The Capitalists Are Afraid

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Sep 9, 2019 A Business Roundtable statement about the purpose of corporations shows that ruling elites fear their crimes are coming back to haunt them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Joe Biden Taps Influence Industry Despite Pledge on Lobbyists

By BRIAN SLODYSKO / The Associated Press Sep 3, 2019 The money the presidential candidate has received from employees of major lobbying firms dwarfs that of the rest of the Democratic field. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Plastic Is Just as Destructive to the Climate as Oil and Gas

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig May 30, 2019 As awareness of climate change surges globally, energy companies are shifting from oil and gas to the equally destructive plastics industry. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Facebook’s New Transparency Rules Are Being Dodged With Ease

Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica Nov 1, 2018 A new investigation finds a range of industries were able to successfully mask their sponsorship of political ads on the social network. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Baltimore Sues Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change

Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams Jul 21, 2018 The city's filing comes just a day after a federal judge dismissed New York City's suit against five top fossil fuels firms, and about a month after another federal judge tossed out a pair of suits brought by two cities in California. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

More Than Exxon: Big Oil Companies for Years Shared Damning Climate Research

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Dec 23, 2015 New investigative reporting exposes that a task force headed by the American Petroleum Institute also knew about global warming since the 1970s. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 5, 2015 Two prominent Green Party members call for third-party involvement in city council and other local races. This, they rightly say, is a fundamental step toward the large-scale changes needed to save society. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Canada Clears Way for Ecuadorean Case Against Chevron Over ‘Amazon Chernobyl’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2015 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that Ecuadorean villagers can go after Canadian assets of the U.S.-based oil company Chevron in one of the most bitterly contested environmental cases in history. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

25 Years After Exxon Valdez, BP Was the Hidden Culprit

Greg Palast / Truthdig Mar 24, 2014 Two decades ago I was the investigator for the legal team that sold you the bullshit on the crackup of the Exxon Valdez Now, on the 25th anniversary of that disaster, and four years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, the Obama administration has authorized BP to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- and it's all set to happen again Now, on the 25th anniversary of that disaster, it's all set to happen again. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Indigenous Groups Win Right to Try to Seize Chevron’s Canadian Assets

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 20, 2013 A Canadian court Tuesday granted Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen the right to attempt to seize the oil giant's Canadian assets due to a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court that found the company liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution and the ruined health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporations Enlist Ex-U.S. Spies to Surveil Nonprofits

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 26, 2013 A new report reveals how corporations use ex-U.S. intelligence agents to spy on environmental, anti-war, consumer safety and other kinds of nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch May 23, 2013 We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )