As president Obama reads the reactions to his first fleeting visit to the Middle East, his first proposed African visit is also causing quite a stir.
In just over a month, Obama will undertake his first visit to the continent. The country he will visit is not the powerhouse of West Africa, Nigeria, but its smaller [...]

At the end of last week, environmental campaigners and Native Alaskans were celebrating a huge victory.
A US Federal Appeals court ruled that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast.

It’s not often that US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar delivers a speech to polar bears, dolphins, jelly fish and sea turtles, who all sit intently on chairs in the audience.  It’s not every day that you see surfers covered in chocolate oil spills.
Salazar was making the opening remarks to a public hearing on [...]

Do you sometimes wonder why the American people seem to support more offshore drilling, despite the fact that it won’t make a difference on gas prices?
Its not only that its all in how the question gets asked, it also turns out that the media is simply not telling a critical piece of data.
According to a [...]

It could be the scene from a Hollywood horror movie. In a darkened cavern strange beasts make noises to please their masters. They know what they are saying makes no sense, but that does not stop their strange mutterings.

But this is no movie, this is reality. Everyday, even though they are meant to be sunning [...]