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Reports: Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Create Magnetic Soap to Cope With Oil Spills

Cartoons: Pipeline Politics

A/V Booth: Obama Plays Defense With First Commercial

Reports: The Myth of ‘Isolated’ Iran

Reports: Danger Waters

Reports: For Once, Let’s Just Leave Iraq Alone

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

Ear to the Ground: Iran to U.S.: Your Aircraft Carrier Is Not Welcome Here

Reports: Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

Ear to the Ground: China Wins Afghanistan Oil Contract

A/V Booth: Class Warfare, Brought to You by the Muppets

Ear to the Ground: How China Has Benefited From America’s Hostility to Iran

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: What Hugo Chavez Is Up To

Reports: Unhappy Democrats Threaten Obama Jobs Bill

Ear to the Ground: Obama Will Make the Wealthy Pay for His Jobs Bill

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Tensions Mount in Revolution Central

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Ear to the Ground: EU Slaps a Ban on Syrian Oil

Ear to the Ground: The Russians Are Coming (or Not)

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Reports: Why Perry Hates Regulators: They’re Bad for (His) Business

Reports: D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake

Reports: Victory in Tripoli: They Did It

Ear to the Ground: Pipeline Protesters Jailed Outside White House

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Insatiable Zionism

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Ear to the Ground: 6 of 7 Fracking Evaluators Are on Industry’s Payroll

Reports: The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President

Reports: Japan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking

Reports: This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance

A/V Booth: Bernie Sanders Goes After the Oil Industry

Reports: Weiner’s No Longfellow

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Attorney General Takes Aim at ‘Fracking’

Reports: The Sky Really Is Falling

Cartoons: Gas Prices

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Ear to the Ground: Oil Prices Continue to Tumble

Ear to the Ground: Exxon Posts Enormous Profits

Reports: A New Battle Over Resources in Israel

Ear to the Ground: British Government Memos Tie Iraq Invasion to Big Oil

Reports: Cuba’s New Economy

Reports: U.S.-Backed Bloodshed Stains Bahrain’s Arab Spring

Cartoons: Attack of the GOP Budget Rider Leeches

Ear to the Ground: What Oil Spill? Transocean Hands Out Bonuses for Best Safety Year Ever

Reports: Lessons of Libya

Reports: The Sleeping Giants of Tiny Bahrain

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Reports: Paradox and Principle in the New Mideast

Reports: Why the GOP Is Obsessed With ‘Leadership’

Reports: Be Consistent—Invade Saudi Arabia

Reports: The Libyan Question: Now What?

Reports: Those Useful Tyrants

Cartoons: The Policy Bracket

Cartoons: Bloody Unrest

A/V Booth: ‘Background Briefing’: Rising Oil Prices Explained

Cartoons: You Bet Your Sweet Gas!

Cartoons: Protect the Oil Zone

Ear to the Ground: Fed Makes More Hopeful Noises

Reports: No Such Thing as Risk-Free Nuclear Power

Ear to the Ground: Pro-Gadhafi Forces Make Headway in Oil Ports

Cartoons: Gas Liberty

Reports: Obama Has 11 Options in Libya, None Ideal

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Cartoons: The Overthinker

Cartoons: Gadhafi Shows His Strength

Ear to the Ground: Baby Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead Along the Gulf

Reports: How the U.S. Should Respond to the New Arab World

Reports: Fight for a World Without Coal

Reports: The Devils We Know

Reports: How South Korea Handles Piracy

Reports: American-Israeli Policy Tested by Arab Uprisings

Reports: What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt

Reports: Barack Obama: Paradoxical Whig

Reports: Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated

Ear to the Ground: Riots Rock Algeria Over Prices, Jobs

Reports: A Far From Happy New Year

Reports: The Game-Changer List

Reports: Everything Is Negotiable, Except Nature

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Sues BP, Transocean for Damages ‘Without Limitation’

Reports: It’s Morning in China

Ear to the Ground: Cheney May Face Nigerian Bribery Charges

Ear to the Ground: BP Sheds Latin Oil Producer

Ear to the Ground: Iran’s Parliament Schemes to Impeach Ahmadinejad

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Ear to the Ground: Halliburton Blamed for Shoddy Construction in Gulf Oil Disaster

Ear to the Ground: BP and Other Polluters Pay for Senate Campaigns

Reports: Tea Party Robber Barons

Ear to the Ground: Russia to Help Venezuela Build Nuclear Power Plant

Ear to the Ground: Again With the Offshore Drilling

Reports: Ahmadinejad and the Limits of American and Israeli Power

A/V Booth: How Robots Clean Up an Oil Spill

Reports: Obama and Iraq: ‘Through a Glass, Darkly’

Ear to the Ground: R.I.P. Gulf Oil Well

Cartoons: Blame

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gets Cold Feet in Arctic Drilling

Ear to the Ground: The $8 Billion Oil Spill

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over’ (Full Video and Text)

Reports: Obama and the Virtues of ‘Politicking’

