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with Abby Martin and Greg Palast
teleSUR English on Jan 15, 2016
The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil’s strong-arm reach–its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.
Featuring interviews with two investigative journalists who have covered oil disasters on-the-ground–Antonia Juhasz, author of “Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill”, and Greg Palast, author of “Vulture’s Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pig, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores.”
from the archives:
Chris Hedges: The Revolution Will Be Local
Regardless of Keystone XL, Tar Sands Oil Will Still Flow to the Gulf
Greg Palast: Exclusive Investigation Uncovers How BP Uses Bribes To Do Business
Greg Palast: BP, Not Exxon, Caused the Exxon Valdez Disaster
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Strong medicine from wonderful Abby, nothing much need be added here…she frames it so exceptionally well.
Reality today is a waking nightmare ~ like living in a Jonathan Swift satire, with our ignoble “great and the good” tycoons advising us to breed more so we can enjoy banqueting on our precious offspring.
What I really do not understand is how these monsters of extraction monopoly, can happily sanctify their criminal practices in the name of a utilitarian necessity that violently profanes the cathedral purity of the natural world, when they would not dare even to imagine violating a “holy shrine” like the Sistine Chapel. I mean, is this some hereditary affliction of institutional schizoid mania?
I’d love to hear an episode with Polly Higgins talking about eradicating ecocide.
Thanks, David, thought you’d enjoy this one. I appreciate Abby Martin going into the history of whatever her topic/issue that she covers. Having some background to the current issues of the day is excellent journalism.
Speaking of Jonathan Swift, have you read Travels of a New Gulliver? Here is Chapter 1: https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/travels-of-a-new-gulliver-chapter-1-by-joseph-natoli/
More at https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/tag/travels-of-a-new-gulliver/