Our Score Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he…
Month: June 2016
We’re Swimming in Fuel, Why Burn Our Food Supply?
Our Score It’s vacation season – a time when families pack their cars, put their pets in the kennel, and take road trips to the beach and national parks. With gasoline prices at historic lows, motorists will pay less to…
Clinton’s Energy Plan Pits Green Against Green
Our Score Will solar and wind farms take over parks and preserves? Posted at Jun 20, 2016 5:13 PM John Bicknell There is a civil war going on in the environmental movement. No blood will be spilled, but like the…
Clinton and Trump Are Historically Unpopular. Here’s Why
Architects of disastrous Iraq War still at large
Our Score By Neil Clark Bombs going off in Iraq? Well, it happens all the time – what’s there to see? Let’s all move along shall we? On Thursday, at least 13 people were killed in a ISIS attack on…
The Pentagon’s Real Strategy
Our Score By Andrew Cockburn, June 16, 2016 These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington’s military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics of every sort. Senator John McCain thunders that “this…
Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power
Our Score Focus on climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as reliable, carbon-free source of energy Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in…
Exxon attacks Dem AGs in day two of retaliatory court action
Our Score Exxon Mobil asked the Massachusetts Superior Court to bar Attorney General Maura Healey from continuing a probe. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Exxon Mobil went after Democratic attorneys general for a second day on Thursday for targeting the company over…
Silencing America as it prepares for war
Our Score 27 May 2016 John Pilger Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot…