Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Remember when Enbridge accidentally left hundreds of islands off the maps it submitted in support of the environmental assessment of its Pipelines and Tankers project? Well,…
Ranchers in Texas are reeling from years of drought and heatwaves. Now they’re seeing what little water remains being taken by frackers. With a “bought and paid for” state and…
Mostafa Darwish / EPA, Egyptian security forces move in to clear one of the two sit-in sites of supporters of ousted president Morsi, Wednesday. It is sad to read about…
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls them “biological deserts.” They are the dead zones that are spreading along our coasts and inland waterways. “Habitats that would normally…
As I wrote a few weeks ago – and whether you liked the Muslim Brotherhood or not – they were democratically elected, and then were overthrown in a military coup.…
The real story of the Lac Megantic Train Wreck is yet to be fully told by the MSM. However credit to CBC for this piece including videos. It is a…
“From One Second to the Next” is a 35-minute documentary German filmmaker Werner Herzog produced for AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign about the lethal hazards of texting while driving. “The…
When I read Stephen Fry’s open letter to the IOC, and the continued calls to boycott or move the Sochi Games because of the horrendous and institutionalized homophobic violence within…
NASA has announced another climate change-driven “new normal.” This time it’s the sharp increase in the number, size and intensity of western wildfires.NASA and U.S. Forest Service officials, who have…
Climate change has a lot of losers but it also has a few winners. It’s good to learn that, among the winners, are the giant redwoods and sequoias of coastal,…
Sweatshops ‘R Us! Ripping off employees by paying them less than a living wage , all to pad shareholder profits, is the glory of exploitative capitalism! Long live capitalism! Oh…
Earvin Johnson, formerly of Lansing, Michigan, currently of Los Angeles, California, turns 54 today. Better known as Magic Johnson, this man is one of the most prominent businessmen in America,…
They were vastly underestimated. .@theturner And yet @SaskPower as recently as 2013 was highlighting a #solarpower study from 2000 to guide their grid planning. #skpoli— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) August 14,…
It is a fascinating story. Piper Kerman wrote a book ‘Orange Is the New Black’ which is her life story. Now a comedy-drama series “Orange Is the New Black” has…
Hey you gotta admit he looks like he is having a time. The mayor likes to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time.WFDS
Voter suppression. The home of Andy Griffith, North Carolina, is leading the way. Check this out from ThinkProgress.org: On Monday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed into law a…
Whenever we learn something new and impactful about what our governments or other institutions of power are doing, we owe ourselves a public discussion of these new revelations. Perhaps we…
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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In this case is the Norwegian Prime Minister driving around in a taxicab supposedly picking up unsuspecting passengers…
The Sun is doing a clarification, but I wanted to do more than that. Here it is: I owe Glen McGregor a clarification, and perhaps even a correction. But I…
