Amid soaring concerns about the health and environmental impacts of the U.S. fracking boom, federal regulators are failing to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells they have deemed high-risk, according to the government’s own report released Monday. Click Here: New Zealand rugby store According to the Government Accountability Office, the Bureau of Land Management—an Read more about Feds Failing to Inspect Thousands of Oil and Gas Wells: Report[…]

Global teams of Greenpeace environmental campaigners have simultaneously staged direct actions to block two separate oil rigs headed to drill in the Arctic, the group announced Tuesday. Early on Tuesday, 30 people occupied a rig owned by Russian energy company Gazprom while it sat in the Dutch port of Ijmuiden. According to Greenpeace, after five Read more about Direct Actions at Sea Target Drilling Rigs Headed for Arctic[…]

Five U.S. Special Operation soldiers and at least one Afghan soldier were killed in southern Afghanistan late Monday when an errant airstrike struck their position during a skirmish with Taliban forces. As the New York Times reports: According to government statistics, 2,323 U.S. soldiers have died since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Once confirmed, Read more about Five US Soldiers Killed in US Airstrike in Afghanistan[…]

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F1’s outgoing chief executive Chase Carey says next year’s calendar will look “pretty close to normal” after this year’s disrupted schedule. The onslaught of the global COVID-19 pandemic brought the sporting world, including F1, to a standstill last spring, forcing Liberty Media to cancel the first ten races of the 2020 season and rebuild an Read more about Carey anticipates ‘pretty normal’ 2021 F1 calendar[…]

Less than a week after receiving news that the Obama administration had approved the sale of a fleet of U.S. Apache attack helicopters to Egypt, uproar is following a pair of court decisions Monday that critics say reveal the military-controlled government’s vicious attack on human rights and democratic values. “These sentences are aimed at striking Read more about Blessed by US, Egypt's Assault on Human Rights in Overdrive[…]

Agrarian strikes, protests, and road blockades are sweeping Colombia this week as peasants voice outrage at the “free trade” policies, backed by the Colombian government, that they say are exacerbating the country’s crisis of rural poverty. “The countryside has been abandoned by the state in favor of big companies,” Jimmy Torres of Conciencia Campesina in Read more about Agrarian Uprising Against Free Trade and 'Government Lies' Sweeps Colombia[…]

Wikileaks stated Friday that, in addition to the Bahamas, the United States is tracking and recording all mobile phone calls within the country Afghanistan. In making the announcement, the publication claimed to be shedding light on information redacted by journalists at The Intercept who reported earlier this week on the existence of far-reaching NSA surveillance Read more about Wikileaks Reveals Identity of 'Country X': Afghanistan[…]

President Obama will officially announce new EPA regulations on Monday designed to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2030, according to leaked details of the plan in recent days. The executive move is broadly seen as the president’s way to sidestep a divided and obstructionist Read more about Obama Takes Crack at Climate Action[…]

As Brazilians opposed to outrageous sums of public money spent on preparations for the upcoming World Cup protest with marches and strikes, the nation’s government and its police forces are boasting that they have planned for all contingencies ahead of the games, including plans to clamp down on dissent and disruption by establishing “security zones” Read more about Brazil Readies 'RoboCop' Riot Squads for World Cup Protests[…]