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Showing videos filed under: oil
The F Word: Is BP Too Big To Fail?
May 3, 2011Now to the opposite of cuts. Over a year after the biggest oil spill in US history and even as criminal investigations continue, BP is still receiving millions of dollars in government contracts.Antonia Juhasz: Oil Companies Profit, American Consumers Suffer
April 28, 2011"What has translated into a change in price for oil and gas has simply been a result of the greed of the oil industry," says author and GRITtv oil correspondent, Antonia Juhasz of rising oil prices and pain at the pump around the country. Antonia is the director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, and author of the newly released book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.Antonia Juhasz, Walter Mosley, and the Royal Wedding
April 27, 2011"What has translated into a change in price for oil and gas has simply been a result of the greed of the oil industry," says author and GRITtv oil correspondent, Antonia Juhasz of rising oil prices and pain at the pump. Antonia is the director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, and author of the newly released book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.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.Mark Hertsgaard: Surviving Generation Hot
April 22, 2011Global climate change isn't an if anymore, it's a when, according to journalist Mark Hertsgaard. The planet is going to get warmer, and Hertsgaard says that only the "climate crooks and climate cranks" are still in the denial business. But legislation is stalled in Congress because those very same crooks control the purse strings of the politicians who make the decisions.Remembering Tim Hetherington, and Mark Hertsgaard on Generation Hot
April 21, 2011Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was a guest on GRITtv recently to discuss his Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo, which he made while embedded with a troop of soldiers in Afghanistan. He spoke candidly with us about the dangers of reporting on war.Mike Papantonio: One Year Later, BP's Still Avoiding Responsibility
April 21, 2011"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.Mike Papantonio, Maude Barlow & Shannon Biggs, and Investing at Home
April 20, 2011"BP has gotten away with this, the government has helped them get away with it, we can't even get cooperation from the government to test the carcasses of dead mammals washing up on the shore because they're joined at the hip with BP," says Mike Papantonio, radio host and attorney representing Gulf Coast residents.Shannon Biggs & Maude Barlow: Recognizing the Rights of Nature
April 20, 2011"The real issue here is that modern humanity looks at nature as a great big resource for our pleasure, profit and convenience, and we do whatever we want with it. We're in trouble," says Maude Barlow of our current relationship with the our natural world. She and Shannon Biggs have spearheaded the discussion over the legal rights of nature, a discussion that has gone all the way to United Nations, where arguments are now being heard.
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