Author: Damian Hendricks

When the Supreme Court issued their ruling earlier this year in the Citizens’ United case, they opened the floodgates for corporate money to finally have complete control over our election process. Luckily, there are still a few members of congress willing to fight for us, and now legislation has been introduced that would force corporations to disclose what they pay for. For example, if Exxon wants to run a smear campaign against a Democratic Senator, that ad must clearly state that Exxon paid it for. That’s just one of the many items featured in legislation proposed by Congressman Chris...

As oil continues to gush from the BP site in the Gulf of Mexico, so do the lies coming from the BP spin machine. Mike Papantonio is working to hold the company accountable for the damage that they are causing the environment, as well as to expose the lies that they continue to feed the news media. Here’s Mike’s latest appearance on Hardball with Chris...

Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig, but something else has been gushing too lately: BP’s public relations offensive. From controlling media access to the site, as Mac McClelland reported to us last week, to buying up search terms on the Web so that Google drives traffic to BP’s own website, the oil company seems determined to burnish its image even as its oil continues to cover the coasts. Mike Papantonio joins Laura Flanders on GritTV to discuss the ongoing PR offensive from BP–and whether we should buy any of...