Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MSNBC said late Friday that the cable network and host Keith Olbermann “have ended their contract,” and that his show “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” will no longer appear on the network after the current broadcast. Obama FCC Approves Disastrous Takeover of NBC by…
Daily Archives: January 21, 2011
Blackbird Die-Offs: Another Silent Spring?
Could the BP Oil Gusher in the Gulf Be to Blame? “The sedge is wither’d from the lake, and no birds sing.” – John Keats, “La Belle Dame sans Merci” The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson When natural history writer Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, she was violently assailed by threats of lawsuits…
GOP Budget Plan a Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Rich, Corporations
Millionaire Gain, Middle-Class Pain If new House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) gets everything on his budget-cutting wish list, it would be, says a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, “a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to wealthy Americans and corporations and a wholesale dismantling of the social programs…
Environmental Groups Take Rosa Coal Mine Fight to Court of Appeals
Glynn Wilson Two Alabama environmental groups are appealing an administrative law judge’s approval of a permit for a massive strip, auger and underground coal mine in Blount County, Alabama. The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Friends of the Locust Fork River, filed the necessary papers this week with…
