In the 1976 film “Network,” a news anchor, played by the late actor Peter Finch, urges his television audience to open their windows and shout the infamous phrase, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” According to people I’ve talked to on the ground in Oregon, that may be something close to what many residents …
Why on Earth Did the Feds Approve a High-Pressure Gas Pipeline Near a Nuke Plant?
A gas explosion leveled two buildings in New York’s East Village this past week, with two neighboring structures damaged, one still at risk for collapse, and 22 people injured, four of them severely. The fire raged from early afternoon into the next morning with more than 250 firefighters responding. Just over a year ago, a gas explosion leveled two buildings …
Connect The Dots – How Fast Tracked Trade Deals Aim to Change Our Food Landscape Forever (And Not in a Good Way) – 03.25.15
Interview with Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Director, International Strategies at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) about how trade deals rubber stamped via Fast Track will harm food and agriculture and degrade food choice.
Connect The Dots – A Gas Pipeline Close to A Nuclear Power Reactor: What Could Go Wrong? – 03.17.15
Interview with Susan van Dolsen, co-founder of SAPE2016 and scientific researcher, Courtney Williams, about the risks of the Algonquin Pipeline.
Connect The Dots – The Threat to Privacy and Democracy in the Technological Age – 03.11.15
Interview with Robert Scheer, leading journalist, editor of the on-line news site, Truth Dig, and the author of They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy