Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 15, 2012 The planned route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline is fast becoming a flashpoint in the war of attrition against the corporate state. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Obama Fast-Tracks Southern Portion of Keystone Pipeline

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2012 Responding to criticism from Republicans for supposedly stonewalling development of the nation’s oil supplies, President Obama has ordered the government to accelerate work on a 485-mile Texas-to-Oklahoma portion of the recently rejected 1,170-mile Keystone XL pipeline. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 30, 2012 It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable, but that was the old Canada. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Keystone XL Media Bias

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2012 Media Matters turned its bias detectors on the corporate media’s coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil way that the Obama administration put on hold last week. The analysis found that in all mediums, pipeline supporters got more talk time than their opponents, and counted the ways reporters parroted industry’s talking points. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Redford: We Can’t Afford To Be at the Mercy of Big Oil

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2012 Remember when Sundance was known as the scrappy little flick-fest that could, ushering many an indie darling to theaters of mass consumption from its unlikely setting, nestled in a tony resort town in the Utah mountains, somehow stoking lefty sensibilities all the while? Yeah, that was a long time ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pipeline Politics

John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune Jan 23, 2012 Dig deeper

Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Nov 9, 2011 More than 10,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., last Sunday with a simple goal: Encircle the White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Investigators and Activists Target Keystone XL Pipeline

Staff / Truthdig Nov 8, 2011 Friday, just two days before thousands of protesters encircled the White House, the State Department inspector general's office said it would launch an investigation into the vetting process for a controversial oil pipeline that would snake its way from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Bill McKibben and Protesters

Staff / Truthdig Aug 26, 2011 Bill McKibben, along with some 2,000 activists protesting the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, are our Truthdiggers of the Week. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Oil Pipeline Protesters Arrested

Staff / Truthdig Aug 24, 2011 Hundreds of environmental activists have shown up outside the White House this week -- prepared to risk arrest -- to protest a proposed transnational oil pipeline project they say will do more harm than good. More than 200 people have already been arrested. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 24, 2011 The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 58-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gatesThe White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by 5. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pipeline Protesters Jailed Outside White House

Staff / Truthdig Aug 21, 2011 Author, activist and founder of the global environmental movement 350.org Bill McKibben was arrested outside the White House on Saturday along with 64 others protesting the construction of a pipeline from Canada's tar sands sites to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )