Leave it to the tar sands industry-- including CEO Rick George of Suncor (partners with the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Pembina Institute) to find a way to spin the disaster in the Gulf as a good thing for the tar sands players. Yuck. These people simply do not have any morals or scruples and know no limits to their depths (so let's partner up with them!).

--M

I am on record as believing that the de-industrialization of our agriculture is both wise and inevitable - I do not believe we will have the wealth, the energy resources or the ability to absorb the outputs of our present agricultural model over the long term, and that because such a transition is necessary, we'd be better off doing it sooner than later, and more gradually than not.

<p>In August 2007, Alexandra Svoboda was among a group of Providence, Rhode Island-based IWW members who marched up Mineral Spring Avenue in North ...

BP has managed to seal the smallest of the three
leaks spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the company says.

Oil
is still gushing into the sea at a rate of about 800,000 litres a day,
but officials say working with only two leaks makes tackling the spill
easier.

St. Paul, MN - Today, the Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR) with co-counsel De Leon & Nestor and Weil, Gotshal
& Manges LLP, filed a federal lawsuit against the
Minneapolis and St.

Millions of homeowners face losing their homes in the continuing foreclosure crisis, but homeowners often have more than the struggling economy and slumping house prices to worry about: Disorganization within the big banks that service mortgages has made a bad problem worse.

The Kyrgyz popular insurrection is a magnificent example of what the oppressed are capable of in overthrowing an autocracy. It has broken down one of the doors blocking social transformation. It has rendered more fragile private ownership of the means of production by putting pressure on the most significant swindlers at the moment — the Bakiyev family. It is both enormous and insufficient.