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 )

Oil Spill ‘Threatens Our Way of Life’

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2010 In a rhetorical move that indirectly, and probably unintentionally, compares the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to terrorism, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has said the growing slick "threatens our way of life" as it encroaches upon the state's coastline. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )