Articles by Lauren McCauley
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It Wasn’t only Exxon That Knew about Global Warming since the 1970s
Lauren McCauley - Common Dreams,
28 Dec 2015
New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday [22 Dec 2015] that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate.
→ read full articleFortune 500 Companies Stash $2.1 Trillion Offshore as US Taxpayers Foot the Bill
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
12 Oct 2015
America’s Fortune 500 companies are “playing by different rules” when it comes to the federal tax system and, according to a new report out Tuesday [6 Oct 2015], are stashing $2.1 trillion in offshore tax havens—with as much as $620 billion owed to the U.S. taxpayers who are left footing the bill.
→ read full articleVaroufakis: Troika Forced Syriza [and Greece] into Choice between ‘Suicide or Execution’
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Former finance minister blasts EU, saying: “No one government should ever be treated that way in the context of a club of democratic nations. The very powerful Troika of creditors were not interested in coming to a sensible, honorable mutually beneficial agreement. They were far more interested in humiliating this government and overthrowing it.”
→ read full articlePope Francis Tells World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
20 Jul 2015
‘Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up,’ Argentinian pontiff said in address to Paraguay youth.
→ read full article‘Guilty of Embarrassing Government’: CIA Whistleblower Gets 42-Month Sentence
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
18 May 2015
A federal court in Virginia sentenced former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling to three and a half years in prison on Monday [11 May 2015] in a case that has received widespread condemnation for revealing the “rank hypocrisy” of the U.S. government’s war on whistleblowers, as it stands in stark contrast to leniency granted to former CIA director General David Petraeus.
→ read full articleCyber-Security Firm: NSA-Linked Spyware Found in Hard Drives Worldwide
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
2 Mar 2015
The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists. They said the Equation Group “worm” was closely linked to Stuxnet, the cyberweapon the U.S. used to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facility.
→ read full articleNew Report on Lynching Reveals America’s Sinister Legacy of ‘Racial Terrorism’
Lauren McCauley – Moyers & Company,
23 Feb 2015
Feb11, 2015 – Capital punishment and ongoing racial injustice in the United States are “direct descendents” of lynching, charges a new study, which found that the pre-World War II practice of “racial terrorism” has had a much more profound impact on race relations in America than previously acknowledged.
→ read full articleFear of Government Spying ‘Chilling’ Writers’ Speech Worldwide
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
12 Jan 2015
‘If writers avoid exploring topics for fear of possible retribution, the material available to readers—particularly those seeking to understand the most controversial and challenging issues facing the world today—may be greatly impoverished.’
→ read full articleThreatening Whales and Planet, US Opens Up Offshore Oil Exploration
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
21 Jul 2014
The Obama administration on Friday [18 Jul 2014] gave the greenlight for fossil fuel companies to begin exploring for oil in the waters off the east coast of the U.S., a move said to have a dire consequences for marine life in the short term and on our global climate for years to come.
→ read full articleReports of Blackwater Swarming Kiev as East Vows Independence
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
19 May 2014
Mercenaries contracted by the U.S. firm Academi, formerly Blackwater, have been deployed to Kiev. According to German news source Bild on Friday [9 May 2014], and repeated by Der Spiegel, Ukrainian security forces are being supported by over 100 “elite soldiers” involved in a “punitive operation mounted by Ukraine’s new government.”
→ read full articleBrazil’s ‘Internet Bill of Rights’ a Victory for Web Freedom
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
28 Apr 2014
Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the Internet, says law will ‘unleash a new era—in which the rights of citizens in all countries are protected by a Digital Rights Charter’.
→ read full article(Português) Em sua primeira aparição ao vivo desde as delações, Snowden faz um “chamado às armas”
Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
De acordo com a programação do evento, a plataforma serve para “encorajar os empreendedores, inovadores, fabricantes, hackers, nerds, fundadores, investidores e pensadores que estejam assistindo à videoconferência do SXSW para construir sistemas mais eficientes na proteção da privacidade do usuário”.
→ read full articleVoices Blast Dow Chemical’s ‘Agent Orange’ Seed Warfare
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
17 Mar 2014
Pending approval of the GE Seeds, Dow prepares to roll out seed-herbicide combination package, spelling ‘catastrophe’ for farms and farmers.
→ read full articleToxic Overflow of Thousands of Fukushima Tanks Following Heavy Rains
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
28 Oct 2013
Highly radioactive water crested the walls of some 1,000 storage tanks at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility after plant officials underestimated the amount of rainfall Sunday [20 Oct 2013].
→ read full articleIn ‘Chilling’ Ruling, Chevron Granted Access to Activists’ Private Internet Data
Lauren McCauley - Common Dreams,
15 Jul 2013
A federal [US] judge has ruled to allow Chevron, through Microsoft, to collect the IP records and identity email accounts from over 100 environmental activists, journalists and attorneys. The oil giant alleges having being victim of a conspiracy in the $18.2 billion judgment against it for dumping 18.5 billion gallons of oil waste in the Ecuadorean Amazon, causing untold damage to the rainforest.
→ read full articleHerbicides for GMOs Driving Monarch Butterfly Populations to ‘Ominous’ Brink
Lauren McCauley – Common Dreams,
18 Mar 2013
Released by the Mexican government along with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a recent survey found a 59% decrease in the area occupied by monarch colonies wintering in the forests of central Mexico, the Los Angeles Times reports. Scientists are attributing the decline of this essential pollinating population to the ongoing drought and the “explosive” increase in the use of genetically modified crops in the American corn belt.
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