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BP Used Oil Industry Tax Break to Write Off Its Rent for Deepwater Rig
Transocean, the company that owns the failed Deepwater Horizon rig that caused the Gulf oil spill, used well-known tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland to lower its …
God’s Not on the Side of Union Busters
God may or may not be on the side of unions, but a Catholic scholars group says that being on the other side, that is being against unions, is …
BP Shows US It’s Time for a New Energy Policy Like Europe’s
With toxic black ooze spreading throughout the Gulf of Mexico, it is time for the Obama administration to think seriously about national energy policy. They could learn plenty by …
Twenty-Four Hours in a Haitian Camp
It is 2:00 PM in what used to be the neighborhood of Croix des Prez in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After the “catastrophe” of January 12, 2010, it became Camp Croix …
Locked Out: The 12 million People Without a Country, and Their Need to Become a Citizen
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic—Until she graduated from high school, Sonia Camilise never had reason to question her nationality. She was born here in the Dominican Republic and grew up …
Fending for Themselves
We drive south on Louisiana Highway 55 towards Pointe-au-Chien. The two-lane road hugs a bayou, like most of the roads leading south into the marsh areas. Incredibly green, lush …
Judges Rule Obama Can’t Close Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump
Washington - Democratic Rep. John Spratt and Republican Rep. Joe Wilson don't agree on much, yet the South Carolina congressmen are cheering a new ruling that denied the bid …
Ridiculous America
I worked five shifts at the bar between Saturday and Saturday this week, and saw some things that really got me thinking about the nature of this nation. I …
This Fourth of July, Celebrate “1776” – the Movie (2)
As we commemorate the Fourth of July, one of the joys — and there are many — of life in these United States is that you never know what …
Why Did It Take a Rock Magazine to Report the Military’s Total Disaster in Afghanistan?
The controversial Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal didn't just expose poor judgment on the part of the U.S. military's key leader in Afghanistan. It also illustrates one …