Thursday, December 24, 2009
Everything is Connected
Reading about the $200 million Justice Department agreement with oil and gas companies resulting from federal whistleblower lawsuits that showed the companies deliberately falsified records to steal royalties due American Indians and the US Treasury, I couldn't help thinking about the third world conditions on many Great Plains reservations, where kids go hungry and elders freeze to death every winter due to the highest poverty levels in the US.
