Popeye McCain, Exxon Packs Court, Smelly Penguins at risk, Row Roz Row and more
By David Helvarg / Blue Notes #47 / July 8, 2008 McCain channels Popeye, announces — “Oil’s Well” If you…
Category: Energy
Posted in: Election, Energy, Environment
Tagged: John McCain
Japanese fishermen stage massive one-day strike to protest high fuel prices
Staff July 15, 2008 1 Comment on Japanese fishermen stage massive one-day strike to protest high fuel prices
By Jay Alabaster / Associated Press / July 14, 2008 TOKYO (AP) _ Fishermen across Japan went on a massive…
It’s the Oil, stupid!
By Noam Chomsky / July 8, 2008 The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil…
Posted in: Energy, War and Peace
Tagged: BP
Floridians Demostrate Against High Price of Gas
Protest is part of MoveOn.org’s National Day of Action NAPLES, FL. A couple dozen Southwest Florida residents lined the sidewalk…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Energy, Organizing
While American Consumers Grumble About Fuel Costs, the Rest of the World Protests
Staff July 9, 2008 0 Comments on While American Consumers Grumble About Fuel Costs, the Rest of the World Protests
Protests against high fuel costs in other parts of the world have not gone away. Mainstream media continue to ignore,…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Energy, Labor, Organizing, World News
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive ALSO: See Update at end of this article by Aditya…
Posted in: Energy, Environment, World News
Trucker Protests in France Over High Fuel Prices Cause Traffic Havoc
Staff June 30, 2008 0 Comments on Trucker Protests in France Over High Fuel Prices Cause Traffic Havoc
June 30, 2008 PARIS (AP) – Truck drivers protesting soaring fuel prices have slowed highway traffic outside Paris and other…
Posted in: Energy, Labor, Organizing
It Takes Kids to Protest High Cost of Gas (and Cable TV)
SALT LAKE CITY – Sadie and Pyper Vance have had just about enough of high gas prices. The sisters are…
Posted in: Energy, Organizing
Living on the Ice Shelf – Humanity’s Meltdown
By Mike Davis 1. Farewell to the Holocene Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last…
Posted in: Energy, Environment
Status Quo-oh
Second half of 2008 “…we could find ourselves not only a nation wet, hungry, and out-of-gas, but also completely broke”…
Posted in: Election, Energy, Environment
Democrats Agree to Expand Domestic Spying, Grant Telecoms Amnesty
By Ryan Singel / June 19, 2008 Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Energy, Media
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