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Showing videos filed under: drill baby drill
Thomas Frank, Gioconda Belli, and Oil Gouging
April 26, 2011"This is what's interesting in Wisconsin: I think that the Right may have picked a fight they can't win rhetorically," says Thomas Frank, who visited Wisconsin during the heat of the union battles this winter. He notes that Wisconsin was historically one of the most liberal states in the country, and the labor-liberal base there is fired up and ready to fight back.The F Word: Oil Prices: Gouge Us Baby One More Time
April 26, 2011Gas prices have been edging up since February, reaching $4 a gallon this Easter, and Republicans are gearing up to make a stink about it. To blame Democrats, that is, for setting things up this way.Lizz Winstead & W. Kamau Bell: Media Responsibility
May 28, 2010The ongoing disaster in the Gulf, millions of barrels of oil now reaching shores and killing wildlife, might seem to have little in common with the struggle for comprehensive immigration reform. But one of the threads that connects the two is misleading media coverage. BP was able to control and spin their coverage, perhaps aided by their liberal advertising budgets, and meanwhile discussions of immigration and racial issues in general are constantly framed as a debate over whether racism is involved.Maya Wiley, W. Kamau Bell & Lizz Winstead and Haiti
May 27, 2010The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has now, according to new estimates, become the nation's biggest oil spill in history. Yet instead of deploying help to the Gulf, President Obama is sending troops to the U.S./Mexico border. As Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion notes, it's an election year, and that means it's pandering time.Greenpeace: Deepwater Disaster Blues
May 26, 2010"This is my backyard, you shouldn't take a risk in it," says Troy Wetzel, Louisiana charter boat captain, to conservationist Rick Steiner of the BP oil spill. In this clip from our friends at Greenpeace, Wetzel takes Steiner out on his boat to see the immediate effects on the water and the community of the oil that continues, over a month in, to gush out into the Gulf of Mexico.Arun Gupta, Barry Eisler, and Deepwater Disaster Blues
May 25, 2010It's become common to hear that the Republicans are just "the party of No," with no ideas beyond obstructing the Democratic agenda. But Arun Gupta of the Indypendent has a new piece out at Truthout.org where he questions that view.Monique Harden: Clean Up More Than Just The Spill
May 4, 2010President Obama headed to Louisiana this weekend to check out the worsening environmental disaster caused by the BP oil spill, and reiterated that BP will have to pay for the cleanup. But, Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights notes, we need to clean up more than just this oil spill--we need to clean up our energy policy.Monique Harden, John Fugelsang & Hari Kondabolu, and May Day
May 3, 2010President Obama headed to Louisiana this weekend to check out the worsening environmental disaster caused by the BP oil spill, and reiterated that BP will have to pay for the cleanup. But, Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights notes, we need to clean up more than just this oil spill--we need to clean up our energy policy.David Roberts: Drill, Baby, Drill
April 2, 2010The announcement this week that Barack Obama would open up space along the Atlantic coast for offshore oil drilling wasn't a cruel April Fool's joke, sadly. The president who pledged not to "drill, baby, drill" our way out of energy and climate issues seems to be going back on his word.Drill, Baby, Drill, Palestine Land Day, and the iPad
April 1, 2010The announcement this week that Barack Obama would open up space along the Atlantic coast for offshore oil drilling wasn't a cruel April Fool's joke, sadly. The president who pledged not to "drill, baby, drill" our way out of energy and climate issues seems to be going back on his word.
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