How Fallujah Became the Iraqi Government’s New Battleground
The Real News interviews Dahr on “how the Iraqi city of Fallujah went from welcoming intervention to fighting the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
View ArticleRadiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site Highlights Problems
A recent fire and radiation release at New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) uranium repository has brought renewed focus on the problem of what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive...
View ArticleThe Vanishing Arctic Ice Cap
An Arctic largely devoid of ice, giant methane outbursts causing tsunamis in the North Atlantic, and global sea levels rising by several meters by mid-century sound like the stuff of science fiction....
View ArticleEvidence of Acceleration of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption on All Fronts
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” — Sioux Proverb This month’s dispatch comes on the heels of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recent report, and the news...
View ArticleInternational Lawyers Seek Justice for Iraqis
International lawyers and activists converged at a conference titled The Iraq Commission, in Brussels, Belgium, April 16 and 17, with the primary aim of bringing to justice government officials who are...
View ArticleBP: Four Years On, No Restoration in Sight
Joe Yerkes is a Florida fisherman who joined BP’s Vessels of Opportunity (VOO) oil cleanup program because he was put out of work by BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Following the 2010...
View ArticleOn Bringing War Criminals to Justice
This is part II of a series on Dahr Jamail’s trip to the Iraq Commission conference in Brussels. Also see Part I: International Lawyers Seek Justice for Iraqis. Narmeen Saleh and her husband Shawki...
View ArticleNew Mexico Governor Martinez Accused of “Wholesale Disregard of the Law”
Tracy Hughes was a career employee in the New Mexico Environment Department who was just three months away from being eligible for retirement when she was fired by an appointee of New Mexico Governor...
View Article“Devastating” Impacts of Climate Change Increasing
“One does not sell the land people walk on.” — Crazy Horse A massive collapse of an ice sheet in Western Antarctica has begun and, according to scientists, is most likely an unstoppable event that will...
View ArticleOn Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture
It was February 2005, and after several months of front-line reporting from Iraq, I’d returned to the US a human time bomb of rage, my temper ticking shorter each day. Walking through morgues in...
View ArticleMelting Polar Caps a “Ticking Timebomb” for Earth’s Climate System
Dahr interviewed on TheRealNews.com with Professor Peter Wadhams.
View ArticleWill Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster?
The idea of storing radioactive nuclear waste inside a hollowed-out salt cavern might look good on paper. The concept is to carve out the insides of the caverns, deep underground, then carefully move...
View ArticleDahr Interviewed on “Will Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster”
Dahr was interviewed on June 10, 2014, by Flashpoints on KPFA, Berkeley, regarding his story for Truthout on fracking near the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico. You can listen to the...
View ArticleAtmospheric CO2 Crosses “Ominous Threshold”
Despite the widespread governmental denial of anthropogenic climate disruption, many signs indicate we are already past the point of no return, headed toward a “dead planet.” “I am poor and naked, but...
View ArticleFormer NASA Chief Scientist: ‘We’re Effectively Taking a Sledgehammer to the...
“You really have to work to not believe it,” Dr. Waleed Abdalati says of anthropomorphic climate disruption (ACD, also known as climate change). He should know: More than 20 years ago, Abdalati began...
View ArticleSalvadoran Farmers Successfully Oppose the Use of Monsanto Seeds
Farmers across El Salvador united to block a stipulation in a US aid package to their country that would have indirectly required the purchase of Monsanto genetically modified (GM) seeds. Thousands of...
View ArticleA Nation on the Brink: How US Policies Sealed Iraq’s Fate
In a Truthout and TomDispatch collaboration, Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail has written a searing analysis covering the ongoing disaster in Iraq. Jamail has covered the story extensively for both...
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