Gulf oil spill
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 22-28 August, 2010
28 August, 2010 — Strategic culture foundation 2010-08-22 Elena PUSTOVOITOVA The Rising Star of Gen. Hamid Gul “The former General holds that the longer the US forces stay in the region – in Iraq and Afghanistan (or in Pakistan, if they choose to move into the country) – the more they will antagonize the respective Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 August, 2010: Church to Burn Copies of Koran to Mark 9/11
4 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26077.htm Israel-Lebanon Tensions Flare After Skirmish Leaves Four Dead By Continue reading
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The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf By Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld
The scope and scale of this disaster are impossible to communicate. While flying in giant, arcing circles around the source, I saw nothing but oil in every direction. Jonathan Henderson works for the Gulf Restoration Network. While looking out at the literal sea of oil beneath us, he reminded us that, at the moment, 75,000… Continue reading
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Fending For Themselves By Dahr Jamail
Theresa is a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. They are a small community of self-described Indians that live in southern Louisiana along a small stretch of the Bayou Pointe-au-Chien. Now, oil from the BP disaster threatens their very existence. Continue reading
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Live from Planet Norte: Totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder By Joe Bageant
The uniformity on Planet Norte is striking. Each person is a unit, installed in life support boxes in the suburbs and cities; all are fed, clothed by the same closed-loop corporate industrial system. Everywhere you look, inhabitants are plugged in at the brainstem to screens downloading their state approved daily consciousness updates. iPods, Blackberries, notebook… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 June, 2010: No Solution to U.S. Crises / Black Politics Ends / U.S. Social Forum Begins / Fascism Enters Through "Terror" Door
23 June, 2010 — Black Agenda Report America Can’t Solve Crises Because It’s a Company-Owned Town by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Great Gusher in the Gulf is a political, not simply an economic and environmental, crisis. “No amount of public disgust at BP has moved Obama to behave as if he is beholden Continue reading
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Gulf Fisherman: ‘It’s Heartbreaking’
Dwayne Price, a charter boat fisherman, gave the AP’s Bonny Ghosh a tour of oil-soaked Barataria Bay in Louisiana. Price decried the impact of the oil spill on the areas wildlife and pleaded for more help cleaning it up. Continue reading
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A deadly bubble? The Earth in Revolt?
21 June, 2010 — Brasscheck I have no idea whether what these videos propose is true, but it has the ring of plausibility (see also The Final End of the Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm By Dr. Tom Termotto). Part One Part Two Continue reading
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The Final End of the Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm By Dr. Tom Termotto
Please be aware that oil and gas exploration, drilling and extraction have been conducted for many decades in the Gulf. Therefore we know that there are an untold number of vast empty caverns which have been emptied of their oil and gas. We also know that, when a repository has been emptied very quickly, there… Continue reading
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Global Research Gulf Oil Spill Selected Articles 6 May – 15 June, 2010
14 June, 2010 — Global Research Gulf Oil Spill “Could Go on Years and Years” … – by F. William Engdahl – 2010-06-11 The Obama Administration and BP are not working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. The Gulf Spill Continues: Is Continue reading
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Hurricane Season: The Oil is Headed Up the East Coast
News, background and links to information. Continue reading
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Ten Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill By Daniela Perdomo
It’s been 37 days since BP’s offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, crude oil has been hemorrhaging into ocean waters and wreaking unknown havoc on our ecosystem — unknown because there is no accurate estimate of how many barrels of oil are contaminating the Gulf. Continue reading
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Corporations fight over oil leak as spill continues – RT Top Stories
A month after a BP oil rig explosion led to crude oil being pumped directly into the Gulf of Mexico, the scandal over who is to blame for it is only gathering momentum. An estimated 28 million liters of oil has gushed in the water, though some scientists say the real figure is much higher. Continue reading
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Gulf Oil Spill may be 19 times larger than BP & Gov’t say
One month after explosion of Deepwater Horizon rig, journalists update situationJesse Freeston interviews journalists at McClatchy’s DC bureau to get the latest on the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Journalists believe that BP and the Government may be hiding information on the severity of the leak. Those who fish for a living in the Gulf of Mexico… Continue reading
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Shelling out or just a Shell game? By William Bowles
As far I know I’m not on any Shell mailing list but Shell must have been doing their homework and Googled me because low and behold, on the 17 May I got a press release from the biggest energy company on the planet. Amongst other things, the press release informs me: “The Comprehensive Shell Remediation… Continue reading
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US Senate Begins Oil Spill Cover-Up By Tom Eley
The Senate hearing resembled a falling out among thieves, with multi-millionaire executives—who, until April 20, had collaborated in thwarting basic safety and environmental considerations—each blaming the other for the explosion. Continue reading
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Earth still needs a chance By Erik Wallenberg
Earth Day came at the end of the 1960s radicalization, but its origins date back to the late 1950s and early ’60s. In the shadow of this latest ecological disaster, it’s worth considering what gave rise to the coordinated collective action of Earth Day. We’ve come a long way since 1970, and yet in some… Continue reading
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BP: The Worst Safety and Environmental Record of All Oil Companies Operating in the United States By Tyson Slocum
BP is a London-based oil company with the worst safety and environmental record of any oil company operating in America. In just the last few years, BP has pled guilty to two crimes and paid over $730 million in fines and settlements to the US government, state governments, and civil lawsuit judgments for environmental crimes,… Continue reading
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Spill Here, Spill Now by Firedoglake
“It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore.” — Barack Obama Continue reading
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