Faced with increasingly stiff competition from cheap, fuel-efficient larger vehicles such as hybrids, makers of minicars are improving gas mileage and dropping prices in a desperate bid to win back customers.

Have you heard the news? Chrysler, the recipient of $15.3 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout money -- granted in part because of its promise to invest in electric vehicle technology -- has just announced it is scrapping its plans for producing large volum

Union Carbide may have abandoned their plant in 1984, but the toxic waste that they had been throwing into a breached solar evaporation pond has stayed and spread each monsoon season into surrounding neighbourhoods

The Venezuelan govt has intervened in 4 linked banks that were not complying with administrative norms, & has also arrested their main shareholder, Ricardo Fernandez, who is known as a supporter of the govt. The intervention aims to protect bank clients.

If any of you are still a bit confused of what caused the collapse in global economy, then please watch this, short, concise and to the point. The Conmen and The Conned.

Big news today. We've confirmed that eight more major advertisers have pulled their support from Glenn Beck's show -- Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank, Broadview Security, and Re-Bath.

American banks were just bailed out by us, the American tax payers, and some have not even paid us back yet. However, they are giving out 32.6 billion dollars in bonuses. They need to be held accountable not only for their actions that helped lead us

Also, Venezuela's President Chavez praised the Spanish government for having condemned the June 28th coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, and for having refused to recognize the coup regime that continues to rule Honduras by military force.

Rather than continuing the flow of generally destructive policies, tactics & advice from the north to the south (via the IMF, WTO, US embassies, etc), I am suggesting that the flow of knowledge be reversed, from the south to the north.

In 2002, many private media supported a coup in Venezuela. 27 families control over 32% of radio & TV waves, with as many as 48 stations grouped under a single owner. Minister Cabello proposed reforms to limit the concentration of private media ownership.