Robert Scheer, Truthdig. July 4, 2008. This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.
David Korten, YES! Magazine. June 27, 2008. In a time when the old order is shattering a global movement is emerging to challenge the use of war as a tool of statecraft.
David Korten, YES! Magazine. June 27, 2008. In a time when the old order is shattering, a global movement is emerging to challenge the use of war as a tool of statecraft.
Thomas Palley, Project Syndicate. June 27, 2008. The scale of the oil price spike exceeds normal demand and supply factors, pointing to the role of speculation.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. June 26, 2008. The PET plastic bottles used for bottled water can all be traced back the world's biggest oil giants.
Harvey Wasserman, Huffington Post. June 26, 2008. Republicans are funneling billions into the coffers of their oil baron backers; it's no surprise Bush and McCain aren't pushing for renewable energy.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 25, 2008. If Iraq's main product had been video games, the media might have been quicker to ask tough questions about the war's effects on our kids' lives.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. June 24, 2008. Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves -- all we need to do is extract it.
Michael T. Klare, The Nation. June 21, 2008. Oil companies, speculators and OPEC played their part, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the crisis.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 19, 2008. Scientists acknowledge an uncomfortable fact long ignored by the media: global warming is the real cause of extreme weather like the Midwest floods.
Riki Ott, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 18, 2008. Author Riki Ott tells the extraordinary tale of the people who took on the world's richest oil companies to protect Prince William Sound.
Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Environment. June 11, 2008. Conservatives filibuster to protect hedge fund managers and give renewable energy the shaft.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. June 11, 2008. Americans do need to cut down on their resource consumption. But the key variable in the high cost of oil is Bush's failed foreign policy.
