Published on Thursday, June 17, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Ancient Oceans: The Planet’s Plunder Will Continue in the Name of Progress by Robert C. Koehler “Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins . . .” Now, along with endangered species, the Gulf spill has given us a new category: endangered oceans. The challenges presented [...]
Archive for June 2010
Five Questions for BP’s Tony Hayward
June 17, 2010Published on Thursday, June 17, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Five Questions for BP’s Tony Hayward by Robert Weissman BP CEO Tony Hayward today faces what is sure to be a tough inquisition before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Here are five questions Hayward should be forced to answer under oath: 1. Do you agree that [...]
Deficit Fear-Mongering Gets Results in US Senate as Unemployed Pay the Price
June 16, 2010Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by The Washington Post Deficit Fear-Mongering Gets Results in US Senate as Unemployed Pay the Price Senate Democrats Dismantling Aid Package Due to Deficit by Lori Montgomery President Obama’s urgent plea for more spending on the economy ran into the political buzz saw of the Senate on Tuesday, where [...]
Rape and Spillage
June 16, 2010Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by TruthDig.com Rape and Spillage by Robert Scheer What’s with the president’s war analogy on the oil spill? It’s as if some alien force, “The Invasion of the Slippery Sludge,” suddenly attacked us. “Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al-Qaida,” President Barack [...]
Human Trafficking: Not Someone Else’s Problem
June 16, 2010Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by The Nation Human Trafficking: Not Someone Else’s Problem by Greg Kaufmann In the ornate Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the US State Department—before a standing-room-only crowd that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as “one of the biggest we’ve had here”—Clinton recognized Laura Germino, the antislavery campaign [...]
BP Is a Corporate Criminal
June 16, 2010Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by Creators Syndicate BP Is a Corporate Criminal by Jim Hightower Gosh, how quickly things turn. One day, you’re a strutting peacock — the next day, you’re just another gasping, oil-covered bird. In early April, BP was strutting about in full corporate splendor, showing off the $9 billion in [...]
Food Prices to Rise by Up to 40% Over Next Decade, UN Report Warns
June 16, 2010Published on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by The Guardian/UK Food Prices to Rise by Up to 40% Over Next Decade, UN Report Warns Growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production will send prices soaring, according to the OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisatio by Katie Allen Food prices are set to [...]
My Thoughts for Tuesday
June 16, 2010My thoughts for Tuesday I just watched the President’s speech. It was a good speech, but there were parts of it that really turned me off. I still don’t think he totally gets it. He is talking about them getting more of the oil up in a short time frame, which I believe is [...]
BP: It’s Not a Contest Between the US and Britain; It’s a Contest Between Citizenship Interests and Shareholder Interests
June 15, 2010Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Robert Reich’s Blog BP: It’s Not a Contest Between the US and Britain; It’s a Contest Between Citizenship Interests and Shareholder Interests by Robert Reich This from today’s Wall Street Journal: In a letter sent Sunday to U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson, BP said it expects [...]
Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates?
June 15, 2010Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by The Nation Is Blackwater’s Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates? by Jeremy Scahill With Blackwater’s top deputies indicted on federal charges and the company up for sale, rumors are swirling that Prince is preparing to bolt to a country with no extradition treaty with the US. [...]
