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 )

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 )

Obama Puts Oil Companies on Blast

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2010 In a stern rebuke of the irresponsibility that has defined the actions of those involved in the Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama has revoked the "cozy relationship" that the US government has had with oil companies and criticized those companies' finger-pointing as part of a "ridiculous spectacle"In a stern rebuke of the irresponsibility that has defined the actions of those involved in the Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama has revoked the "cozy relationship" that the U". Dig deeper ( 1 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 )

Verify, Baby, Verify!

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 12, 2010 “Drill, baby, drill!” Those were the words that Sarah Palin used to electrify the 2008 Republican National Convention. But while she popularized that environment-be-damned slogan, it had already defined the eight years of oil-drilling policy that prevailed during the presidency of George W. Bush. “Drill, baby, drill!” Those were the words that Sarah Palin used to electrify the 2008 Republican National Convention. Dig deeper ( 3 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 )

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 )

Obama Is Sending BP the Bill

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2010 It's difficult to predict how many billions of dollars the cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico is going to end up costing, but President Obama, touring the devastation over the weekend, says he knows who should pay (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rough Seas Spread Oily Misery

Staff / Truthdig May 1, 2010 Amid a wave of finger-pointing, rough waters in the Gulf of Mexico have quickly tripled the surface area of what could become one of the most disastrous oil spills in U.S. history, with the goo already lapping at valuable shoreline habitat. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )