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Obama's Atomic Solyndra?
Thursday, 19 April 2012, 12:58 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama---and us. His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders who cannot handle the standard terms of a loan agreement. More >>
Harvey Wasserman: Court to Vermont:
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 12:41 pm | Harvey Wasserman
In 2003 Entergy made a deal with the state of Vermont. The Louisiana-based nuke speculator said that if it could buy and operate the decrepit Vermont Yankee reactor under certain terms and conditions, the company would then agree to shut it down if the state denied ... More >>
2012 is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power
Wednesday, 4 January 2012, 11:48 am | Harvey Wasserman
The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima's radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study( http://nukefree.org/mangano-sherman-text-report-fukushima-deaths-us ) More >>
Stories We Will Still Have to Write in 2012
Monday, 2 January 2012, 11:34 am | Harvey Wasserman
In January 2009, with a new president about to be inaugurated, we wrote a column about the stories we preferred not having to write, but knew we would Three years later, we are still writing about those problems; three years from now, we’ll still ... More >>
Has America’s stolen election process hit prime time?
Monday, 2 January 2012, 11:32 am | Harvey Wasserman
It took two stolen US Presidential elections and the prospect of another one coming up in 2012. For years the Democratic Party and even much of the left press has reacted with scorn for those who’ve reported on it. More >>
Our future depends on stopping an attack on Iran
Monday, 21 November 2011, 1:54 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The global Occupy Movement has come to life just in time. War is the health of the corporate state. The 1% needs its endless cash flow to stay in power. As the slaughters in Iraq and Afghanistan transform into something less visible, the 1% war machine ... More >>
An 11/11 masterpiece cries out for peace
Monday, 14 November 2011, 3:21 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As the numerologists note our arrival at 11/11/11, our attention is better focused on this day as the anniversary of the end of the useless, worthless, horrifying war that turned so much of 20th Century into a twisted, violent mess. More >>
Where Occupy & No Nukes merge & win!!!
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 12:26 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing---and saving---the world. Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed. More >>
Will a Failed Solar Loan Guarantee Kill New Nukes?
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:09 am | Harvey Wasserman
Republicans up in arms about the infamous failed federal $535 million loan guarantee for the Solyndra solar panel producer are finally tasked to apply the same standards to nuclear power. If that happens, there will be no more commercial reactors built ... More >>
Can we stop the next Fukushima times 10,000?
Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 1:39 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the archipelago, deep into the ocean and around the globe---including the US. It will ultimately impact ... More >>
Green Music Again Confronts Atomic Power
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 3:54 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Amidst a life-and-death struggle to finally shut the nuclear energy industry, the power of green music flows again this Sunday. It's also pouring over the Internet, as the historic all-day MUSE2 gathering is staged at the Shoreline Amphitheatre south ... More >>
Don't Nuke the Budget
Sunday, 31 July 2011, 8:08 pm | Harvey Wasserman
America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Yet Congress and the White House may still want to use our money for fund atomic ... More >>
Don't Nuke the Budget!
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 5:55 pm | Harvey Wasserman
America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Yet Congress and the White House may still want to use our money to fund atomic power. More >>
Don't Nuke the Budget!
Friday, 29 July 2011, 5:08 pm | Harvey Wasserman
America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Yet Congress and the White House may still want to use our money for fund atomic ... More >>
Fukushima Spews, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska
Friday, 1 July 2011, 3:45 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it -- at least ... More >>
Fukushima Spews, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska
Friday, 1 July 2011, 3:44 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it -- at least ... More >>
Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Forever?
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 2:49 pm | Harvey Wasserman
To be sure: we are still required to fight hard to bury reactor loan guarantees in the United States. There are parallel struggles in China, Indian, England, France and South Korea. More >>
Nukes to America:"We Don't Need No Stinking Fire Protection"
Friday, 10 June 2011, 3:49 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Investigations by the New York News and others show Indian Point's fire detection and suppression systems to be woefully inadequate. "Indian Point's ongoing failure to comply with federal fire safety requirements is both reckless and unacceptable," ... More >>
Is Fukushima now ten Chernobyls into the sea?
Friday, 27 May 2011, 11:35 am | Harvey Wasserman
New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. More >>
America's new nuke showdown starts NOW!
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 10:17 am | Harvey Wasserman
As Fukushima continues to leak and smolder, what may be the definitive battle over new nukes in America has begun. The critical first US House vote on a proposed $36 billion loan guarantee package for reactor construction may come as early as June ... More >>
