Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
James Petras ‘The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to the destruction of infrastructure . . . especially in the provinces of Oden, Dhalea and Taiz.’ - Izzedine al-Asbali, Yemeni Human Rights Minister ‘Yemen is devastated.… more »
Gov. Brown Exempts Water-Intensive Fracking From Emergency Water Restrictions
Posted on April 8, 2015 by State of the Nation In Dry California, Thirsty Oil and Big-Ag Industries Exempt from Water Regulations Despite historic drought, Governor Jerry Brown has not put restrictions on oil drilling and fracking, but is focusing on… more »
Californians Outraged As Oil Producers & Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/03/2015 23:10 -0400 Reuters inShare10 California's oil and gas industry is estimated (with official data due to be released in coming days) to use more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day; so it is hardly… more »
Fracking - Suicide Capitalism Poisons The Earth's Fresh Water Supplies
By Dylan Murphy Lena Headley lives in in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She and her husband bought a small farm for their semi-retirement with the mineral rights but not the oil and gas rights. Over the last seven years 5 gas wells and a transmission… more »
The Decline of the US (and Everyone Else …)
James Petras The world political economy is a mosaic of cross currents: Domestic decay and elite enrichment, new sources for greater profits and deepening political disenchantment, declining living standards for many and extravagant luxury for a few,… more »
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The Feds Knew: 50 years of fracking-induced earthquakes
By Rady Ananda Washington's Blog posted some info last August confirming that the US federal government has long known of the link between fracking and earthquakes, as well as the link between deep well fluids contaminating shallow drinking wells. As… more »
Fracking the life out of Arkansas and beyond
By Rady Ananda (Updated below.) The last four months of 2010, nearly 500 earthquakes rattled Guy, Arkansas. [1] The entire state experienced 38 quakes in 2009. [2] The spike in quake frequency precedes and coincides with the 100,000 dead fish on a… more »
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