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• Back to Reality
  Can Barack Obama undo the damage caused by George W. Bush’s war on science?
  • By Olivia Judson - New York Times

• So much for our "Addiction to Oil"
  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years.
  • By Edmund L. Andrews - New York Times

• Congress's Sham Budget Savings
  So over-the-top in its inequities and giveaways that embarrassed moderates are actually rebelling, withholding support unless some of the more outrageous measures - like despoiling the Alaska wildlife refuge with oil drilling - are killed.
  • Editorial - New York Times

• Former Powell Aide Says Bush Policy Is Run by 'Cabal'
  Lawrence Wilkerson said that President Bush has made the country more vulnerable, not less, to future crises.
  • By Brian Knowlton - New York Times

• Dick Cheney's Song of America
  • By David Armstrong - Information Clearing House

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  Four years ago, candidate Bush promised the American people that he would uphold the laws protecting America's forests. In mid-July, the Bush administration moved to eliminate the Roadless Rule nationwide, a proposal that threatens the entire 58.5 million acres of the USA's pristine roadless areas in national forests.
  • Greenpeace.org

• Appalachia pays price for rule change
  The practice of dumping mining debris into streambeds is explicitly protected, thanks to a small wording change to federal environmental regulations. U.S. officials simply reclassified the debris from objectionable "waste" to legally acceptable "fill." The "fill rule," as the May 2002 rule change is now known, is a case study of how the Bush administration has attempted to reshape environmental policy in the face of fierce opposition.
  • By Joby Warrick - Washington Post

• Bush policies stir up scientific debate
  Is the White House distorting the scientific aspect of policymaking? With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration's use of scientific advice, controversy rises in election year
  • By Matt Crenson - The Associated Press

• Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise
  NBC News findings run counter to recent Bush administration claims
  • By Robert Rivas and Robert Windrem - NBC News

More Shiesters

• EMI Settles Pay-For-Play Probe
  EMI today (June 15) became the fourth and final major label to settle with the state of New York over alleged radio pay-for-play violations
  • By Brian Garrity

• Payola Shocker
  J-Lo, Good Charlote and other "hits" were "bought" by Sony
  • By Roger Friedman - FoxNews.com

• Why does radio suck?
  Because most stations play only the songs the record companies pay them to. And things are going to get worse
  • By Eric Boehlert - Salon.com

• "There's no other business that operates like this. It's unbelievable."
  Most listeners don't know it, but virtually every song they hear on FM commercial radio has been paid for, indirectly, by five major record labels.
  • By Eric Boehlert - Salon.com

• Fighting pay-for-play
  Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola
  • By Eric Boehlert - Salon.com

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