News To Make You Furious- VAULT OF VENOM!

Greg Palast’s 2009 jaw-dropping article on the 20^th anniversary of Exxon’s Valdez oil disaster made us angry.  In fact, it made us furious.  And one of the most infuriating things about it was that no one else was furious because no one was paying any attention at all.  We featured it in our newsletter with the headline “News To Make You Furious”.  Maybe we couldn’t bring much additional attention to it, but we thought it was important enough to make an effort.

Once we’d started it was hard to stop, because there was a seemingly unending string of appalling things being completely ignored.  News To Make You Furious was born.  Since 2009 we’ve added stories on modern slavery, the Nigerian Delta, SLAPP suits, Indian suicide, income inequality, ALEC, climate change, tax shelters, media consolidation, depleted uranium, and so sadly many more.   But by September 2020, we were getting tired.  It’s one thing to do a deep dive on the police technique of parallel construction when people are fixated on Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke (2013), but quite another to focus on prostituting God for fun and profit while people are fixated on covid, fascism, and race riots (2020).  We think the issues we covered were critically important, but EVERY story seems critically important and “furious” seems to be just a baseline emotion for all of them.  The news had caught up with us, and it was time for News To Make You Furious to go into the Vault.

Now, for your consideration, we’ve archived more than 50 painful and painfully detailed looks at some of the most infuriating issues no one’s paying attention to.  WordPress won’t let us direct-link to each story, so you’ll have to cut-and-paste the link into your browser, but you’ll find stories below from individual wrongdoing to societal malfeasance.  If it’s the right word… enjoy!