Philip Palij

  • Shared Obama's Support for Fracking 'A Painful Moment' for Communities (Progressive Opinion)
    February 8, 2012 - 6:49am

    Last week, President Obama called the United States "the Saudi Arabia of natural gas" in a speech about boosting domestic energy production. That concerns Wyoming farmer John Fenton, who already has more than two dozen gas wells on his property.

    The Environmental Protection Agency ruled in December that water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming, was a result of natural gas extraction and the controversial technique known as fracking.

  • Shared Auction 2012: Big Money's Next Trade Goal Is 'NAFTA With Asia' (Progressive Opinion)
    February 6, 2012 - 5:50am

    Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic.

    The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement soured the American public on trade deals that were supposed to boost the economy -- remember the giant sucking sound that followed? -- but it left America's globe-spanning corporate behemoths panting for more.

    Since then, powerful business interests have cheered the signing of 19 more such agreements. The three most recent, with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, won congressional approval in October.

  • Shared The sweatshop price of Apple’s huge success (News Headline)
    February 3, 2012 - 3:33am

    The beautiful iPad, a technical and financial success story in the modern age. If you have bought one you probably love it, its that good.

  • Shared 'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Congress Hearing By Order of Republicans (News Headline)
    February 1, 2012 - 12:39pm

    WASHINGTON -- In a stunning break with First Amendment policy on Capitol Hill, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice.

  • Shared Kleptocrat Watch: Obama's Mortgage 'Investigation' Designed to Fail? (Progressive Opinion)
    January 30, 2012 - 10:31am

    Caption: All across the US, Occupy protestors have been "reclaiming" foreclosed homes and boarded up properties in what some are calling a "tactical shift" in the movement which has targeted the inequality in the distribution of wealth in the US.

    'Another bit of regulatory/enforcement theater'

    In last night's State of the Union speech President Obama announced the creation of a committee to investigate "the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages."

  • Shared FBI releases plans to monitor social networks (News Headline)
    January 27, 2012 - 6:46am

    The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly.

  • Shared Wikipedia Foundation: English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout (News Headline)
    January 17, 2012 - 3:30am

    To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community

    From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director

    Date: J

  • Shared On the Trail of Mortgage Fraud (News Headline)
    January 17, 2012 - 2:41am

    When is a crime not a crime?

    When criminality subverts the system, challenges the system, becomes the system. From the Kleptocrats' point of view it is the systematic breakdown of each and every law which gets in their way; preventing the ascent to power of their enhanced moral values.

    The Kleptocrats are really America's third political party.

  • Shared Help Stop SOPA/PIPA Breaking The Internet (News Headline)
    January 14, 2012 - 5:52am

    You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it.

    Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any o

  • Shared Strait of Hormuz: Could the U.S. Navy be defeated? (Progressive Opinion)
    January 9, 2012 - 8:33am

    Surprisingly, after sober reflection, in the short term the answer might be yes.

    We have all been watching: the sabre rattling, the war games, the transit of US warships through the strait of Hormuz, the mobilisation and movement of troops.

    A pause to look at the political, economic and military facts in the short term before the carnage starts. It is not happy reading.

    This article does not include in its assessment the possibility of an Iranian Government with a nuclear weapon at its disposal or the implicit threat of an Israeli/American nuclear strike on Iran.