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by Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
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Caleb Maupin (Facebook Page)
March 22, 2021
“We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class to win the battle of democracy.
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“The Democratic Party has been quite effective in frightening progressives into backing a party that is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America.” — Chris Hedges
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Mar 20, 2021
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the rise of America’s secret government with journalist and author, David Talbot.
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Sputnik, Mar. 18, 2021
March 19, 2021
In a strategic review, the British government says the United States will remain its closest ally because of “shared values” which are allegedly attributed as being democracy, rule of law and human rights.
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist
March 18, 2021
Within today’s capitalist world, particularly the core imperialist countries, the system is held together by a type of cultural hegemony which fits our increasingly grim conditions. This cultural hegemony goes deeper than the set of myths and propaganda narratives that the imperialist media spins to justify the U.S./NATO empire’s perpetual war operations, or the free market fundamentalist dogma that our ruling class uses to justify its cruel neoliberal economic designs. These ideological constructs remain dominant in our culture because for the average person in our society, no cohesive alternative cultural narratives are detectable. It’s due to our lack of culture and guiding ideology that the hypocritical, dishonest ideologies which our ruling class has manufactured are allowed to go unchallenged.
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 17, 2021
“We must answer their call. Our Mother Earth, militarized, fenced-in, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated, demands that we take action. Let us build societies that are able to coexist in a dignified way, in a way that protects life. Let us come together and remain hopeful as we defend and care for the blood of the Earth and of its spirits.” – Berta Caceres, Indigenous rights and environmental activist of the Lenca people, murdered in Honduras in 2016
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Mar. 12, 2021
March 16, 2021
Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future.
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with Chris Hedges
BC Student Government on Mar 11, 2021
The event features a keynote address by Chris Hedges, followed by a discussion with the host, and then ending with a Q&A session for the audience.
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with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Mar 13, 2021
Abby Martin speaks to Eugene Puryear to discuss the big picture of US imperialism in Africa: From the Berlin Conference to the subversion of liberation movements to neocolonial puppets and the current sprawl of AFRICOM “counterterrorism.”
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Mar 13, 2021
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish, artist and cartoonist, about the cultural requirement for revolution.
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by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 12, 2021
A young Kansas grain farmer and I were riding on a train through Iowa when the subject of the climate crisis came up. He was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed son of a multigenerational Midwest farming family. I’d grown up on a potato farm in Northern Maine. Both of us spent our teenage years in overalls. We compared tractor models (him, John Deere; me, 1960s FarmAll).
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 11, 2021
“This is the end of freedom,” declared the definitive talking potato head himself, Glenn Beck. He was speaking about Hasbro’s decision to drop the “Mister” pronoun from their “Potato Head” toy. In fact, there will still be Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head characters respectively. The company just decided to remove the male descriptor “Mister” as the primary name of the brand. The same week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to drop six books from the popular franchise due to their obviously racist portrayals of Asian and Black people. And on the conservative end of the internet, all hell broke loose.
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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, Mar. 7, 2021
March 10, 2021
The superficial distortions propagated by many American politicians and pundits only serve to sustain the status quo of oligarchic tyranny.
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theAnalysis-news on Mar 9, 2021
The bombing of Syria was a violation of U.S. and International law. It was the U.S. that violated the nuclear deal with Iran and Biden should fulfill rejoin the agreement without new conditions. Phyllis Bennis and Larry Wilkerson join Paul Jay on theAnalysis.new.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
March 8, 2021
Feel free to find five of these reasons crazy. Any one of them should be sufficient alone.
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