Truthout

Is nuclear power the only way to halt catastrophic global warming? Not if the world puts in a concerted effort towards energy efficiency and renewables.

Sgt. Benderman is not a hero because he served a tour of duty in the Occupation of Iraq, though he did. By Hon. Cynthia McKinney

CIA's close relationship with Sudan's government enables genocide there to continue. By Nat Hentoff

In the wake of World War II, America set up its own system of triangular trade, because we had most of the working industrial base of the world. By Stirling Newberry

In a stunning blow to the Bush administration, a Navy judge gave Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes no jail time for refusing orders to board the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard before it left San Diego with 3,000 sailors and Marines bound for the Persian Gulf on December 6th.

Cornerstone environmental law, NEPA, under fire in energy bill. By Amanda Griscom Little

A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that US intelligence data supported his policy. By Warren P.

In 1973, the Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that a Texas law criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional. The due process clause, the Court said, protects the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. By Marjorie Cohn

Interview with Ghasib Hassan, member of the executive committee of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, and general secretary of the Union for Aviation and Railway Workers. By David Bacon

"I am a geo-green," says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has written a series of columns expounding his "geo-green" stance. Geo-greens, he says, combine geopolitics with green strategies - specifically in the context of the Middle East and terrorism. By Kelpie Wilson

Something about anniversaries prods us to pause and reflect on what's transpired in the intervening time. March 20 is the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and it's a good time to consider what's happened since then. By Joseph L. Galloway

Halliburton, under scrutiny for its contracts in Iraq, would receive an extra $1.5 billion as part of the Bush administration's additional war spending proposal for fiscal 2005, a senior US Army budget official said.