Featuring new videos from Young Love and the controversial (nsfw, strong violence) new video from M.I.A.

As the oil hits the reefs, offshore bars and beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, are we faced with another Exxon Valdez catastrophe? Yes. Can we learn from that disaster in how this ongoing tragedy is documented by artists? Absolutely. Here is some of how we can do it. You may add your suggestions too.

Because gay judges would be too biased towards other gays, and female judges would be too biased towards other women, and minority judges would be too biased towards other minorities. Therefore only straight white judges can be trusted to be perfectly objective and untouched by identity politics.

Of all the boycotts and lawsuits and potential initiatives and splits among nationally recognized Republicans in reaction to the dranconian immigration law in Arizona, perhaps nothing will lead to as much action as the strong statement published by the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association.

It’s criminal investigation week! Not only is the DOJ investigating Goldman Sachs, but the FBI has launched a bribery investigation into Massey Energy, the owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine and a company that regularly condones what amounts to serial murder by negligence.

We finally have clarity from the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs on the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy: they oppose it.

The world appears to have finally woken up to the vast and steadily growing disaster that is the Deepwater Horizon spill. We are seeing the start of a slow-motion replay of the Exxon Valdez disaster.

A public PowerPoint presentation by Halliburton from last November discusses the problems and risks it might encounter during cementing a deep water well. It may explain why the explosion and fire occurred.

The Obama administration and Fed officials have said they “would fight to stop it at all costs” an amendment to the financial reform bill sponsored by Bernie Sanders that would require an audit of the Federal Reserve. However, economists, labor organizers, bloggers and other progressive leaders have signed on to a letter of support for [...]

The amendment to audit the Federal Reserve had well over 300 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, and it passed easily in the House Financial Services Committee. It lives in their version of Wall Street reform. The Senate, as part of a bankruptcy reform bill last year, passed a version of auditing the Fed, through an amendment by Chuck Grassley, by a count of 95-1. Simply put, of all the amendments to the financial reform bill on the floor of the Senate right now, the one with the most likely chance of passing is one that would bring some transparency to the Federal Reserve.

That’s precisely the measure which the Obama Administration is opposing the most

With auditing the Fed, everyone knows the numbers. It has overwhelming support if it comes up for a vote. And that’s why the Administration is targeting their efforts. The calculus out of Treasury is to express little opinion on what they feel is in control, and vociferously oppose what they feel is not.