The blockade depicted in this video is the latest in a series of escalating actions against hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale. Last May, residents of Butler County occupied the office of State Representative Brian...
(Reuters) – First came the diplomatic offensive, then the flexing of military muscle. Now, China is opening a third front to assert its claims in the South China Sea – moving ahead with its first major...
(Reuters) – State oil company CNOOC plans to buy Canadian rival Nexen Inc for $15.1 billion, a deal which if successful would be China’s biggest foreign corporate takeover and a test of Ottawa’s tolerance...
A US ship has fired on a boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, US officials say. The USNS Rappahannock fired on a vessel after it ignored warnings and rapidly approached the...
On the heels of the epic clash over collective bargaining in Wisconsin, labor groups in neighboring Michigan are launching an aggressive bid to erect a force-field around union benefits by enshrining their bargaining “rights”...
(Reuters) – Iran and the United States might be talking up their readiness for war in the Gulf but beneath the rhetoric, all sides appear keen to avoid conflict and prevent accidental escalation – at least...
The House has passed a bill aimed at salvaging 2.8 million jobs and forestalling a sharp increase in interest rates on college loans. The measure, which cleared the House on a 373-52 vote, and...
Gulf of Mexico energy platforms began evacuations as a weather system off the Yucatan Peninsula threatened to grow into a tropical storm over the weekend. There’s a 70 percent chance the cluster of thunderstorms will...
The specter of the 1930s financial crisis that culminated in the rise of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party and the Second World War is stalking Europe. In May 1931, Creditanstalt, founded in Vienna by the Rothschild...
Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist. “As ludicrous as that...
