GLOBAL WATER CRISIS GETS SCANT MEDIA OR POLITICAL ATTENTION…AND THAT CAN LITERALLY BE DEADLY. Long thought of as solely and environmental issue, access to clean water can no longer be stereotyped as the domain of “tree hugging” activists. With a shrinking supply, climate change and rampant pollution affecting this quite invaluable resource, water is [...]
AMERICAN PRIORITIES: MORE MONEY FOR PRISONS, LESS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. An alarming trend that has taken hold in the United States is a startling divergence in the amount of public money earmarked for the sustenance of the nation”s system of higher education versus that spent on incarceration. America is now a place where [...]
ALL THE NEWS THAT EVEN THE BBC FEELS COMPELLED TO AIR. The BBC, whose coverage of the Syrian “crisis” practically amounts to cheerleading for the Syrian opposition, is seemingly forced into one of its occasional “lapses” in that role when it airs a piece documenting what may well be a “war crime” involving that [...]
Are companies that are part of the U.S. boom in “fracking” and natural gas extraction using some of the nation’s largest and most respected colleges and universities as front groups to release research favorable to the industry and its push for expansion? That is the conclusion some have reached after high-profile cases of biased reports [...]
Natural gas development has exploded across the United States thanks to non-existent regulations, political support and a nod of approval from the Obama administration. But are the economic and environmental challenges associated with relying on natural gas and other underground fossil fuels deposits being sourced in seemingly every corner of the country as America’s future [...]
No issue has become a more significant election-year “hot button” than gas prices, with prices at the pump spiking to seasonal record highs thanks to an unpredictable global oil market. Naturally, the pain at the pump has led to unfettered political grandstanding from both sides, with both Democrats and Republicans each claiming to outdo the other [...]
TRUST BUT DON’T VERIFY. (Salon) Glenn Greenwald stands on its head Ronald Reagon’s famous admonition to demand evidence of Soviet nuclear disarmament, not to “take their word for it.” Kevin Drum of Mother Jones says—and countless trusting followers of Barack Obama apparently agree—that only a “sociopath” would insist, as did Obama, on the continued imprisonment in [...]
SHELL OIL COMPANY: YOU’RE POLLUTING THE ALASKAN ENVIRONMENT—AND BESIDES THAT, YOU ARE ON INDIAN WATER! (Indian Country Today) A native land claims group, REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands) joins 6 environmental groups in protesting EPA’s granting permits to Shell to drill “exploratory” oil wells in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. ` [...]
What many lawmakers see as a key component of America’s future energy supply is leaving residents of many states quite literally quaking in their sleep, as fallout from aggressive natural gas exploration hit the country in frightening and unexpected ways. Scientific experts have determined that a series of strong earthquakes in a region of Ohio [...]
CRISIS IN PAKISTAN: “THEY DEMONSTRATE COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN LIFE, AND ARE IN STARK VIOLATION OF PAKISTANI SOVEREIGNTY.” The already-crumbling relationship between the United States government and Pakistan was dealt a new blow over the weekend when 25 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an air strike launched by US forces. It was [...]
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