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Trento’s Take: Fox News Can’t Upset Murdoch’s Saudi Prince
Last month I appeared on Fox News Network’s morning show, Fox and Friends, to talk about airline security. Normally such appearances end up as clips on the Fox News Web site. Granted, the Steve Doocy interview was hardly groundbreaking, but that is seldom a criterion for feeding the beast that is a ...
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Dirty Waters: The Politics of Ocean Pollution
While most of America was still reeling from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Carnival Corporation – the world’s largest cruise...
Dirty Waters: Cashing in on Ocean Pollution
Despite their reliance on natural resources to sell cruises, the cruise line industry defends its right to treat the oceans like a sewer and a waste d...
On Prioritizing Terrorism
The bungled attempt by the young Nigerian to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day has raised a lot of eyebrows in and out of govern...
The No-Fly List: Americas Maginot Line Part II - How The CIA Lets Terrorist Fly
Had President Obama been aware of what the CIA did to the government of New Zealand in 2006 he might have been even more angry at his national securit...
The Marcellus Shale: New York is the Natural Gas Industry’s New Lab Rat
Under some of the most beautiful parts of rural New York State in the pre-Jurassic era formation called the Marcellus Shale is an unimaginable fortune in natural gas. Getting that gas to market has become an obsession of Wall Street and the biggest gas drilling companies in the world. In this gas rush, New York is fast becoming a geological science experiment that many experts fear will have profound, dire environmental and health consequences. The drilling companies use a witch’s brew of water,...
Read more...The Atlantic Water Summit …After These Messages
[Editor’s Note: DCBureau.org sent a pair of reporters to Atlantic magazine's October 29th Water Summit. Our reporters were prevented from videotaping the conference by The Atlantic who arranged to exclusively tape the event, but did not offer it live. We present our Atlantic — approved video report by Allison Sickle and a companion piece by correspondent Byron Moore that was not shared in advance with Atlantic’s team of editors and advertisers.]
The main Ballroom at the National Press Club was pa...
Read more...Fish and Paint Chips Part II: The Politics of Ocean Trash
When it comes to reducing garbage in the world’s oceans, the political angle is just as important as the scientific, to judge by industry’s behavior. On Aug. 18, Seattle voters passed by a 53-47 margin a referendum to overturn a 20-cent fee approved last year by the city council for using plastic bags at supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other public information, the referendum was backed primarily by the American Chemistry Council (ACC...
Read more...Fish and Paint Chips Part I: The Science of Trash
Recent research has the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) concerned that the huge quantities of metal, plastic, paint chips and other man-made debris floating at sea, hundreds and even thousands of miles from land, may be working their way into the American diet. NOAA, a part of the Commerce Department, largely exists to track weather patterns and hurricanes, and its entry into the public health sphere serves as an indication of how severe the problem has become. It is not t...
Read more...- California Fights Shipping Pollution As International Shippers Push Back
- No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part III: Off The Hook
- No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part II: A Lack of Authority
- No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part I: Low-Hanging Fruit
The No-Fly List Part I: America’s Maginot Line
Politicians have long made promises that if taxpayers spend enough money, they can be protected from evil forces. The Maginot Line was supposed to protect France from a German invasion. The Germans defeated it easily because it was poorly conceived and largely built as a boon to French contractors. America’s Strategic Defense Initiative, the hugely expensive — $50 billion and counting — and failed “Star Wars” missile defense system envisioned by President Reagan, has so far only protected the bo...
Read more...Vietnam Reconsidered
A recent NEWSWEEK cover story – HOW WE (COULD HAVE) WON IN VIETNAM, by Evan Thomas and John Barry (November 16, 2009 ) – has responded to the ever-louder jungle drums of the recovering Right and pulled the stake and raised up for more recent generations the vampire logic behind the argument that “..the United States could have won in Vietnam – if only the U.S. Congress hadn’t cut off military aid to South Vietnam.” It quotes Dwight Eisenhower as maintaining that “if you fight you must fight to w...
Read more...Disgraced USA Today Reporter Makes Comeback as the Kurds’ DC Flack
A spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Washington is an ex- USA Today reporter who resigned under pressure amid accusations of plagiarism, DCBureau has learned. The reporter, Tom Squitieri, once covered the Iraqi Kurds, who now pay him $8,000 a month as a registered agent of the KRG.
In 2005, Squitieri, then a Pentagon correspondent with the Gannett-owned USA Today, left the paper after his editors learned that he had lifted quotes from other publications. Several years later, he fo...
Read more...No Contractor Left Behind Part IV: Congress’s Powerless Probe
“When you have contractors that have demonstrated that they have fleeced the government agency or the taxpayer, I don’t think there should be a slap on the wrist or a pat on the back. They should be debarred. …This is the most significant waste and fraud in the history of our country. It’s not even close.” Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
After a flurry of Pentagon contracting scandals involving KBR went unaddressed by Republican lawmakers under the Bush administration, Democrats ran on promises of “real ...
Read more...Trento's Take: The CIA and Airline Security: The Dots No One Wants to Connect
Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan’s report to President Obama seemed the essence of candor. What was released to the public on January 7, 2010, seemed hard hitting and provided the illusion that ...
Read more...Trento’s Take: KBR: The Pentagon’s Imaginary Friend
Imagine being in the Armed Forces and assigned to Iraq. You arrive in Iraq, go into brand new barracks built by KBR, step in the shower, are electrocuted, and die.
In Balad, Iraq, you go outside – wars require that – and breath in a toxic chemical ste...
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Thank you internet trolls: Or how to stop worrying and learn to love anonymous attacks from complete hacks on forums
In December, reporter Allison Sickle wrote an in-depth piece about the environmental impact of drilling in the Marcellus Shale. While there were many people who thought the piece was fair, a few organizations took issue with our characterization of the environmental challenges facing the Marcellus Shale region. Soon after posting, a flood of comments came in flaming the article for being “alarmist,”’ for not mentioning all enormous benefit gained by drilling, and calling out the author’s research and “so called experts.”We were unsurprised by the comments, the internet being the ultimate bastion of anonymous invective, but the organization and speed of these attacks were alarming. After a dig through the site analytics, it wasn’t too hard to spot the forum that was probably responsible for the attacks on the story. It isn’t unusual for us to get calls from corporate hacks that take issue with our articles (Nestle), but this new brand of grassroots attack is a different animal.
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Committing to Nuclear Power?
The Obama administration’s plan to increase the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program to $54 billion may repower the nuclear power industry. Some Obama supporters say they are disappointed by his commitment to nuclear power. They say he has ignored a highly charged issue: the ultimate disposal of nuclear waste.“During the campaign, President Obama said he was open to reactors but a lot of the problems had to be solved first, and those problems haven’t been solved yet,” said Friends of the Earth director of public advocacy, Nick Berning. “We’ve got waste piling up at reactors around the country, but there’s no where to put it.”
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Why Obama isn’t as vulnerable on National Security as Roger Ailes would have you believe
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Roger Ailes put on quite the show the other day, but I would like to focus on some comments he made regarding national security. Proclaiming that safety and sovereignty should be the number one issue on the President’s plate, Ailes launched into his greatest hits. He bobbed and weaved with blatant fear mongering, got in some quick jabs with “fair and balanced,” then yelled most “trusted name in news” just for good measure. If you’ve ever wanted a clinic on how to intentionally spread misinformation by preying on the inability of journalists to keep you accurate, then you were in luck on Sunday. Here are a few reasons why Obama shouldn’t worry about Roger Ailes assessment of priorities.
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