The latest on Dandelion Salad Global Research RSS Feed28 November, 2011 — Climate and Capitalism
“this timely work methodically reviews and demolishes the pseudo-science of Populationism … reinforcing humanist and internationalist arguments exposing the methods and politics and pseudo-statistics of populationist organisations”
28 November 2011 — Global Research - The National Security Archive – 2011-11-25
Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran
Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info
Compiled and Edited by William Bowles, December 22, 1988. This file is a compilation of texts that have either been uploaded to or posted on this system [New York On-Line] or Peacenet, which have been edited to remove duplication, and/or innacuracies and irrelevancies.
Updated 20/6/03. I came across this file very recently whilst doing some research on Michael Ledeen. I’ve edited out some of the contents as they refer to demonstrations or calls to phone people who are probably no longer around. But other than these minor edits, it’s as it was in 1988. It makes interesting reading 15 years later. — William Bowles
28 November 2011 — Global Research – Ynet News
[Ed's note: these are not new allegations, see 'October Surprise', a chronology of events compiled by me that documents the fact that Israel acted as the 'go-between' for the US, selling US-supplied weapons to Israel that Israel then sold to Iran. WB]
Comment by Michael Carmichael
New documents just released via declassification reveal Israel’s role in the Iran-Contra Affair that rocked the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
Russia’s NATO envoy to visit China, Iran over missile defense
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 16:24
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
28 November 2011
Closed-door politics: ‘Economic war’ against Syria seals crisis
Russiatoday.ru Today at 18:17
The Arab League’s sanctions against Damascus are in fact ‘a declaration of economic war’ against the Syrian people, which ‘closed windows’ for resolving the country’s crisis, the country’s senior diplomat says.
28 November 2011 — Information Clearing House
Pakistan Has Had Enough
By Simon Tisdall
The belief that weak, impoverished, divided Pakistan has no alternative but to slavishly obey its master’s voice could turn out to be one of the seminal strategic miscalculations of the 21st century. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29826.htm
28 November 2011 — Dissident Voice
Unknown snipers played a pivotal role throughout the so-called ‘Arab Spring Revolutions’ yet, in spite of reports of their presence in the mainstream media, surprisingly little attention has been paid to to their purpose and role.
26 November 2011 — Global Research
ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Forward
First in Global Research’s Interactive Reader Series, we bring to the attention of our readers a collection of Global Research articles on the “Arab Spring”, covering recent developments in several countries across the Middle East and North Africa region.
27 November 2011 – SolidarityEconomy.net via Foreign Policy in Focus
War: The Wrong Jobs Program
More than 40 years ago, long before anyone had ever heard of Barack Obama, before the collapse of Bear Stearns, and before contemporary debates about bailouts and debt ceilings, two authors, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, considered a tricky problem. In times of downturn, the government must spend to stimulate the economy. Yet getting the political establishment to agree on one particular program of spending seemed nearly impossible.
Baran and Sweezy phrased the conundrum as a question: “On what could the government spend enough to keep the system from sinking into the mire of stagnation?”
25 November 2011 — Global Research – Antifascist Calling…
The Iranian people know what it means to earn the enmity of the global godfather.
As William Blum documented in Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, 1953′s CIA-organized coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, guilty of the “crime” of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, may have “saved” Iran from a nonexistent “Red Menace,” but it left that oil-rich nation in proverbial “safe hands”–those of the brutal dictatorship of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
28 November 2011
WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award
AFP
SYDNEY — WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQRUCe6qxRkV8J7Q8Ix6HUPcD_Eg?docId=CNG.2fcb0cdc5742d63c5b84cb23c3483da7.271
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
28 November 2011
US and Pakistan enter the danger zone
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
Pakistan’s relations with the US continue to plunge after foreign forces breached the ”red line” with Friday night’s fateful air strike that killed 28 Pakistani soldiers. Islamabad’s response stops short of declaring an end to participation in the US-led war in Afghanistan, but the colossal breakdown of diplomacy at the political, military and intelligence levels is a shocking state of affairs for a superpower with over 100,000 troops in Pakistan’s vicinity. – M K Bhadrakumar (Nov 28, ’11)
28 November 2011 — Stop NATO
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
May be updated as the day wears on…
28 November 2011
Will there be another Arab Spring in 2061?
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
Sixty-two years after Cairo tried to snuff out the Muslim Brotherhood with a targeted assassination, the movement stands on the threshold of power in Egypt, while its brand of political Islam is rising throughout the Arab World. The Brotherhood of today seems more aware of the need to be democratic, but it faces the same temptations that corrupted and eventually tore down Arab nationalism. – Sami Moubayed (Nov 28, ’11)
27 November 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian Authority unable to pay salaries & pensions due to Israeli seizure of funds
IMEMC – With the Israeli government continuing to seize Palestinian tax money and hold the funds in Israeli banks, the Palestinian Authority announced on Sunday that it will be unable to pay salaries to civil servants and pensions to the elderly and disabled this coming month. …
26 November 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Turkey: Relations Not To Be Normalized until Israel Lifts Gaza Blockade
IMEMC – Turkish Minister of Foreign Affair, Ahmed Dawud Aghlo, reconfirmed that relations between Turkey and Israel won’t be normalized till the latter issues an official statement, apologizing for Israeli attacks on the Turkish “Freedom Flotilla” in bound to Gaza and lifting Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, the Maan News Agency reported Friday afternoon. …
25 November 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Islamic Jihad Will Not Participate In New Elections
IMEMC – The Islamic Jihad Movement stated Friday that it will not participate in new presidential and legislative elections scheduled to be held in May next year. …
25 November, 2011 — Global Research
According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisation, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from?
jason 00:08 on December 10, 2011 Permalink |
Can’t handle the truth, eh?
jason 07:06 on December 9, 2011 Permalink |
So the Earth can support 700 trillion people? Oh, it can’t? Then there are limits to how many people it can support? Oh.
To say that our overconsumption of the planet’s resources is caused only by per-person consumption and has nothing to do with our ever-multiplying numbers is pseudo-science at its worst and so ridiculous, it’s amazing that anyone but rightwing nut jobs would take the idea seriously. The science of carrying capacity is the rockbed of sustainability. And anyone with a brain the size of a pea should know that it is not possible for a population to grow indefinitely without also increasing its total consumption and severe negative impacts on people and planet.
Carrying capacity is also social as well as biophysical in scope. Just because it may be possible to crowd more people into one place doesn’t mean that it is wise or compassionate to do so. What happens to quality of life when solitude, quiet, elbow room, and sensitive connections to unconfined nature are taken away? What other kinds of losses in quality of life transpire as more and more people take up less and less limited space, piling up higher and higher away from solid organic ground?
Quoting Betsy Harmon is like quoting a braying donkey, for few people write with as much hatred in their tone as she. It’s like a person who keeps their dog tied up in their yard all day barking constantly and doesn’t ever take it out for walks, and when a neighbor complains, the owner says, “you’re complaining because you don’t like dogs.” No, the owner is the one who doesn’t like dogs, in particular her own dog.
So why is it okay and compassionate to suggest to people that they reduce their per-person consumption but it’s not okay and hateful to suggest to people that it’s okay not to have kids if they don’t want them or to only have two or fewer? Maybe you hate people because you don’t want them to enjoy being able to have nice things and to play with their toys or to have more leisure time with their friends and family. Maybe you hate people because you want to see more and more of them imprisoned, miserable and dying off under increasingly crowded and desertifying conditions.
What is the cause of overpopulation? The dominator style economic and political system. Whenever communities live free of such systems, they naturally keep their populations in check because their continuance is dependent upon staying within the limits of local natural resources. The dominator style systems disrupt the co-relationship that communities have with these limits and thus they start overpopulating and overconsuming unaware that they are not only depleting their own local resources but also depleting resources in other regions and thereby causing hardship and suffering abroad.
To suggest tacitly or otherwise, then, that our population can and should keep growing unchecked is not only boneheaded, but cruel.