Exposed: Chevron’s Cover-up of Gross Environmental Abuses in Ecuador
From Alternet: What is a lost culture? Is it just some intangible time before? Is it an economy? Can you inventory a lost culture in the number of lives lost or rivers polluted? Those questions haunt...
View ArticleEcuador To Decide Whether To Grant Political Asylum To Julian Assange
Julian Assange has spent the past two days hidden inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, with British authorities poised to arrest him the moment he steps out. Ecuador’s president may grant him...
View ArticleOfficials Claim Ecuador Will Grant Julian Assange Asylum
The Ecuadorian president has denied the rumors, saying that his government’s decision will not be cemented until the end of the week, but this seems like a positive development. The Guardian reports:...
View ArticleNo, Actually Ecuador Doesn’t Support Press Freedom
Picture: Espen Moe (CC) Now that Ecuador has granted Julian Assange political asylum, maybe that means he won’t be extradited to Sweden. So, unfortunately, we may never know the truth of whether he...
View ArticleWire Service Dutifully Writes Down Ecuadorean Government’s Claims About the...
Picture: VitaliVVitaliV (CC) From Reuters: The Ecuadorean government shares Assange’s fears that he ultimately could be extradited to the United States, which is angry that his WikiLeaks website has...
View ArticleIlluminating the Darkness in Shamanism
The starry-eyed fascination with South American shamanism in the spiritual counter-culture is beginning to shift towards a more grounded, realistic perspective. Aurelia Hunter tells a personal tale of...
View ArticleInside the Global Fight Against Corporate Impunity
Among the many terrible features of the Trans Pacific Partnership, twelve countries are crafting something that would give corporations unprecedented power: a secret court for capitalist enterprises...
View ArticlePresident Rafael Correa on Empire, the Environment & Trump vs. Clinton
After touring Chevron’s oil pollution in the Ecuadorean Amazon, Abby Martin sits down for an exclusive interview with Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, about the legal battle against the corporation...
View ArticleChevron vs. the Amazon – Special Report by Abby Martin
Abby launches a deep investigation into Chevron Texaco's intentional spilling of 19 billion gallons of oil and waste in Ecuador's pristine Amazon rainforest--and the 25-year-long legal battle that...
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