Published on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by TruthDig.com Deficit Doves by Amy Goodman Getting out of the red is the new black. Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget. This week, they attacked unemployment benefits. Ultimately, they are going after Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, the venerable programs once considered untouchable “third rails” of [...]
Archive for July 2010
Deficit Doves
July 21, 2010BP’s Oil Spill Caused by Fed’s ‘Dangerous Culture of Permissiveness’
July 21, 2010Published on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by the McClatchy Newspapers BP’s Oil Spill Caused by Fed’s ‘Dangerous Culture of Permissiveness’ by Erika Bolstad WASHINGTON – The Bush administration focused from its earliest days on ramping up domestic oil and gas production, charged House Democrats, but at the same time allowed the industry a “dangerous culture [...]
Beyond Cheney’s Energy Policy: Clean, Green, Safe, and Smart
July 20, 2010Published on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by The Nation Beyond Cheney’s Energy Policy: Clean, Green, Safe, and Smart by Michael T. Klare If the ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico tells us anything, it is that we need a new national energy policy-a comprehensive plan for escaping our dangerous reliance on fossil fuels and [...]
Pre-Recession Unemployment Rates May Not Be Reached for a Decade
July 20, 2010Published on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Pre-Recession Unemployment Rates May Not Be Reached for a Decade WASHINGTON, DC – As recent calls for additional stimulus and the extension of unemployment benefits meet with stiff opposition, Congress appears to have underestimated the profound effect of the current recession [...]
BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico’s Food Chain
July 20, 2010Published on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Inter Press Service BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico’s Food Chain by Dahr Jamail NEW ORLEANS (IPS/IFEJ) – Shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico grow with drops of petroleum inside them, coyotes eat oil-soaked birds, and sharks suffocate when the oil coats their gills. Oil droplets have [...]
Methane Seeps, Tipping Points Feared as Congress Sleepwalks
July 19, 2010Published on Monday, July 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Methane Seeps, Tipping Points Feared as Congress Sleepwalks Dangerous Methane Seeping from Siberian Seabeds by Gary Houser “Methane is leaking from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf into the atmosphere at an alarming rate… Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger [...]
US Allows BP to Test, Keep Shut Gulf Well Despite Seepage
July 19, 2010Published on Monday, July 19, 2010 by Agence France Presse US Allows BP to Test, Keep Shut Gulf Well Despite Seepage by Allen Johnson NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The US government authorized BP to keep closed the busted Gulf of Mexico oil well for 24 more hours to allow tests Monday even though experts detected [...]
Thoughts for Sunday
July 18, 2010Thoughts for Sunday What a morning I have had so far to day. I love my mom as she gave birth to me and I wouldn’t be here if she hadn’t loved me enough to bring me into this world, but she is wrong to think just because I don’t see things as she [...]
Pandora’s Box in the Gulf: Does Hope Remain?
July 18, 2010Published on Sunday, July 18, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Pandora’s Box in the Gulf: Does Hope Remain? by Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg “From the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort,” Obama said. “BP is operating at our direction.” (White House press conference, May 26, 2010) Americans, [...]
Big Oil Makes War on the Earth
July 18, 2010Published on Sunday, July 18, 2010 by TomDispatch.com Big Oil Makes War on the Earth The Gulf Coast Joins an Oil-Soiled Planet by Ellen Cantarow If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil — and just know that you’re not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian Amazon, [...]
