Gabe Roth, Fix the Court, joins Thom. According to a new report from “Fix The Court” - three of the nine Supreme Court justices hold common stock in public companies. But the more alarming part of the report is the fact that those justices voted in the interests of their financial holdings a whopping 89 More
From the article: Salt caverns 1,000 feet or more underground have been used for gas storage since the middle of the last century and have a checkered history. A January 2015 analysis of Crestwood’s plan, based on documents by both independent scientists and an industry geologist, found 20 serious or extremely serious incidents in American salt cavern storage facilities between 1972 and 2012. Ten of these involved large fires and explosions; six, loss of life or serious injury; eight, the evacuation of from 30 to 2,000 residents; and 13, extremely serious or catastrophic property loss.
Jeffrey: The US business model did not evolve to plan sustainability. Public works programs are funded on a formula of minimum cost because cost is somehow limited to the cost of construction.
Kelly: What are the true costs to society of fossil fuels? According to a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) study, fossil fuel companies are benefiting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, $10 million per minute, every minute, each and every day. The Guardian reports that the $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments.
The leak, which was discovered Wednesday afternoon, is the largest pipeline spill in the province in 35 years, when a 54,000 barrel oil spill became Canada’s worst-ever pipeline incident.
There have been twice as many deaths from white male, right-wing terrorists than there have been from Islamic terrorists since 9/11, and, yet, we’ll spend more than $3 trillion in 2015 fighting Islamic terrorism... NOKOMIS EDITION (2nd Monday) July 2015, VOL. XXV, ISSUE 21 By Ed Felien Southside Pride July 13, 2015 How do you get More
Giroux: Rather than viewing Trump’s comments as a political virus that has deep roots in nativist apoplexy and a long legacy of racism and state violence, his despicable remarks are reduced to an uncivil rant by a bullying member of the billionaire class with no reference to the unmarked status of white privilege and its underlying logic of white supremacy. Such commentary at its core is superficial, duplicitous, and represents a flight from responsibility and a politics of denial.
On Reality Asserts Itself, Chris Hedges and Paul Jay discuss Ferguson, Baltimore and the need to build a movement with candidates that targets white supremacy and corporate capitalism, the role of violence in revolution and the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Hedges: And it comes down to something as visceral as being a father. I have four children. So I may fail. But I at least want my children to look back and say they tried. We are squandering the future of the succeeding generations, and we have a moral imperative of revolt.
https://youtu.be/xYEBX6UlBLU When the US invades a country, we often only hear about it through the stories of our soldiers, but what do the people we invade and occupy think? If we talk to Afghans, for example, how do they feel about the war we brought to their country? Have we really improved their lives, More
From the earliest colonies, the US has been expanded its domestic empire and conquering native people. ... Has this imperialist urge been institutionalized beyond repair, or can we learn from our mistakes and redefine the way we interact with native people around the world.
Is SWLRT worth the Chain of Lakes? Why not put the transit where the people are? By Susu Jeffrey July 6, 2015 Reviving from a $341 million "funding gap" Southwest LRT proponents reduced the scope of the project by $250 million while cobbling monies together to keep the priciest ever state public works More
