A small town in Arkansas is dealing with an oily mess after an ExxonMobil tar sands pipeline burst beneath dozens of homes, an accident that many say portends the fate of more American communities if the much larger Keystone pipeline is built. The spill comes at a time of rising political support for TransCanada’s massive [...]
Political posturing has trumped science and environmental concerns in the long and tortured journey to the increasingly inevitable construction of the massive Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Bipartisan pressure is building on President Obama both sides await a delayed decision from the White House on whether the pipeline will [...]
Environmental activists and ordinary citizens joined in what was heralded as the largest rally against climate change in American history on Sunday, marching past the White House to send an unmistakable message to President Obama against construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Stakes are high in the fight to kill the proposed Keystone pipeline that [...]
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: WE NEED “MORE THAN A MELEE” TO CURB POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST FOLKS WHO ARE JUST “HANGING OUT” IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. Gary Leupp describes news accounts and videotape evidence of an incident in Anaheim of an unarmed man who was shot in the back as he fled from police after he was [...]
“THERE’S NO QUESTION THIS PIPELINE WILL SPILL — IT’S A QUESTION OF WHEN.” (Salon) As Republicans and Democrats in Congress pressure the federal government to fast-track approval of the massive Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands — President Obama has just ordered the southern half of the project to be constructed — new studies find [...]
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 [...]
OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN: CURRENT GIBBERISH NAME FOR U.S. PART IN RE-COLONIZATION OF ARAB MIDDLE EAST. (World Socialist) Bill van Auken, quoting at length from neo-con guru Phillip Zelikow, describes the U.S. foreign policy motives behind the country’s involvement in the “humanitarian intervention” that has destroyed much of Libya. Zelikow’s statements actually belittle the humanitarian definition [...]
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