Texas Can Lead a Green Revolution

Michael Siegel / Truthdig Sep 25, 2019 In a congressional district where voters rely on fossil-fuel jobs, it’s not easy, but it's absolutely essential. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Death by Fracking

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 19, 2015 We are committing suicide by failing to rise up in large numbers to oppose a practice that poisons our air and water, causes epidemics of cancers and other diseases, and lays a hellish hand on the ecosystem. The longer we wait for the political process to work, the more assured is our mutual destruction. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

America Is Open for Business in Iraq

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch Jan 16, 2015 In the midst of the December holiday news-dumping zone, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) quietly notified Congress of several pending arms deals for Iraq. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

BP and the Three Stooges Defense

Greg Palast / Truthdig Sep 11, 2014 Although US District Judge Carl Barbier found BP liable for “gross negligence” last week, some U media failed to mention that he let BP off the hook on punitive damages And that stuns me, given that the record seems to identify enough smoking guns to roast a sizable pigU District Judge Carl Barbier let BP off the hook on punitive damages last week, which stuns me, given that the record seems to identify enough smoking guns to roast a sizable pig . Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Need to Punish Corporate Criminals

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2013 Halliburton's recent "punishment" after admitting that it destroyed evidence related to the 2010 BP oil spill is the very reason The Hill's Ronald Goldfarb says that the "legal fiction that corporations are entities that are distinct from the parties running them" makes for terrible public policy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Halliburton Admits Destroying Deepwater Horizon Evidence

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 26, 2013 The American contractor that worked for BP on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig announced Thursday that it would plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the 2010 explosion that sparked the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Krugman and Stockman Debate, GOP Reps. Investigate Beyonce and Jay-Z, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Apr 8, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including speculation heightens about Hillary Clinton's 2016 prospects and new figures show just how well Dick Cheney's former company made out during the Iraq War. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Frack Fight

By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch Nov 20, 2012 In small hamlets in upstate New York, a loose network of activists is waging a guerrilla campaign not with improvised explosive devices or rocket-propelled grenades, but with zoning ordinances and petitions. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Jun 21, 2012 In the way he has engaged in the geopolitics of oil as part of an American struggle for dominance among the major powers, President Obama’s global energy policies bear an eerie likeness to former Vice President Dick Cheney's. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Feb 26, 2012 If Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press in the U.S. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

BP Accuses Halliburton of Destroying Gulf Spill Evidence

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2011 Halliburton just seems to pop up wherever trouble can be found, such as the Bush White House (through Dick Cheney's chummy history with the company) and also in the ecopocalypse that was the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April 2010. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

NYU’s Studio 20 Releases ‘The Fracking Song’

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2011 A team of student journalists at New York University's Studio 20 program created an extremely clever animated music video to give the American public the lowdown on "fracking," a potentially dangerous method of drilling for oil and natural gas by using pressurized liquids to hydraulically fracture subterranean rock. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )