IS AMERICA LOSING ITS “BACKYARD IN THE SOUTH”? Considering the U.S. and Latin American reactions to the recent Venezuelan election, it would appear that things are seriously awry for the U.S. in that backyard. While Washington tries to subvert the electoral process that (narrowly) elected a successor in the mold of Hugo Chavez, other [...]
Oil giant BP has been hit with a “record” fine from the federal government as liability for 2010′s deadly explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s only one step in a lengthy claims process over spill damage that will likely take many more months to conclude. But breathless coverage over the [...]
THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RELATING TO THE BP GULF OIL SPILL DISASTER ARE BROUGHT AGAINST…A LOW-LEVEL ENGINEER?!? (Pro Publica) The good news? After more than two years, the Justice Department has finally filed the first set of criminal charges in BP’s catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oli spill, the worst single [...]
WORLD POWERS SCRAMBLE FOR ARCTIC SUPREMACY AS CLIMATE CHANGE TRANSFORMS THE TOP OF THE GLOBE. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Besides the familiar and well documented consequences of man-made climate change — rising seas, melting ice, mass extinctions – a potentially more deadly twist may be becoming more apparent. Several of the world’s foremost military powers, including the United States [...]
ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW TO RUN ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM, I LEARNED BY SERVING ON THE BOARD OF BRITISH PETROLEUM. (Black Agenda Report) Errol Davis, head of Atlanta school system, has the kind of “background” in public education that is typical of other school chiefs in other cities as well as Secretary of Education Arne [...]
Two years ago, the cataclysmic fire and spill at BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico captured the nation’s attention, sullied the oil giant’s corporate reputation and brought the dangerous form of oil exploration the Gulf is known for to a halt. Today, the process to return BP and drilling operations in [...]
OCCUPY VERIZON: AMERICA’S LARGEST CELLPHONE COMPANY WILL START CHARGING CUSTOMERS TO PAY THEIR BILLS. (CNET) In the latest example of mind-numbing detachment from America’s corporate sector, Verizon announced on Thursday that it will immediately begin charging a $2 fee for customers that pay their bill online or over the phone with a credit or debit [...]
THE COLD DATA OF GLOBALIZATION HITS AMERICAN WORKERS; HARD. (Huffington Post) A government report finds that American multinational corporations, which employ a significant chunk of the American workforce and for years have been the engine behind job growth in the United States, have made a dramatic shift in employment patterns that is shipping a massive [...]
As the one-year anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill approaches this month, the companies deemed responsible by a presidential commission for what could end up being the worst environmental disaster in United States history are aggressively trying to put the incident behind them. As oil thought to be from the ruptured Macondo well [...]
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