David Swanson and Margaret Kimberley: Zone of Peace

by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 22, 2023

This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about a Zone of Peace in the Americas, and events in Uganda, and presidential indictments, and everything we find time for with Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report, member of the coordinating committee of Black Alliance for Peace, and author of a wonderful book previously discussed on this show called Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/22/david-swanson-and-margaret-kimberley-zone-of-peace/

Chris Hedges and Roger Hallam: The Climate Crisis Calls For Revolution + Extinction Rebellion Promises ‘Greatest Acts Of Civil Disobedience’ Unless Tories Meet Its Demands, by Sophie Squire

Dandelion Salad
April 21, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Apr 21, 2023

Roger Hallam, the co-founder in 2018 of Extinction Rebellion, was recently released after nearly four months on jail. He was imprisoned for making a 20-minute speech on zoom. He was arrested and jailed because he called for civil disobedience by climate activists, specifically the blocking of major road networks in London.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/chris-hedges-and-roger-hallam-the-climate-crisis-calls-for-revolution/ 

Courage on the Picket Line, by Andrew Moss

by Andrew Moss
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 20, 2023

They prepare in-flight meals for carriers like Air France, Singapore Airlines, and Lufthansa.

But not right now.

Workers for the Flying Food Group (FFG) plant in Inglewood, California are on strike, demanding a living wage, a decent pension, the retention of their health benefits, and their dignity as workers. Represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, the 350 workers at the plant voted overwhelmingly (99 percent) on March 15 to authorize a strike action against their employer, and they went out on strike on April 11.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/courage-on-the-picket-line-by-andrew-moss/

How to Convert a War to Peace, by Tom H. Hastings

by Tom H. Hastings
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 19, 2022

Many attempts have been made to stop war.

Many fail.

Who has done it successfully and what can they teach us?

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/how-to-convert-a-war-to-peace-by-tom-h-hastings/

Will Griffin: The Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence

by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 18, 2023

“As of April 2021, the Department of Defense has been working on 685 projects which are deeply invested in the development of artificial intelligence. Their budget mainly in the joint AI Center has increased dramatically from 89 million dollars in 2019 to 278 million dollars in 2021.

Clearly the DOD is very much invested into the research and development of AI and using this technology throughout the U.S Armed Forces. But what are their aims? What do they plan on doing with such technology? And what are some of the potential impacts of this?” — Will Griffin

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/will-griffin-the-pentagons-artificial-intelligence/ 

Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Russia Leaves Neoliberal West To Join World Majority

by Michael Hudson

Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 17, 2023

Geopolitical Economy Report on Apr 13, 2023

In this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Russia’s economic transition away from the neoliberal West and integration with what it calls the “World Majority” in the Global South.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/michael-hudson-and-radhika-desai-russia-leaves-neoliberal-west-to-join-world-majority/

That’s What A Congress – With Both Parties Dominated By Corporate Predators, Looks Like, by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad

by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Apr. 14, 2023
April 16, 2023

Spring, the season of renewal, is here. The ants are diligently building their little symmetrical ant hills. The robins are in their nests occupied with posterity. And the anointed members of Congress, after a long recess, aka vacation, return to work on April 17^th. The next day, April 18^th is the deadline for filing taxes.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/thats-what-a-congress-with-both-parties-dominated-by-corporate-predators-looks-like-by-ralph-nader/

Mass Murder: Our Wounded Humanity, by Robert C. Koehler

 by Robert C. Koehler

Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 15, 2023

Once again… once again… once again….

I’m sure you know what I’m referring to. Yeah, another — the latest (?) — mass shooting in the United States, this one at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 10, two days ago as I write. Five killed, eight injured. The shooter, an employee of the bank, was killed in a shootout with police. Three officers were injured, including a rookie officer (ten days on the job), who was shot in the head and is struggling to survive. The gunman’s weapon was a nice, reliable AR-15-style rifle, legally purchased at a local gun shop a week earlier.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/mass-murder-our-wounded-humanity-by-robert-c-koehler/

Chris Hedges: Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang Leader or Revolutionary? + Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising

Dandelion Salad

April 14, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Apr 14, 2023

Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti’s purported “gang problem.” But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, “Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising,” offers a different view of Chérizier—not as the leader of a criminal enterprise, but as a political figure leading an armed revolutionary movement. Directors Dan Cohen and Kim Ives join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new project.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/chris-hedges-haitis-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier-gang-leader-or-revolutionary-another-vision-inside-haitis-uprising/

Finian Cunningham and Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

 by Finian Cunningham

Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
April 13, 2023

Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism for fascism. And the charade is finally coming to an end.

Austerity is not some recent policy under neoliberal capitalism. It was born out of the historic crisis in the Western system following the First World War and during the 1930s when fascism became a way to curtail any democratic challenge to the prevailing capitalist system.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/clara-mattei-the-capital-order-how-economists-invented-austerity-and-paved-the-way-to-fascism/

New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively, by David Swanson

 by David Swanson

Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 12, 2023

The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but mentions nothing related to defense. It simply pretends that militarism is defensive by applying that word and by lying that “we face simultaneous and growing military threats from Russia and China.” Seriously? Where?

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/new-york-times-is-now-telling-bigger-lies-than-iraq-wmds-and-more-effectively-by-david-swanson/

Sanctions as Siege Warfare, by Derek Royden

 by Derek Royden

Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 11, 2023

In the distant past, the one place that people could escape a marauding army was behind the walls of a castle. Though this usually protected them from any immediate danger, it created problems of its own. While under siege and waiting for outside help or for the attackers to leave in frustration, those behind the walls could ultimately run out of food and even potable water, which would lead either to surrender or a slow, terrible death.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/sanctions-as-siege-warfare-by-derek-royden/

Rescind AUMF Now, by Rev. Robert Moore

 by Rev. Robert Moore

Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 10, 2023

Recently, the US Senate voted on a bipartisan basis to rescind the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. President Biden, who voted for that AUMF in 2003, has said he will sign it if it gets to his desk.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/rescind-aumf-now-by-rev-robert-moore/

John Michael Talbot: He Is Risen + Pope Francis: Let Us Pray for a More Widespread Culture of Nonviolence

 Dandelion Salad

First video originally published Mar. 27, 2016
April 9, 2023

Happy Easter!

“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. — Mark 16:6

April: For a Nonviolent Culture

“Living, speaking, and acting without violence is not surrendering, losing or giving up anything, but aspiring to everything. As Saint John XXIII said 60 years ago in his Encyclical Pacem in Terris, war is madness. It’s beyond reason. Any war, any armed confrontation, always ends in defeat for all. Let us develop a culture of peace."

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/09/john-michael-talbot-he-is-risen-pope-francis-let-us-pray-for-a-more-widespread-culture-of-nonviolence/

Lee Camp and David Cobb: Imagining A World Beyond Capitalism

Dandelion Salad

April 8, 2023

“We have to come to terms with the fact that these transnational corporations globally and the empire for which the U.S is the capital of corporate Empire—they’re literally going to destroy the planet if we do not stop, interrupt, and transition. And to be clear, the window to do that is literally closing before our very eyes.” — David Cobb

MintPress News on Apr 7, 2023

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/08/lee-camp-and-david-cobb-imagining-a-world-beyond-capitalism/