The Independent

For decades, US corporate interests have systematically sabotaged efforts to protect the environment. But the Bush years have seen the polluters encouraged to despoil as never before. By Robert F Kennedy Jr

If HIV were just a bug that people were fighting against, it would be hard enough. But it is difficult not to think of the human immunodeficiency virus as an intelligent and calculating enemy.

It is a story of empire-building, intrigue, espionage, double-dealing and arm-twisting that Rudyard Kipling would have been proud to write.

A survey of the good, the bad and the uncertain

George Bush probably owes his presidency to the absentee military voters who nudged his tally in Florida decisively past Al Gore's.

We do our best for the world's poor. Perhaps our aid budgets are not as large as they could be, but we do what we can. Wrong.

GD'lerin (transjenik, genetik bakımdan değiştirilmiş gıda) ticari tarımına izin verilirse ne olur? Bunu anlamak için 1997'de geniş ovalarında GD tarımına başlayan Kanada'ya gitmek gerek.

The lesson of their experience is that co-existence between conventional and GM farming is a mirage

Americans are used to resentment of their global dominance. Since the war on Iraq, however, this hostility has begun to hit them where it hurts: in corporate balance sheets.

Falsehoods Ranging from Exaggeration to Plain Untruth Were Used to Make the Case for War. More Lies are Being Used in the Aftermath

The 'evidence' that Iraq sought uranium from Niger was crucial in persuading the public of the case for war * Letters suggesting Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium for use in a nuclear weapons programme were exposed as forgeries in March * The CIA and State Department were dismissing the Niger

Serious doubts were raised yesterday about whether Saddam Hussein possessed the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) on which Tony Blair and George Bush rested their case for war in Iraq.

The legal and political basis for the war in Iraq was thrown into doubt yesterday when Jack Straw declared that uncovering Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was "not crucially important".

By ancestry, I was born to rule. Sisulu helped me understand my real vocation to be a servant of the people

Nuclear terrorism, engineered viruses, rogue machines ? technology is throwing up all kinds of new apocalyptic threats. So, asks the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, can our planet survive?

Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, launched a vitriolic attack on Robert Fisk of The Independent yesterday, claiming there was no conclusive proof US cruise missiles had bombed markets in Baghdad.

Robert Fisk has a proud record of reporting what he sees. He has travelled to dangerous places and described unflinchingly what is happening. He prefers to speak to the people caught up in conflicts rather than report what the generals, politicians and spokesmen are saying.

You do not have the evidence. You do not have UN approval. You do not have your country's support. You do not have your party's support. You do not have the legal right. You do not have the moral right. You must not drag Britain into Bush's unjust and unnecessary war

When the history of the Iraqi crisis of 2003 is finally written, what future generations may find most extraordinary is the absence of any political or diplomatic preparation for it.

The arrival in Greece of the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose party recently won a landslide victory, is symbolic of a new mood of goodwill between Athens and Ankara.

The resolution to be adopted by the UN Security Council will give an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that will lead to his political emasculation if he complies or the crushing of his regime by military means if he does not.

We reject the weapons of mass deception that are being deployed to mobilise public opinion into backing US bloodlust

The report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies is being promoted by the hawks in Washington and their supporters in Whitehall as providing "proof" that Saddam Hussein is just months away from launching a nuclear bomb.

A new report from the Government reveals how the increasingly luxurious lifestyles enjoyed by many Britons, and their reliance on ever-greater numbers of electrical appliances, have led to a spiralling rise in household energy consumption since 1970.

There is a growing hope that we are seeing the demise of an entire class of political antiques

The Turkish parliament voted last night to call an early general election at the beginning of November.

Not even last week's impressively evasive performance from the Prime Minister could conceal the fact that Tony Blair is caught with his feet on either side of a widening strategic divide.

A sea of brave faces being loyally worn by Yasser Arafat's aides yesterday failed to disguise the alarm and despondency felt by the Palestinians over President George Bush's Middle East policy speech.

The first evidence emerged yesterday of the scale of the carnage in Jenin refugee camp ­ an atrocity which could derail Colin Powell's Middle East peace mission.

'It amounts to an attack by a senior group of Israeli military officials on Mr Sharon ? an ex-colleague'