News reports of the Deep Impact space probe’s explosive Independence Day rendezvous with a comet could not have made clearer that the whole affair was barely-disguised patriotic propaganda, very convenient at a time when the Iraq war is turning into… Read moreDeep Impact: “science” as propaganda
As we noted yesterday, reportage on the oil market jittters sparked by the Iran elections included a quote from one analyst predicting an imminent rise to $100 a barrel. This ominous figure is being heard more and more. The Wall… Read more“Peak oil” hits mainstream
A friend writes from Philadelphia, scene of the recent anti-biotech protests (where, as we noted, a police officer died of a heart attack): Please donate bail money! A dozen or so protesters were arrested at the Biodevestation protests in Philadelphia… Read moreBiodevastation protesters need help
The Inuit of Alaska and Canada’s far north, whose traditional way of life depends on hunting seals and polar bearāand therefore on coldāare not so sanguine about global warming. Thanks to TruthOut for passing on this interesting June 16 Reuters… Read moreInuit to file petition against US on climate change
Jonathan Bennett of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) sends the following observations on follow-up coverage of revleations the Bush White House altered science on global climate change: Go figure. Two days after the Times reports… Read moreQuiet exit for White House science-cooker
Kudos to TruthOut for pairing these two gems from the UK Guardian and the NY Times: Revealed: How Oil Giant Influenced Bush by John Vidal The Guardian Wednesday 08 June 2005 White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance…. Read moreExxon shaped Bush Kyoto policy
The UN conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has closed with little accomplished in the way of new ways to enforce the fast-unravelling treaty. A May 28 report in the LA Times notes: The United States tried to keep the… Read moreNPT conference ends in discord
The US defended itself May 20 against charges from states without nuclear weapons that it is failing to fulfill its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). At a month-long conference reviewing the NPT, non-nuclear states dismissed U.S. diplomats’ recitation… Read moreNon-nuclear states challenge US on proliferation
The “peak oil” phenomenon, which has so far received more serious treatment in the foreign press than here in the USA, is starting to break through to the mainstream–at least among the business media. On May 4, Bloomberg.com opinion columnist… Read moreAre you ready for $100/barrel oil?
Reviving a perennial theme of the reigning energy oligarchs, President Bush told the National Small Business Week Conference in DC April 27 that more nuclear plants are the answer to rising oil costs. “We’ve got a fundamental question we got… Read moreBush: Yes nukes!
Well, it seems workers are battling to contain a large spill of crude-contaminated waterā111,300 gallonsāat ConocoPhillips’ Kuparuk oil filed on Alaska’s North Slope. State officials are concerned about impacts on the fragile tundra environment. How ironic that this comes days… Read moreOil spill on Alaska’s North Slope
Resorting to the sleazy tactic of burying the measure in a budget package to head off a Democratic fillibuster, Senate Republicans passed a major hurdle in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploitation. By a single vote,… Read moreSenate stooges of petro-oligarchy shaft the caribou
