John Steiner: Tar Sands Hearings Run by Contractor – Department of State Corrupt, EPA Barred from Engagement, Cheney Still Active

TransCanada Pipeline Foes See U.S. Bias in E-Mails E-mails released Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the environmental group Friends of the Earth paint a picture of a sometimes warm and collaborative relationship between the lobbyist for the pipeline company, Trans-Canada, and officials in the State Department, the agency …

Review: We Meant Well – How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

Peter Van Buren  5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars & Beyond–Open Heart Surgury on a Corrupt Ignorant Government,September 29, 2011 FINAL REVIEW The author himself begins the book with a reference to Dispatches (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) followed by Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition, to which I would add A Rumor of War. …

John Steiner: Dalai Lama et al – Halt Tar Sands Pipeline

Dalai Lama, Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Laureates: Halt tarsands Brenda Norrell The Narcosphere, 8 September 2011 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Laureates Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala and Archbishop Desmund Tutu of South Africa, joined six other Nobel Peace Laureates urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, an environmental disaster in …

Snapshot: Tea Party Headlines

Needed: A Tea Party for smart people Protest Movement Starts ‘Rebranding’ Billionaire Koch Brothers Wall Street Journal Honcho Shills for Secret Worker ‘Education’ Program Linked to Koch Group Jim Hightower column: Academic freedom for sale, cheap, too Letter: Billionaires duped patriotic Americans Koch brothers wage a war on Americans Koch Bros. Accused of Stonewalling Congress …