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Japan was hit by a terrible earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. continue reading...

Here is CBS’ 60 Minutes piece on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which has gone on to become the largest environmental disaster in US history.  Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, owned by Transocean and leased to BP, the ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig suffered an explosion on April 20, 2010 and the ensuing oil spill has gone on for over a month.

Worth noting just how much the US consumes oil each year to put the size of the oil spill into context, according to this article (published May 31 2010): continue reading...

You gotta give the Republicans credit for not going down without a fight.  They are basically attaching Obama now for having the EXACT position as John McCain, look:

WTF? continue reading...

From The Nation:

Myth 1. It’s a dangerous world. We face an array of serious national security threats that require an experienced Commander in Chief. continue reading...

Russia’s naval fleet is lining up alongside Syrian waters, to both defend Syria and block off any Israeli jets flying towards Iran.  More here and here, via WRH:

The Russians are making clear their intentions of using the large Russian naval presence in Tartus as a deterrent to Israeli air strikes against Syria using the powerful anti-air missiles on-board the Russian naval warships. These missile systems can sweep the sky over most of Syria and knock down Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighters. This changes the balance of power in the air over Syria. continue reading...

Washington Post’s latest article takes Governor Palin to task for inflating Alaska - and her own - contribution to the US’ energy landscape.

The woman touted by John McCain as the most knowledgeable person in America on energy issues has been having a lot of trouble getting her basic energy statistics straight. Last week, Sarah Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News that her state, Alaska, produced “nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy.” On Monday, she told a campaign rally in Golden, Colo., that she had been responsible for overseeing “nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas.” Both claims are way off. continue reading...

“It’s a campaign now built on turning everything possible into a cultural wedge issue — including even energy policy, no matter how stupid it makes the voters and no matter how much it might weaken America.”

Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.” continue reading...

Unlike the onset of the Iraq war where mainstream media was muzzled out of fear of being perceived as non-patriotic, 2008 will be remembered for the year that all reputable news sources came out and highlighted the fact that Sarah Palin was a sham, full of hot air, and whose mere proximity to the White House could be disastrous (after all, the top of the ticket, John McCain admits to being clueless about the economy).

The problem?  America has enough people who don’t exactly read Time or WSJ etc., and who are too busy listening to wackos like Palin on Sundays. continue reading...

In what can only be described as a direct response to America helping Georgia (a country about half the way around the world), Russia will now be aiding Iran even more (a country that sits firmly below it on a map).

America’s misguided imperialistic zeal and delusions of remaining grandeur and might will now open a new war - hot or cold - it will not be able to win. continue reading...