When a drought dried up their wells last year, hundreds of farmers and their families flocked to local fairgrounds here to pray for rain, and a call went out on the regional radio station imploring South Africans to donate bottled water. Covering much of the roughly 800 miles between Johannesburg …
Learn the truth about the many dangers of hydraulic fracturing in this DEC Hearing at the Rally Against Fracking in New York City, October 8th, 2011.
“My Water’s On Fire Tonight” is a product of Studio 20 NYU (http://bit.ly/hzGRYP) in collaboration with ProPublica.org (http://bit.ly/5tJN). The song is based on ProPublica’s investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling (read the full investigation here: http://bit.ly/15sib6). Music by David Holmes and Andrew Bean Vocals and Lyrics by David Holmes and …
First half hour: BREAKING NEWS: Tonight, in real time, we hear the heartbreaking story of how a group of working class families, residents of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania are being evicted from their homes to make way for for a proposed water withdrawal facility in Piatt Township. The …
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Gary gives commentary on vaccines, hydrofracking, and 5 countries that could see war. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (14.2MB) | Embed
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Fracking: The New Global Water Crisis Within the past decade, technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” have enabled the oil and gas industry to extract large quantities of oil and natural gas from shale formations in the United States. However, the practice has proven controversial. Pollution …
As President Obama continues to hammer on natural gas as a “bridge fuel” (to a “renewable future”), Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest features a conversation on the subject of “safe hydrofracking.” Daniel J. Weiss, of the Center for American Progress argues that hydraulic fracturing can be made safe with proper …
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A profile of billionaire natural gas tycoon, Aubrey McClendon, by Rolling Stone‘s Jeff Goodell is out today and it paints a frightening, if not complex, picture of one of the men profiting most from the nation’s insatiable appetite for fossil fuels. Speaking to Goodell over a $100 glass of Bordeaux, McClendon, who is …
Civil Liberties Bill of Rights Defense Committee Against the National Defense Authorization Act - info, links and more Petition: Americans united against oppressive military detention powers Petition: Military service members against oppressive military detention powers Anti-Hydrofracking Activism: Frack Action: http://frackaction.com/ Delaware Riverkeeper: http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/ Earthjustice: http://earthjustice.org/ Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project:http://www.earthworksaction.org/oil_and_gas.cfm Natural Resources Defense Council: http://www.nrdc.org/default_t2.asp The Endocrine …
On this week’s Connect the Dots, Alison Rose Levy speaks with Greg Palast, the briliant investigative journalist and author of the new book, Vulture’s Picnic. Greg’s new evidence that all the way from the Exxon Valdez incident up through the 2010 Deep Water Horizon explosion and into the present, when fracking contaminates …
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by Gary NullProgressive Radio Network, February 13, 2012 One of the most famous examples of journalist integrity, that has served as exemplar of how journalism can correct wrongs and bring justice to bear, is the story of Emile Zola – a French naturalist writer and supporter of political liberalization in …
In lieu of a guest, Gary discusses health, nutrition, fracking, and takes your calls. Download this episode (right click and save) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (14.1MB) | Embed
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RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Reinstate The Glass-Steagall Act. Ban trading in commodities that are necessary to life: Food, land, and water. Stop trading in credit default swaps and derivatives. Stop the Federal Reserve from giving any more no-interest loans to banks and corporations. Declare a …
This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without it. New York is what you might call a “water state.” Its rivers and their tributaries only start with the St. Lawrence, the Hudson, …
As of the writing of this Newsletter, the topics of today’s show are certain but the participants still in formation. The topics will be the latest in hydro-fracking–that earthquakes have been very reasonably linked to fracking activity in several different states and countries–and this is all the more reason …
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