News Source: Democracy Now
| 11 months ago
A federal jury in San Francisco has just cleared the oil giant Chevron of any responsibility for the May ‘98 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. A decade ago over 100 people had occupied the Chevron-owned oil platform to...
News Source: Truthdig
| 11 months ago
Perhaps the least well known among them is retired Marine Gen...The position is crucial—think of the power that Henry Kissinger wielded in Richard Nixon’s White House...The institute has been criticized by environmental groups for, among other...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
A federal jury says the oil company can't be held accountable for the fatal shootings of two unarmed protesters at an offshore oil platform...December 2, 2008 San Ramon-based Chevron, California's largest company, countered that the villagers were...
News Source: Scoop
| 11 months ago
923.8 thousand sq. km. (356,700 sq. mi.) about the size of California, Nevada, and Arizona...Other cities --Kano (9.3 million), Lagos (9.01 million), Ibadan (5 million), Enugu (500,000). Terrain: Ranges from southern coastal swamps to tropical...