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The Oil Industry Floats on Lies:The True Story of the Exxon Valdez

It wasn’t human error that caused America’s greatest environmental disaster, the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, it was inhuman corporate miserliness — the oil industry’s systemic fraud, corruption, and penny-pinching la-di-da view of safety. In this edition of... READ MORE

The True Cause of the Exxon Valdez CatastropheVultures' Picnic: Chapter 7

Days after the Exxon Valdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives. The true cause of the catastrophe? The breaking of promises made by the oil giant to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in... READ MORE

The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastropheVultures' Picnic: Chapter 7

Days after the Exxon Valdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives. The true cause of the catastrophe? The breaking of promises made by the oil giant to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in the fifteen years leading up to the spill. The full extent of the oil company’s culpability, and the subsequent coverup, is chronicled in Vultures’ Picnic, excerpted here... READ MORE

Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable Of The Drunken Captain

Today, March 24, the 32nd Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster will be commemorated with the re-telling of lies. The official story is, “Drunken Skipper Hits Reef.” Don’t believe it.Days after the oil tanker slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives of Alaska. It was their coastline. This story remains untold: the true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was... READ MORE

Voting Gangnam Style: The Rise of Kim Crow

The Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the hell out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community are the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow. But the vote suppression of the Asian-American community is not... READ MORE

Fukushima: They Knew

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima tsunami and meltdown.A nuclear plant is built with steel and cement and lies and fraud — and that’s the take-a-way for today.Stacey Abrams has shown REAL courage in Georgia in her opposition to the Vogtle nuclear power plant — the last... READ MORE

Piers Moron aka Piers MorganYes, it’s personal

Recidivist criminal, conman, creep, liar… I’m sure you’ve guessed I’m talking about Piers Morgan, the alias of Piers Moron, who's been given a few days off for spewing vicious, inhuman comments about Meghan Markle’s suicidal depression. I say, "a few days off" because... READ MORE

Remembering Bloody Sunday 1965, Selma Alabama

Today we commemorate Bloody Sunday. Linda Blackmon Lowry, the youngest marcher, was beaten so badly by cops on the Pettus Bridge that she was put in a hearse, presumed dead. She took me over the bridge with her fellow marchers from 1965, Marcia Edwards and Sen. Hank Sanders. Knowing the danger, Martin Luther King asked a congregation in Selma, “Who will walk with me?” Today, I met with our attorneys on the suits we are re-invigorating in Georgia and beyond. So, I have to ask ... READ MORE

Pizza outlawed in GeorgiaTo Suppress the Vote

I can’t make this up. The state of Georgia passed a law this week, HB 531, that outlaws handing out pizza slices and water to voters waiting for hours to vote. But Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger objected to the law because, he said, his office had already ruled that pizza... READ MORE

Texas Gets Lay’d: How the Bush Family turned off the lights

Maybe because Texas gave us that wet-lipped huckster Ted Cruz, you think the state deserves to freeze in the dark. I get that, but it’s not their fault, a least not the victims burning family heirlooms to stave off frostbite. “What happened was entirely predictable,” power distribution expert attorney Beth Emory said of the blackouts. She told me this... READ MORE