While the Obama administration continues to boast reductions in U.S. carbon emissions through the incorporation of renewable energy resources such as wind and solar, the darker side of America’s changing role as a “dirty energy dealer” and one of the world’s top carbon pollution exporters is seldom told. As journalist Tim Dickinson explores in a…
Orchestrated overthrow of democratically-elected government: check. Repression, arrest, and death sentences for political opponents: check. Mass crackdown on journalists and critical media: check. Shipment of U.S.-made Apache attack helicopters to government behind said actions: They’re on their way. According to Reuters: Late last month, Human Rights Watch counted itself among those urging against the resumption…
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Standing outside the Duke Energy Center in Charlotte, North Carolina Tuesday, roughly one hundred protesters chanted, “Shame!”—scolding the company responsible for last month’s coal ash spill into the Dan River. The utility has fallen under increased scrutiny since a federal investigation was initiated into the ties between the administration of North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory…
Scientists have made a “very worrying” discovery of four new ozone-destroying gases. The research from scientists at the University of East Anglia was published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience. By comparing current air samples with air samples from “polar firn” snow in Greenland, perennial snowpack which offers archival information, the researchers discovered three chlorofluorocarbons…
Despite professions by intelligence officials that “backdoor” searches have been strictly limited to foreign individuals, reporting Tuesday has revealed that the NSA has also conducted warrantless searches of Americans’ calls and emails. In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Friday, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged, These queries were performed…
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine – Crimean officials have reported that roughly 97 percent of Crimeans voted for independence from Ukraine on Sunday, with a turnout of about 80 percent. Yet the security situation in Crimea has led many to question how free the vote really was. “Leaving the question of the referendum’s legality aside, the situation on…
Four Muslim-American men filed a lawsuit against the FBI on Tuesday, charging that the bureau placed them on the “no-fly list” in retaliation for their refusal to inform on their communities and then denied them the chance to clear their names. Click Here: camiseta rosario central “I do not want to become an informant, but…
Next weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix may have to run behind closed doors after all, according to new reports from the Algarve. That’s despite ticket sales of around 30,000 already having been announced for the event, which is the first Formula 1 race to be held in the country since 1996. The first eight races of…