Great Memorial Day post from David Swanson on AfterDowning Street.
Peace in a Gas Pump or Bringing Pharaoh’s Armed Madhouse Home | AfterDowningStreet.org

The United States is addicted to oil and we’re working with allies and tens of thousands of citizens to intervene. Check out this great new flash video, take action, and please pass it on!
Meanwhile, like the addicts that they are, G8 leaders focussed this year’s St. Petersburg Summit on promoting trillions of dollars of investment [...]

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is said to have “icily” rejected US and EU criticism of Russia’s blatant use of gas resources as a political weapon in a dispute with Ukraine earlier in the year.
More importantly he also publicly rebuffed European attempts to gain access to his country’s vast gas pipeline network. Putin’s tough stance at [...]

A senior scientist whose work is being featured in adverts produced by the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Insitute, has condemned them as “a deliberate effort to mislead.”

As Big Oil comes under attack for high gas prices, “price gouging”, record profits and huge pay-outs to executives, it is spending millions on advertising to win over a skeptical public. They have also increased their lobbying efforts in Washington to reassure an increasingly hostile Congress.