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Disappearing Land, Disappearing Forests, Disappearing Creatures
In this week's Fracked Earth News: Why Louisiana is losing so much land. The Navajo struggle for fresh water. Canada halts gold mine in Peru after protests. → Read More
VIDEO: Cove Point Gas Terminal Protesters Speak Out
20 activists went to trial on February 23 for protesting the construction of a dangerous Dominion Resources gas export terminal in Cove Point, Maryland. → Read More
Houston We Have A Problem: Oil Workers Strike For Safety & Fair Labor
The United Steelworkers have organized a historic and steadily growing oil workers strike at oil refineries throughout the Gulf Coast region. → Read More
Fracked Earth News: The Keystone XL Veto
The top story this week in Kate Lanier's weekly roundup of energy news is Barack Obama's Keystone XL veto. Also: More oil train ("bomb train") safety woes. → Read More
Chicago's Message In Motion: Reparations For Police Brutality!
Activists took to the Chicago's trains to raise awareness that Mayor Rahm Emanuel blocked a proposed law that would aid the victims of police brutality. → Read More
Facing Felonies, Rick Perry Joins Fracking Pipeline Corp
As he plans his next presidential bid, Rick Perry joins the board of Energy Transfer Partners, a corporation building a controversial pipeline across Iowa. → Read More
VIDEO: Displaced, The Syrian Refugees Of Calais, France
This short documentary by Amel Guettatfi follows the lives of three Syrian refugees who found themselves stuck in a squalid camp outside the Port Of Calais. → Read More
Bloody-handed CODEPINK Activists Confront Henry Kissinger
Activists were removed from a Senate Armed Services Committee meeting after attempting to perform a citizen's arrest on this notorious war criminal. → Read More
As Senate Approves KeystoneXL, Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Gets Another Permit
As activists pressure Obama to veto building the Keystone XL Pipeline's northern leg, permits are already creating another tar sands pipeline in the US. → Read More
Pakistan Has No Female Mufti For Women To Consult
Although Pakistan has hundreds of thousands of female scholars of the Quran, the women of the country lack an authority figure in times of need. → Read More
Mining The Earth: Building Snowmen On Doomsday
Kate Lanier's weekly roundup of global energy and climate news, from debate over the Keystone XL Pipeline to nuclear energy in India. → Read More
Gaza In Arizona: Israeli Tech Firms Are Arming The US-Mexican Border
US Border Patrol agents are getting a boost in military technology and militarized strategy, courtesy of Israel's Palestinian "testing grounds." → Read More
The First Amendment Is The REAL Patriot Act
This key amendment to the Bill of Rights isn't just about freedom of speech or religion, but also defines what patriotism means in a free society. → Read More
Report: Corizon Health Services Killed Rikers Prisoner Bradley Ballard
The death of an inmate at notorious Rikers Island in New York highlights how prison privatization harms the human rights of prisoners in America. → Read More
Martin Luther King's Lost Speech & The BDS Movement
Speaking in London in 1968, Dr. King voiced his opposition to Apartheid in South Africa. His words ring true today for Israeli apartheid against Palestine. → Read More
A List Of All 61 Journalists Killed In 2014
Two major watchdog groups keep track of journalists killed in the line of duty. Here are the names of all the lost, last year. → Read More
Benign Intent: Tools of Corporate Media Propaganda
Simon Wood argues that the mainstream media in the United States is far from neutral, but instead serves its corporate owners and a corrupt government. → Read More
2015 Predictions: I Can't Breathe ... Can You?
Eric Garner, a harmless man, who was strangled to death by a brutal police officer, has given me a simple answer to a question that other Americans have often asked me over the years, "why do you live abroad?" At the heart of everything is the ongoing collapse of the middle class in the most highly developed countries. This is something that is destabilizing precisely those countries whose role… → Read More
Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Who's The Murderer?
Kate Lanier's selections from global energy news, from fracking to indigenous struggles for sacred land and water against corporate development. → Read More
VIDEO: 2014 In Review -- Islamic State in Iraq & Syria
Yasmin Khatun, reporting for the Islam Channel, reviews 2014: the year the Islamic State became an undeniable force in the Middle East and global politics. → Read More