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Scientists Say Gulf Oil Disaster Altering Food Web
Save, Baby, Save George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! Better regulations won't end what went wrong:... ...
The Militarization of the Gulf Oil Disaster
Anne McClintock, CounterPunch: "In the Gulf, the forever spill has become the forever war. A calamity of untold magnitude is unfolding and, alongside it, a strange militarization has emerged, as the language... ...
Oceans' demise near irreversible: Moving toward the tipping point
A sobering new report warns that oceans face a "fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation" not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature,... ...
Unjust spoils
The Nation by Robert Reich 06/30/10 Consider: in 1928 the richest 1 percent of Americans received 23.9 percent of the nation’s total income. After that, the share going to the richest 1 percent steadily... ...
The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse Than the BP Oil Disaster
World Business Academy, Truthout: "How many crises will it take? The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and Big Oil will pale in comparison to the destruction wrought by Big Nuclear if we do not... ...
Study foretold a consequence of oil leak
Boston Globe 06/21/10 It wasn’t until seven weeks after the BP oil well began gushing that the company acknowledged oil remained hidden under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and it continues to dispute... ...
Gov. Jindal, Oil Firms Challenge Obama Deepwater Drilling Ban
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2010/06/21-9 B P 'Downplayed' Oil Concerns http://www.common dreams.org/video/2010/06/2 1-0 -------- Just a Few Things BP Does NOT Want You to Know… Video Every freedom-loving... ...
BP Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes
New data has been released showing that the massive BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is already contaminating one major protected North American Marine Ecoregion, containing more than 60-percent of America's... ...
Billions of New Nuke Giveaways in Kerry-Lieberman Bill Exposed
These tax breaks totaling $9.7 billion to $57.3 billion (depending on the type and number of reactors) would come on top of the Kerry-Lieberman measure's lucrative $35.5 billion addition to the more than... ...
How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon
US Taxpayers: Pay for Nuclear Plants, Stuck with Nuclear Waste http://www.commondre ams.org/headline/2010/06/1 7-7 -------- How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon Nick Turse,... ...