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To Honor Dr. King Bring the Troops Home NOW!!
Friday, 27 August 2010, 10:53 am | Harvey Wasserman
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” is one of history’s greatest orations, as well as one of its most beautiful arias. More >>
Can "emergency" new nuke loans be stopped?
Friday, 2 July 2010, 1:54 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Amidst a grassroots uproar over funding for the military, the nuclear power industry has again forced $9 billion in loan guarantees onto an "emergency" war appropriations bill for Afghanistan and Iraq. More >>
Corporate Apocalypse vs. Solartopian Survival
Thursday, 17 June 2010, 12:22 pm | Harvey Wasserman
BP’s apocalyptic Gulf gusher has put our ability to survive in serious doubt. We have no reason to believe the end is near---or even in sight. Nor can we begin to calculate the damage to our Mother Earth…to her oceans, to the core of her being…and ... More >>
Apocalypse in the Gulf now (oil) & next (nukes)
Wednesday, 9 June 2010, 3:20 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As BP's ghastly gusher assaults the Gulf of Mexico and so much more, a tornado has forced shut the Fermi2 atomic reactor at the site of a 1966 melt-down that nearly irradiated the entire Great Lakes region . More >>
Will an "Emergency" Military Vote Fund More Nukes?
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 3:47 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, a shocking vote tomorrow (Thursday, May 27) may rush $9 billion worth of taxpayer guarantees into building three new nuclear power plants---two of them on that already tortured Gulf of Mexico. More >>
The Triple Curse of the Corporate Climate Bill
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 5:23 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Legend says curses come in threes. Let's pray that doesn't happen with the unholy trinity of the Corporate Climate Bill It demands drilling for oil, digging for coal and big money for new nukes. How such a devil's brew could help save the Earth conjures ... More >>
Nuke pushers to Vermont: "Drop Dead"
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 11:05 am | Harvey Wasserman
The nuclear power industry is sending a clear and forceful message to the citizens of Vermont: "Drop Dead." The greeting applies to Ohio, New York, California and a nation under assault from a "renaissance" so far hyped with more than $640 million ... More >>
$645M in lipstick for a dead radioactive pig
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 3:00 pm | Harvey Wasserman
There has been no deep, thoughtful re-making or re-evaluation of atomic technology. No solution to the nuke waste problem. No making reactors economically sound. No private insurance against radioactive disasters by terror or error. No grassroots ... More >>
Harvey Wasserman: Obama's atomic blunder
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 3:01 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss. In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done ... More >>
Will Obama guarantee a new reactor war?
Monday, 1 February 2010, 2:16 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vast expand a bitterly contested loan guarantee program that may cost far more than expected, both financially and politically. More >>
Harvey Wasserman: The Weimar Democrats
Friday, 22 January 2010, 1:57 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Massachusetts again reminds us why the Democrats are such losers. They are terminal schizophrenics, driven mad by the corporate dominance of American politics. They cannot govern and make significant change at the same time because the system is ... More >>
Harvey Wasserman: The tip of our great green leap
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 10:46 am | Harvey Wasserman
The epic fight over carbon emissions is barely the tip of how we survive. Mother Earth demands that fossil/nukes be transcended. This green-powered leap defines our technological, economic and ecological survival. More >>
Dana Lyons' Three Legged Coyote will cure ills
Monday, 7 December 2009, 11:52 am | Harvey Wasserman
If youre bummed by Obama, nagged by nukes and turned totally off by your TV, here's a happy holiday homeopathic: THREE LEGGED COYOTE, the soulful, irreverent and occasionally hilarious new DC by Dana Lyons. ( Lyons Brothers Music. www.cowswithguns.com ). More >>
What's the carbon/health footprint of another war?
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 4:12 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The Afghan War may now doom our ability both to cope with the global climate crisis and to fairly deliver health care in this country. If Barack Obama announces an escalation, Copenhagen and the Climate Bill will become meaningless. And the prospects for a ... More >>
Fluff & lies from the new nuke media machine
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 3:50 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors. The two are inseparable. In 1979, when TMI's brand new Unit Two melted, stack monitors and other critical ... More >>
Paul Krassner as our “Satirist-Laureate”
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 4:32 pm | Harvey Wasserman
It’s time our national government at last enshrines its most critical artistic need, that of “Satirist-Laureate.” The first nod must go to the man who has pioneered the idiom in modern America---Paul Krassner. Since the days of Lenny Bruce, Krassner ... More >>
Obama: one (term) if by war, two if by peace
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 11:26 am | Harvey Wasserman
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, a lethal myth has spread. It says that standing up to the military will doom him to be a single-term president. More >>
Hall of Fame benefit takes rock to a new level
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 1:11 pm | Harvey Wasserman
NEW YORK (with Gary Baumgarten and Abbie Wasserman) – Music history has been made with two uniquely powerful nights of performances at Madison Square Garden in celebration of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame---and the educational foundation it supports. More >>
Tom Friedman's "Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan?
Friday, 30 October 2009, 5:40 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The Iraq war's chief New York Times cheerleader has reversed field on Afghanistan. Does it mean there will be no escalation? In early 1968, after the devastating Tet Offense, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite pronounced the Vietnam War unwinnable. Lyndon ... More >>
Is the Climate Bill Being Fossil/Nuked?
Friday, 16 October 2009, 11:44 am | Harvey Wasserman
Is the Climate Bill morphing into an excuse to promote fossil fuels and new nuclear power plants? Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) recent promotion of a pro-nuke/pro-drilling/pro-coal agenda in the name of Climate Protection has been highlighted in a New York Times ... More >>
