Stories by Yasha Levine

Solar Power Is Now an Option for Even the Most Cash-Strapped Suburbanites

Residential solar leases offer a no-money-down, low-monthly plan that makes solar electricity cheaper than the stuff we get by wire -- and you don't have to buy the panels.
Posted on Jan 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Why Just About Everything You Hear About California's Water Crisis Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

The media and the governor are warning of the "worst drought in history" in California We're being lied to.
Posted on Jan 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food

Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
Posted on Nov 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet

How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply

A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.
Posted on Nov 19, 2009, Source: AlterNet

What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs

It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush’s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: eXiled Online

Dr Pepper's Wet Dream: Water, Government Subsidies and Transfer of Wealth in the Middle of the Desert

A bottling plant in the middle of the desert? In the warped "pro-business" logic of a sprawling, bankrupt desert city in California, the plan made perfect economic sense.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Home Loan Scamming Is Still Going Strong -- and Now You're Paying for It

Welcome to subprime swindle 2.0: the feds' desperate attempt to reinflate the popped housing bubble.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet

There's No Ammo on the Shelves -- Is It the Gun Nuts' Fear of Obama-lypse?

A trip to the L.A. exurb and desert city of Victorville tells you all you need to know about why it's so hard to buy ammunition these days.
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering America

The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.
Posted on Apr 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Rick Santelli 'Tea Party' Controversy: Article Kicks Up a Media Dust Storm

Debate heats up: How much are Rick Santelli and the Tea Party protests he inspired part of a project orchestrated by right-wing groups?
Posted on Mar 3, 2009, Source: eXiled Online

Is CNN Getting Kicked Out of Russia?

Putin may strip CNN of its Russian broadcasting rights after it refused to air a 30 minute exclusive interview he gave the network.
Posted on Sep 12, 2008, Source: eXiled Online