Some people wonder why I’ve shown so much interest — almost 30 posts to date — in the 16-year-old lawsuit Chevron Corporation has been battling in Ecuador. Aside from the fact that Chevron stands to lose as much as $27 billion if an Ecuadoran judge rules in favor of the plaintiff, part of my interest [...]
Report Bolsters Support for Chevron in Ecuador
January 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Iranian Doctor: ‘There are people drowning in Iran’
December 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: Originally posted yesterday at Gaze of a Nation, I share it with readers today, unedited, due to the time-sensitive nature of its content. By Arash Hejazi, M.D. Guest Blogger Hundreds of newspapers have been shut down in Iran; international reporters have been banned; hundreds of Iranian journalists are in prison; internet has almost [...]
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Treatment of Climate Change E-mail Scandal-ous
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
First, a BBC News headline reported, Hackers target leading climate research unit. Ten days later, a new headline from the stodgy-and-liberal media outlet reads, Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. What’s wrong with those headlines? They focus on something far less important than the fact that the e-mails exchanged between researchers at the UK’s East Anglia [...]
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Christians Released From Iranian Prison After 259 Days, Refused to Denounce Christian Faith
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Voice of the Martyrs‘ friend, Elam Ministries, which serves the growing church in Iran, announced today via this news release that Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh have been released from Evin Prison in Tehran. Family members picked them up at the prison this afternoon, Iran time. More from the release appears below: The two women [...]
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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]
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Question: ‘Why Didn’t Voters Pay Attention?’
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments
“Why didn’t voters pay attention?” is a question I asked myself after taking a fresh look at “Foster Friess on Barack Obama: Rhetoric vs. Record”, a video which first appeared in a post on this blog Oct. 28, 2008. Narrator Foster Friess, a successful businessman and Army veteran living in Jackson Hole, Wyo., begins by [...]
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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Oct. 12, 2009
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments
“Acronym” is Uncle Jay’s word of the week, and he employs them frequently while covering a wide range of topics (below) in this week’s edition of Uncle Jay Explains the News: NASA blew up the moon; Miley Cyrus decided to dump her Twitter page in order to regain some of her privacy — and then [...]
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