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Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Another oil spill, fracking fuels climate change, Mueller investigates Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and more.
The risky business of government-run pipelines
The project has always been about business – and this is something the Canadian government must quickly recognize if it’s going to create value for Canadians.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, June 21, 2018
Trump signs executive order halting family separation policy he created
President Trump signed an executive order halting what has become a notorious family separation policy...
Why it matters if fracking companies are overestimating their ‘proved’ oil...
“We don't know what we're doing.”
Flip This Well: How fracking company CEOs get rich while losing...
Even when shale oil CEOs do fall, and wipe out billions in other people’s money, their falls seem to be cushioned with more cash.
Trump administration to auction off public land in Northern Arizona to...
"This is Trump's energy dominance policy at work, where nothing matters except fossil-fuel interests."
What 30 years of documents show Shell knew about climate science
Despite such fence-sitting over the science, the company knows action is necessary, which makes Shell's continued huge investments in fossil fuels for the next two decades all the more intriguing.
How Wall Street enabled the fracking ‘revolution’ that’s losing billions
Imagine begging banks to stop loaning you money. And being ignored.
GOP tax law bails out fracking companies buried in debt
“You all just got a lot richer.”
HSBC will no longer fund fossil fuel industry
HSBC is among other banks, such as BNP Paribas, to take such critical action against climate change.
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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.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
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.