Tag: Dakota Access Pipeline
Media silence after water protectors and police clash on MLK Day
On MLKDay 2017 water protectors were shot at and tear gassed once again by law enforcement in riot gear.
Battle against the Bayou Bridge pipeline threatens to become the Standing...
While Energy Transfer Partners representatives have touted the pipeline as a boon for Louisiana’s economy, its permit application indicates that it will create only 12 new permanent jobs.
North Dakota bill would let motorists ‘unintentionally cause injury or death’...
“It’s shocking to see legislation that allows for people to literally be killed for exercising their right to protest in a public space.”
Governor of North Dakota: When Trump is president DAPL ‘will get...
“I support the legal completion of this pipeline. Make no mistake, this infrastructure is good for our economy. And it's the safest way to transport North Dakota products."
Standing Rock and the return of the nonviolent campaign
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.
Resistance at Standing Rock: The people from Oceti Sakowin camp
Water protectors answer a fundamental question: What happens if the pipeline gets completed?
The worst pipeline spills in the last 10 years
Pipeline accidents happen and they are multi-million dollar investment projects which further lock us into years, even decades, of fossil fuel extraction and emissions.
From Standing Rock to the world: 10 indigenous struggles – and...
Whom to call, what to donate, and where to show up.
Why I answered the call for veterans to go to Standing...
At Standing Rock, for the first time, I felt like I was finally serving the people.
20 photos: My seven months of living at Standing Rock
The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.