Imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Abdolfattah Soltani has started a hunger strike.

James Hansen calls for development of "safe nuclear power".

I respect him, but that is easier said than done. Some of the dangers would be addressed by using Thorium, but not all.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was given for unfounded economic hypotheses that economists like to believe because they support right-wing conclusions.

An organization of doctors says the US government told doctors and psychologists to participate in torture of prisoners.

Morsi, on trial, condemned the military coup.

He may very well be guilty of some crime, but the military's crimes are so much bigger that they make this trial absurd. The Muslim Brotherhood advocates disrespect for human rights (for instance, the right to change from being a Muslim to being anything else), but shooting protesters dead on the street is also violating human rights.