Keystone XL pipeline rejection a setback for Canadian tar sands development
The Obama administration's decision Wednesday to reject a pipeline that would have carried crude from Canada’s tar sands deposits to Texas oil refineries isn’t likely to end investment in the...
View ArticleNew York City issues huge fine for breaking toy gun ban
A shop owner in New York City has learned the hard way that the city’s ban on real-looking toy guns is not a game.
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Ideal tax?
Newt Gingrich joked that he ought to rename his proposed 15 percent flat tax the “Mitt Romney Flat Tax,” so “all Americans would pay the rate Mitt Romney paid.” Actually, not all Americans. Under...
View ArticleFeds investigating possible fraud at GE’s former subprime unit
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, right, waits for the start of the company's annual shareholders meeting. Michael Hudson http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/michael-hudson E. Scott Reckard...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Did Gingrich ‘slash’ federal spending?
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich FactCheck.Org http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/factcheckorg
View ArticleObama rainmakers enjoy White House invites, appointments and contracts
President Obama at a fundraiser in Seattle. Fred Schulte http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/fred-schulte Aaron Mehta http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/aaron-mehta
View ArticleAnniversary of 'Citizens United' decision draws protesters
Two years after a controversial Supreme Court ruling lifted many restrictions on political spending, America’s campaign finance laws have officially become a joke.Stephen Colbert, a comedian who says...
View ArticleUnlike president, GOP candidates won't release names of top fundraisers
Mitt Romney greets voters Aaron Mehta http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/aaron-mehta Fred Schulte http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/fred-schulte
View ArticleWest Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net
Fishmongers shown in Sekondi, now Sekondi-Takoradi, is Ghana's "Oil City." Fishermen here are among those whose operations have been impacted by the oil development. Like all the fishermen in the...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Final four GOP candidates face off in South Carolina
Republican presidential candidates, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, take the stage before...
View ArticleCould SOPA and PIPA interfere with State Dept.’s global Internet freedom agenda?
Update, Jan. 20, 12:19pm: Implicitly acknowledging concerns about its Internet anti-piracy bill raised by online protesters and the State Department, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided Friday...
View ArticleS.C. governor got $62,500 from Romney-affiliated PACs
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley reacts at right after Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gets the crowd to sing "Happy Birthday" for her during a rally at his...
View ArticlePresidential super PAC spending hits $30 million
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich participate in the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. John Dunbar...
View ArticleHaley Barbour's money mission
Former Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour Peter H. Stone http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/peter-h-stone
View ArticleFour reasons GOP lawmakers aren't backing Gingrich
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Corbin Hiar http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/corbin-hiar
View ArticleAdelsons double down on Gingrich, kick in another $5 million to super PAC
Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, center, with his wife Miriam Adelson look the the construction model of a new hotel on the Cotai Strip in Macau. Peter H. Stone...
View ArticleANALYSIS: Park City vantage point puts tragedy of American health care in...
Sarah Burke competes in the women's halfpipe finals at the freestyle skiing world championships in Park City, Utah. Wendell Potter http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/wendell-potter
View ArticleLords of the fish
The Santa María II belongs to Lota Protein, owned by the Koppernaes Group in Norway, which has waged a 21-month legal war with eight powerful groups that own rights to 87 percent of jack mackerel in...
View ArticleAbout this project
Looting the Seas is an award-winning project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looking at forces that are rapidly emptying oceans of fish.
View ArticleMethodology: Behind the numbers
Peru is second only to China as a fishing nation, and its main catch is anchoveta. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with the Lima-based investigative center IDL-Reporteros,...
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