Captain Pete, as everyone in town calls him, has been an oysterman
nearly his entire life. He started as a boy, learning the trade from
his father, who had learned it from his father. ...
>>>> The Nation: Jul 26, 2010
It’s Saturday night in New Orleans, one night before HBO’s
Treme concludes its first season on the air, and, as the theme
song goes, down in the Treme neighborhood we’re all going crazy, buck
jumping and having fun.
>>>> Vanity Fair: Jun 21, 2010
On the night her world changed forever, Rashida Bee was 28 years old and
had already been married for more than half of her life. Her parents,
traditional Muslims, had selected her husband for her when she was 13.
The couple lived together in Bee's parents' modest home in the
industrial city of Bhopal, in central India.
>>>> The Nation: Jun 8, 2010
As Barack Obama arrives in Louisiana Friday for his second visit since
the BP oil disaster, he faces a defining moment in his presidency.
Already, the gusher ranks as the worst environmental catastrophe in
American history, and it happened, as Obama says, on his watch.
>>>> The Nation: May 27, 2010 » More articles
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Nation Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard sits down with GRITtv's Laura Flanders to talk about the environmental movement and the current climate legislation. (more) Apr 21, 2010 I won't say I predicted it, but I had a hunch that Tuesday's U.S.
Senate election in Massachusetts might go badly for the Democrats and
the White House. (more) Jan 21, 2010 We have entered the post-Copenhagen era of climate politics—but just what that means is still very much undecided. The summit was widely regarded as humanity's last good chance to prevent catastrophic climate change. It plainly fell short of that goal ... (more) Jan 12, 2010
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Called "one of America’s finest reporters" by Barbara
Ehrenreich, Mark Hertsgaard is the author of six books that have
been translated into sixteen languages, including
Earth Odyssey
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On Bended Knee.
He has covered climate change, politics and the media for
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Benvenuti nell'era del Tough Oil, del "petrolio difficile".
Come ha dichiarato il 15 giugno scorso dallo Studio Ovale il presidente
Barack Obama in un discorso sorprendemente poco brillante, la falla del
pozzo petrolifero a eruzione spontanea della BP è il
pià grande disastro ambientale della storia degli Stati Uniti.
L'espresso: 25.06.2010
Guardatevi bene dai sondaggi di opinione e da quanti li richiamano. Mark
Twain una volta ha detto una cosa meravigliosa e cioè che ci
sono tre tipi di bugie: le bugie, le bugie dannate e le statistiche. A
queste avrebbe potuto facilmente aggiungere i sondaggi. Molto spesso i
sostenitori dei politici e i media usano i sondaggi per 'provare' che
l'opinione pubblica ha un certo punto di vista, anche quando la
verità è molto pià complessa se
non addirittura all'opposto
L'espresso: 23.04.2010 » More foreign articles
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