Matt Bivens has covered energy, environmental and nuclear issues for www.thenation.com and a range of other publications. A former editor of the Moscow Times, he recently returned to the United States after nine years reporting from Russia for publications including the Los Angeles Times and Harper’s. He was formerly the author of The Nation Online’s “Daily Outrage” weblog. click here to read those postings.
There's been scant notice of refugees being brutally driven out of Chechnya.
The thirteen self-declared "citizen weapons inspectors" marching down a rain-swept road just outside Baltimore knew they weren't going to be allowed inside the US military's Aberdeen Proving
New Mexico is on the verge of joining those happy few states that have acted to rein in the extreme influence of corporate money on US politics.
To the January ritual of reflecting on the old year and looking to the new, add the "top five" list of various 2001 nuclear events put together by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
The Department of Energy has hit upon a new idea for nuclear waste clean-up: just leave it there and declare the area a wildlife preserve. The animals won't complain.