Rand Paul Calls Obama’s Treatment of BP ‘Un-American’

Staff / Truthdig May 21, 2010 Since when is coddling big businesses gone horribly awry a pro-American value? Although it could be inferred that several successive administrations have abided by this economic ethic, leave it to the GOP's newly christened Next Big Thing, Rand Paul (continued) . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BP Launches Video Feed of Gulf Leak

Staff / Truthdig May 21, 2010 Following criticism that it is withholding data and blocking efforts of scientists to understand the scope of the gulf oil spill, the beleaguered oil company BP has agreed to post on a congressional website a live video feed of the oil gusher. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Freedom From Porn Edition

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2010 What Obama hasn't learned about offshore oil drilling, why Steve Jobs and Apple want to offer "freedom from porn," and how GM bamboozled the country into thinking it repaid its bailout money. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit

Amy Goodman / Truthdig May 19, 2010 In the disasters at the Massey coal mine in West Virginia and on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, people were killed. So why aren't the executives of these companies behind bars? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 17, 2010 These deformed individuals carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world lack the capacity for empathy. They possess the peculiar ability to organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications.Those carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Blame Slick

RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 17, 2010 Dig deeper

Massive Undersea Oil Plumes Spell Trouble

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2010 What's 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick? The largest of a set of enormous oil plumes deep in the Gulf of Mexico that suggests that leakage from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than the government and BP originally thought. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Congressional Panel Looks Into Safety Mechanism Glitch in Oil Spill

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2010 The scale of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico might have been better contained had a safety device designed to help in situations like the one that caused the enormous mess performed properly, according to findings presented to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Clash of the Oil Titans

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2010 In the messy wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, three giants of the oil industry -- the aforementioned British Petroleum, perennial favorite Halliburton and Transocean -- were butting heads and looking to stick each other (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Capping the Damage

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BP Claims Progress in Capping Oil Leaks

Staff / Truthdig May 5, 2010 Slight progress has been made in trying to remedy the ecological and corporate nightmare that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become: On Wednesday, the company reported that repair workers were able to shut off one of the three leaks responsible for the catastrophic mess. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Capitalist Hagiography Has Little Room for Saints

Stuart Whatley / Truthdig May 5, 2010 Perhaps the most enervating element of the BP-Deepwater Horizon disaster is its eerie familiarity -- the sheer, inexorable predictability of it all. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )