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Greenpeace Founder Does Nuclear U-Turn

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2006 The man who helped found the environmental aid organization argues that nuclear power--once his sworn enemy--is now the planet's only hope for slowing global warming. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N.Y. Times on Bush: A Bad Leak

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2006 The New York Times editorial page writes that "even a president cannot wave a wand and announce that an intelligence report is declassified." Also, check out how Editor & Publisher handily took down the Washington Post editorial board's defense of the leak. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McClellan Still Ducking Queries on Weapons Trailers

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 The presidential spokesman won't say at what point the president learned of a Pentagon report which concluded that Iraqi weapons trailers discovered after the invasion were not--as Bush later claimed--WMD factories. No wonder McClellan won't answer. This could amount to proof positive that Bush outright lied about WMD. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McClellan Wants Media to Apologize for Trailers Story

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 The White House spokesman said news networks should apologize for reporting on the Washington Post's story about the phony Iraqi weapons trailers. But when reporters quizzed him on what Bush knew and when he knew it, McClellan ducked the question. Dig deeper

PETA Exposes Taser Tests on Pigs

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 The animal rights organization has obtained video footage of pigs being stunned with Taser guns as part of a Pentagon nonlethal weapons testing program. (This video is not for the queasy.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran Joins the Nuclear Club, Moves Toward Large-Scale Enrichment

Blair Golson / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 Tehran successfully enriched uranium for the first time on Tuesday, and signaled its intention to expand the program rapidly. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Pushed Discredited Iraqi Weapons Trailers Claim

Staff / Truthdig Apr 12, 2006 Bush claimed that two small trailers found after the invasion of Iraq vindicated his claim of banned WMDs--but intelligence officials had already concluded that the trailers were bogus. The Washington Post has the scoop. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Forgers’ of Niger Uranium Contract Named

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2006 Remember the uranium ore that Hussein supposedly purchased from Niger? A contract documenting the sale was used as evidence of the need to invade Iraq and was included in a 2002 U.S. State Department fact sheet on Iraq's weapons program. Remember how the IAEA denounced the documents as fakes shortly before the invasion of Iraq? Well, according to the Times Online, the forgers have finally been named. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Was Warned Repeatedly on Aluminum Tubes

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2006 Karl Rove kept the public from knowing before the 2004 election that Bush had been apprised "directly and repeatedly" that Saddam's infamous aluminum tubes might have been for conventional--not nuclear--weapons. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )