evolution–or, if you [...]
  
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• Charge Bush With Murder by Francis A. Boyle (audio)

  Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:20:21 +0000

  Dandelion Salad ICH Posted 06/24/08 Source George W. Bush could be indicted at the state level for murder with malice aforethought, that according to internationally recognized legal expert Francis A. Boyle of the School of Law at the University of Illinois. According to Boyle, President Bush deceived US soldiers about the reason for sending them to Iraq. Thus, he [...]
  
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• InternetforEveryone.org Launch

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:42:23 +0000

  Dandelion Salad videofreepress Launch of InternetforEveryone.org at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City (June 24, 2008). Join the initiative at http://www.InternetforEveryone.org Speakers: Josh Silver, Free Press Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures Robin Chase, Meadow Networks, Zipcar Jonathan Adelstein, FCC commissioner Michael Winship, WGA-East Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Tim Wu, Columbia Law School Vint Cerf, Google Larry Lessig, Stanford Law [...]
  
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• 7 Things You Can’t Say in ‘08: In Memory of George Carlin (15 sec vid)

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:27:08 +0000

  Dandelion Salad votenader08 In memory of comedian George Carlin, here’s 7 things that you most likely can’t say in your 2008 Presidential campaign. Vote for the one who breaks the taboo - Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader! http://votenader.org “7 Things You Can’t Say in ‘08: In Mem…“, posted with vodpod see Countdown: Politics & Terror + McCain & Gas [...]
  
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• Confronting Foreign Intelligence and Information Gaps + Feingold on the 4th Amendment

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:09:07 +0000

  Dandelion Salad NewAmericaFoundation A copy of the Senator’s remarks can be found here: http://www.newamerica.net/f…(pdf) “Confronting Foreign Intelligence and …“, posted with vodpod *** Democracy Now! June 24, 2008 “One of the Greatest Intrusions, Potentially, on the Rights of Americans Protected Under the 4th Amendment”–Sen. Feingold Blasts Telecom Spy Bill It’s being described as the most significant revision of the nation’s surveillance law [...]
  
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• Mosaic News - 06/23/08: World News From The Middle East

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:14:11 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Warning . This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. linktv Headlines coming soon! “Mosaic News - 06/23/08: World News Fr…“, posted with vodpod
  
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• Subversion of the Rule of Law: Bush’s Torture Attorneys

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:24:17 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, June 24, 2008 Antifascist Calling… The subversion of the rule of law by the George W. Bush administration was neither accidental nor contingent on executing its fraudulent “war on terror.” On the contrary, within weeks of the 9/11 terror attacks while the remains of the Twin Towers continued to [...]
  
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• Juan Cole on Antiwar Radio (videos)

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:25:07 +0000

  Dandelion Salad AntiwarRadio Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan, discusses the American media’s abandonment of the Iraq war as a topic worth covering, the humanitarian catastrophe that continues to deteriorate, the “excess deaths” in Iraq since the invasion, the total number of Iraqis killed with American complicity over the years, America’s [...]
  
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• Before Scott McClellan, there was Paul O’Neill (videos)

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:25:50 +0000

  Dandelion Salad erkd1 June 24, 2008 “Before Scott McClellan, there was Pau…“, posted with vodpod Paul O’Neill’s interview with 60 minutes regarding his input into the book The Price of Loyalty by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind. This was in 2002, before the Iraq War. Before the selling of war, before the lies of WMDs, aluminum [...]
  
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• McCain and Obama to drop out; Cheney to run on both tickets

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:52:45 +0000

  Satire Robert by R J Shulman Dandelion Salad featured writer Robert’s blog post June 24, 2008 WASHINGTON – Sources close to Vice President Dick Cheney have told the Post Times Sun Dispatch that sometime in late October Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will suddenly drop out of the Presidential race. The source, who wished to remain nameless as well as faceless, [...]
  
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• Venezuela: What a pro-worker government looks like by Trent Hawkins

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:02:48 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Posted with permission by Green Left Weekly (note: if you want to repost, you’ll have to get permission from them.) by Trent Hawkins Green Left Weekly 21 June 2008 This year’s May Day solidarity brigade to Venezuela, the seventh brigade from Australia to be organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), had 12 participants representing various unions. One [...]
  
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• Big Oil - enemy of people and planet by Dick Nichols

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:42:35 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Posted with permission by Green Left Weekly (note: if you want to repost, you’ll have to get permission from them.) by Dick Nichols Green Left Weekly 20 June 2008 The latest surge in the spot price of crude oil (to US$139 a barrel — 87.4 cents a litre) dramatises the urgent need for society to wean itself off [...]
  
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• Iraq story buried by US networks

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:28:35 +0000

  Dandelion Salad TheRealNews More at http://therealnews.com/c.ph… Major networks spend only 2 minutes per week on Iraq war coverage; Lara Logan of CBS joins critique “Iraq story buried by US networks“, posted with vodpod see The Real State of Iraq By Juan Cole
  
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• Is Israel Preparing to Bomb Iran? (videos)

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:06:55 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Democracy Now! June 23, 2008 Is Israel Preparing to Bomb Iran? The New York Times reported Friday that Israel recently carried out a major military exercise that Pentagon officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. More than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter planes took part in the [...]
  
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• Obama’s Pivot by Michael Carmichael

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:46:14 +0000

  Dandelion Salad by Michael Carmichael Global Research June 23, 2008 In the closing minutes of his epic battle with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama unveiled a brilliant new tactic: he pivoted and ran against John McCain. Obama’s focus on McCain rather than his primary opponent gave him presidential stature that led to the collapse of Clinton’s [...]
  
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• Cynthia McKinney Joins Cindy For Congress! (+ video)

  Posted: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:05:58 +0000

  Dandelion Salad Cynthia McKinney For Immediate Release June 22, 2008 (San Francisco) Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Joins Cindy for Congress as Honorary Co-Chair as No-Strings Occupation and War Funding, Telecom Immunity Bills Are Ushered Through Democrat-controlled Congress McKinney: “The point was to change Washington, DC, but instead Washington, DC changed Nancy Pelosi” As a sign of tightening opposition to the [...]
  
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