Category: Politics

Mr. Buffett’s Coal Train
by Rick Bass | Nov 1, 2013 | EnvironmentI grew up as an oil geologist, worked in Mississippi and Alabama for several years, so it’s not with the sometimes-reflexive reaction of a typical treehugger that I report from Montana with the news that the future of the world may well depend upon obscure and little-known events that are taking place in wild […]

More Carbon than Keystone
by Lou Dubose | Nov 1, 2013 | EnvironmentBellingham, Washington At dusk on a warm Wednesday afternoon in September, a Lummi couple in their sixties had just finished picking kelp out of a gill net they had stretched out into Bellingham Bay. The wind was calm and the water so clear that every stone on the bottom was visible. The incoming […]

America’s Berlin Wall
by Geoff Rips | Oct 31, 2013 | Politics(Hope Park, Brownsville | Source: Scott Nicol) Brownsville, Texas Highway 281 hugs the Rio Grande as it twists and turns its last few miles before heading into Brownsville at the southernmost tip of Texas. As you pass small towns with histories dating back almost three centuries, some serving as river crossings long before the Europeans […]
Millions Are Losing Their Insurance Policies (They’re Given New and Better Ones Instead)
by Peter Hart | Oct 30, 2013 | PoliticsOn his October 25 show, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told viewers, “The Factor has established itself as the go-to news program if you want the facts about Obamacare.” And then he proceeded to show that this wasn’t true: Millions of Americans want facts, not crazy political fanaticism, and we are here to give […]
In Memory of Doug Ireland
by John S. Friedman | Oct 29, 2013 | PoliticsI first met Doug at The Soho Weekly News office in June 1981 where he was an editor and I was proposing an article. I was greeted by a portly man with a baby face that I later learned masked maturity. He made a wry comment followed by a warm, half-smile. “Barkis is willing,” he […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety
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