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Questions Obama dodged in terror speech

Questions Obama dodged in terror speech

Here are some critical questions Obama did not raise or answer in the address at the National Defense University.…

May 23, 2013No CommentRead More

Obama tackles drones, Guantanamo in reset of war on terror

Obama tackles drones, Guantanamo in reset of war on terror

Obama said that targeting terrorists with unmanned aerial vehicles was a legal, effective and just military tactic…

May 23, 2013No CommentRead More

Local

167 March Against Monsanto in Coos Bay

167 March Against Monsanto in Coos Bay

According to one of the organizers, Erin Dye, more than 167 people joined in the…

May 25, 20131 CommentRead More

The World Turns Upside Down for the Tax Credits Committee

The World Turns Upside Down for the Tax Credits Committee

The Joint Committee on Tax Credits heard from families, small business people and advocates on…

May 25, 2013No CommentRead More

Roblan to carry port tax break bill, will cost schools more than $700K

Roblan to carry port tax break bill, will cost schools more than $700K

David Koch, CEO of the Port of Coos Bay explains that this is a small…

May 24, 20135 CommentsRead More

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden lays out ‘framework’ for boosting O&C Lands logging

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden lays out ‘framework’ for boosting O&C Lands logging

Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, spelled out a "legislative framework" today that calls for increased logging and…

May 23, 20131 CommentRead More

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OccupySouthCoast

Declaration/Manifesto of OOSC

Declaration/Manifesto of OOSC

Occupy Oregon South Coast adopted a declaration/manifesto on May 19th, 2013.  If this manifesto appeals to you and you are interested in being on the mailing list regarding…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Local Opinions

Stop tying Oregon schools to the budget train tracks: Agenda 2013

Stop tying Oregon schools to the budget train tracks: Agenda 2013

Every year, Oregon ties its K-12 schools to the train tracks and then unties them six or eight months later.…

May 25, 2013No CommentRead More

Burning Tar Sands = ‘Unsolvable’ Climate Crisis: Hansen

Burning Tar Sands = ‘Unsolvable’ Climate Crisis: Hansen

Hansen warned, we could eventually "warm the planet even…

Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher on Civil Disobedience & Building Movements

Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher on Civil Disobedience & Building Movements

Democracy Now interviews Tim DeChristopher recently released after 21…

Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s “Sacrifice Zone” for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking

Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s “Sacrifice Zone” for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking

The air remains hazardous to breathe in, it emits…

Amazon May Lose 65 Percent of Land Biomass by 2060

Amazon May Lose 65 Percent of Land Biomass by 2060

They predict that by 2050 a decrease in precipitation…

She Knows Nothing – Port spends wildly

She Knows Nothing – Port spends wildly

Callery’s $30 million makes over $63 million of public…

Jordan Cove files FERC export permit same day as DOE says it will delay decisions

Jordan Cove files FERC export permit same day as DOE says it will delay decisions

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Tuesday he will delay…

Jordan Cove files formal application for liquefied natural gas export in Coos Bay

Jordan Cove files formal application for liquefied natural gas export in Coos Bay

The backers, headed by Calgary-based Veresen Inc., have sought…

Coquille considering mandated business license with annual background checks

Coquille considering mandated business license with annual background checks

According to a handout from the Coquille Chamber of…

Documents Show Exxon Lied in Aftermath of Tar Sands Pipeline Rupture

Documents Show Exxon Lied in Aftermath of Tar Sands Pipeline Rupture

Internal ExxonMobil documents obtained through an Freedom of Information…

Third Time’s Still a Toxic Mess: Another Derailment Spews Crude

Third Time’s Still a Toxic Mess: Another Derailment Spews Crude

A freight train carrying Canadian crude derailed in southeastern…

Mining Companies Invade Wisconsin for Frac-Sand

Mining Companies Invade Wisconsin for Frac-Sand

The recent boom in hydrofracking for natural gas and…

Australia pushes for ocean ‘fertilisation’ ban

Australia pushes for ocean ‘fertilisation’ ban

the London Protocol governing waste dumping at sea which…

Tax-Avoiding Corporations Siphoning Billions from World’s Poorest

Tax-Avoiding Corporations Siphoning Billions from World’s Poorest

the UK’s and the G8’s own tax havens in…

Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal

Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal

Top 6 list of need-to-know facts on social welfare…

‘Tremendous Victory’ in Growing Rebuke of Citizens United

‘Tremendous Victory’ in Growing Rebuke of Citizens United

an astounding 76.6 percent of Los Angeles voters "emphatically…

Apple’s Cook grilled in Congress on offshore taxes

Apple’s Cook grilled in Congress on offshore taxes

Apple chief Tim Cook faced a grilling Tuesday by…

Opium cultivation to surge in Afghanistan in 2013: UN

Opium cultivation to surge in Afghanistan in 2013: UN

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to increase…

Maher: U.S. needs to give up war addiction and define ‘peace as strength’

Maher: U.S. needs to give up war addiction and define ‘peace as strength’

Be careful, North Korea, Maher warned, “With Afghanistan winding…

Ex-N.Korea spy says Kim struggling to control military

Ex-N.Korea spy says Kim struggling to control military

North has been turning up the rhetoric for weeks…

N. Korea to pull workers from key joint industrial zone

N. Korea to pull workers from key joint industrial zone

North Korea "will withdraw all its employees" from the…

Arts

Colbert – Interviews Maurice Sendak

Colbert – Interviews Maurice Sendak

The books survived long enough to be passed down to my first son but didn't survive the second one but I have bought the collection as gifts…

January 26, 20121 Comment

Energy

French-Asian firms reveal LNG contract in Canada

French-Asian firms reveal LNG contract in Canada

A consortium comprising French, South Korean and Chinese companies has won a contract for a liquefied natural gas project in Canada…

May 22, 2013No Comment

Environment

Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has ‘Control Over Product of Life’

Corporate Win: Supreme Court Says Monsanto Has ‘Control Over Product of Life’

Monsanto's policies prohibit farmers from saving or reusing seeds from Monsanto born crops…

May 13, 2013No Comment

Media

Jeremy Scahill: Obama Administration Has Sent a Chill Through the Media Community

Jeremy Scahill: Obama Administration Has Sent a Chill Through the Media Community

the AP called it an unprecedented intrusion into its newsgathering operations. But should the journalistic community be so surprised? With the Obama White House’s track record on…

May 21, 2013No Comment

Ancient History

Were ‘hobbit’ hominids island dwarfs?

Were ‘hobbit’ hominids island dwarfs?

how come it shared the planet with Homo sapiens some 13,000 years ago, when -- so far as was known -- anatomically modern man was the sole,…

April 17, 2013No Comment

Science

Dream of Mars exploration achievable, experts say

Dream of Mars exploration achievable, experts say

Seventy-five percent say NASA's budget should be doubled to one percent of the federal budget to fund a mission to Mars and other initiatives.…

May 5, 20131 Comment

Foreign policy

NATO strike kills 10 children in Afghanistan, say officials

NATO strike kills 10 children in Afghanistan, say officials

A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 children, officials said Sunday.…

April 7, 2013No Comment

Veterans

Jon Stewart: ‘Yes, we motherf*cking can’ fix Veterans Affairs backlog

Jon Stewart: ‘Yes, we motherf*cking can’ fix Veterans Affairs backlog

Stewart has repeatedly mocked and criticized the Obama administration for its failure to clean up the agency, which is currently forcing about 900,000 veterans to wait to…

May 20, 2013No Comment