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Double Dividend: Make Money by Saving Nature
George Lakoff, Truthout: "Saving nature is the central issue. Carbon fuels destroy nature. The Gulf Death Gusher is the most visible sign. But signs are everywhere. Overall global warming increases hurricanes... ...
Freedom in the Grace of the World
By Chris Hedges Corporate systems, which grow our food and ship it across country in trucks, which drill deep into the ocean to extract diminishing fossil fuels and send container ships to bring us piles... ...
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... ...
The power of the presidency
The Nation by Laura Flanders 06/17/10 Presid ent Obama’s announcement that BP would set aside $20 billion in a fund for victims of the Gulf spill is a welcome relief to communities where businesses and... ...
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,... ...
Massive Spill Forces Fossil Fuels Rethinking
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2010/06/16-8 T he Gulf and Our Oily Campaign-Finance System http://www.commondr eams.org/headline/2010/06/ 16-3 A 'Nightmare Well' Now Everyone's Nightmare http://www.commo ndreams.org/headline/2010/ 06/16-6 Day... ...
Greenwashing the Pentagon
Joseph Nevins, Truthout: "As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, just one of many manifestations of perilous ecological degradation across the planet, the need to challenge war and militarism... ...
Feds Knew of Gulf Spill Risks in 2000, Document Shows
Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers: "A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive... ...
Gulf oil spill could mark a turning point for Obama
Christian Science Monitor by John Hughes 06/08/10 When President Bush clambered up on a pile of rubble after 9/11, seized a bullhorn, put his arm around a firefighter, and rallied the nation, it was... ...
Signs of an Emerging Police State
by Pastor Chuck Baldwin As with the "war on drugs," President Bush's "war on terror" is the cornerstone doctrine which allows the executive branch of the federal government to run roughshod over the Constitution... ...