This Dallas News article is the best, most exhaustive article I’ve seen on the multiple, highly serious environmental nightmares that NOLA, southern Louisiana, and the Gulf now face. Yet, the federal government, with the exception of EPA, are asleep at…

The deepest wound is not that he was incapable of defending the country but that he has shown he lacked the will to do so. In Bush’s own evangelical language, he revealed his heart. The press disclosed a petulant, vacillating…

Oil may average $84 a barrel next year, $93 in 2007, and $100 in the fourth quarter of 2007, as demand outpaces supply, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s chief economist said, jumping ahead of other analysts who are trying to…

A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an…

From OurMedia. Producer Robert Greenwald has released original video interview footage from his documentary, Uncovered: The War on Iraq. These are legal downloads, covered by Creative Commons.   All three full-length files are now available here on Ourmedia. Over 50…

Governor Mitt Romney raised the prospect of wiretapping mosques and conducting surveillance of foreign students in Massachusetts. “How about people who are in settings — mosques, for instance — that may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror,” Romney continued.…

Speculators rushing in as the water recedes Would-be home buyers are betting New Orleans will be a boomtown. Brace yourself for this shocker. And many of the city’s poorest residents could end up being forced out. I can see it…