Reports: The Billionaire Right-Winger

Reports: Why Gen. Petraeus’ Assassination Inc. Threatens Us All

Ear to the Ground: The Giant Cloud of Oil Hiding in the Gulf

Reports: Change Accomplished

Reports: The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century

Cartoons: Fresh Seafood

Ear to the Ground: Fishermen Test Troubled Gulf Waters

Reports: Lessons From the Oil Spill

Ear to the Ground: BP Pumps Money Into Relief Fund—It’s No Gusher

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Clinton Nostalgia

Cartoons: Tony Hayward’s Exit [A Cartoon From Slovakia]

Reports: Quack Medicine on Taxes

Ear to the Ground: $8.7 Billion More Disappears in Iraq

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Sherrod, New Media & Race; Unemployment Benefits; BP

Ear to the Ground: Alarms Were Disabled on Doomed Oil Rig

Reports: We All Live on Turtle Island

Ear to the Ground: Oil Spill Has a Price Tag and It’s High

Ear to the Ground: Big Oil’s War on Earth

Reports: Calling All Future-Eaters

Reports: The Socialist Who Coddles Business?

Ear to the Ground: BP Says the Hole Is Plugged

Reports: A Change Election—in the Wrong Direction

Reports: There’s Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gov’t Tries Again in Bid for Offshore Drilling Ban

Reports: Millions Watch Rich Guy Get New Job

Reports: If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil

Ear to the Ground: Tea Partying for Fun and Profit

Ear to the Ground: Crisis of Capitalism

Cartoons: July 4, 2010

Ear to the Ground: Tanker Truck Blast Kills 230 in the Congo

Reports: A New Deregulatory Push in the Energy Heartland

Ear to the Ground: Facebook Fatigue

Cartoons: Oil Spill Upside

Reports: Hawking: Aliens ‘No Longer Interested’ in Invading Earth

Reports: After 41 Years, a Belated Victory for Butter

Reports: Arbitrary and Capricious, Indeed

Reports: The Satire Keeps Spilling Out

Cartoons: The World and the Soccer

Cartoons: Full Service or Self Serve? [A Cartoon From Sweden]

Reports: From Bhopal to BP

Reports: All Shook Up for BP

Cartoons: Gas Prices

Cartoons: Barton Bath

Reports: BP Develops Technology to Convert Lies Into Energy

Reports: A Green ‘New Deal’ Now

Ear to the Ground: Lightning Strikes BP Vessel, Fire Halts Oil Capture

Reports: Tiger: At Least I Didn’t Screw the Entire Gulf of Mexico

Ear to the Ground: Double the Oil, Double the Problems

Reports: Putting the ‘I’ in Environment

Ear to the Ground: Sarah Palin: Competent Manager

Ear to the Ground: Senate Protester Gives Herself the Pelican Treatment

Cartoons: British Pelican

Reports: BP Knew: Years of Internal Probes Warned That Neglect Could Lead to Accidents

Reports: Obama’s Trips to the Gulf Serve an Important Need

Reports: Obama’s Double Bind

Cartoons: Sunday Morning

Reports: BP’s Mr. Sunshine

Reports: Not a Job for Angry Daddy

Ear to the Ground: Administration Says Yes to New Oil Well in Gulf

Cartoons: Could Be Worse

Reports: In Memory of All That Is Lost

Reports: Who Runs America’s Response to the Oil Blowout?

Cartoons: Do Something

Ear to the Ground: Five Reasons Obama Should Take Over BP

Reports: Adm. Cool in a Very Hot Seat

Ear to the Ground: Best Chance to Stop Gulf Spill Is Months Away

Cartoons: Oil Change

Reports: Experts Propose Plugging Oil Leak With BP Executives

Ear to the Ground: BP Accused of Hiring Temps for Obama Visit

Reports: Defending Our Natural Resources From Presidents and Profits

Reports: The Michael Jordan of Bailouts

Ear to the Ground: Gulf Spill Worst in U.S. History

Reports: The Muddle Oozing From the Gulf

Cartoons: Winners and Losers

Reports: EPA Weighs Sanctions Against BP

Cartoons: I Came, I Saw

Cartoons: British Petroleum—Here to Help You

A/V Booth: Salazar: ‘All-Stars’ Will ‘Kill This Well’

Ear to the Ground: A Month Later, Feds Are Angry With BP

Reports: Laying Bare the Myth of ‘The Left’

Reports: Oil Rules

Cartoons: Petroleumville

Ear to the Ground: Freedom From Porn Edition

Reports: Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit

A/V Booth: ‘60 Minutes’ Investigates BP’s Blowout

Reports: BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’

Cartoons: Blame Slick

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Oil Companies on Blast

Cartoons: Scandal

Ear to the Ground: Clash of the Oil Titans

Cartoons: Capping the Damage

Reports: Will We Keep Hating the Government?

Reports: BP: Billionaire Polluter

Cartoons: Kill Baby Kill

Ear to the Ground: Obama Is Sending BP the Bill

Cartoons: BP Beach

Ear to the Ground: Continental to Be United

Ear to the Ground: Rough Seas Spread Oily Misery

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Drill, Baby, Drill

Ear to the Ground: Obama Proposes Offshore Drilling Plan

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