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That Nobel screams: "Out of Afghanistan..."
Monday, 12 October 2009, 12:51 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Above the din, the Nobel message screams: "U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, & GO FOR SOLARTOPIA!" It's now up to US to use that Nobel to win that dual prize. This award never went to two of the most critical peacemakers of the 20th Century: Mahatma Gandhi, who ... More >>
Obama Will Also Lose the Afghani Olympics
Monday, 5 October 2009, 1:57 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The stunning rejection of Barack Obama's play for the Chicago Olympics had better teach him a good lesson about escalating in Afghanistan. Ignoring fierce grassroots resistance in Chicago itself, the Obamas flew to Copenhagen to "persuade" the International ... More >>
Harvey Wasserman: Obama's LBJ moment
Monday, 28 September 2009, 3:27 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Lyndon Johnson was once on the verge of becoming one of America's greatest presidents. But with a single wrong turn into Vietnam, LBJ plunged himself and the nation into a ghastly tragedy that still makes us all weep and bleed. More >>
Corporate Supremes to dance on democracy's corpse?
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 2:26 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The Four Courtsmen of the Apocalypse are poised to finally bury American democracy in corporate money. The most powerful institution in human history---the global corporation---may soon take definitive possession of our electoral process. More >>
Obama has fed his Green Jones to King CONG
Monday, 7 September 2009, 4:51 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Van Jones has been fed to King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas). Obama’s one serious green bright spot been sacrificed at the McCarthyite altar of the corporate bloviation machine. The brilliant, charismatic Jones was responsible for the administration’s ... More >>
The clock ticks ever faster for Leonard Peltier
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 5:04 pm | Harvey Wasserman
By Tuesday, August 18, the four sitting members of the Federal Parole Commission must decide whether they will let Leonard Peltier rejoin his family. Leonard has been in prison for a staggering 33 years, six more than Nelson Mandela. When he was ... More >>
How Leonard Peltier could leave prison by August
Friday, 31 July 2009, 11:42 am | Harvey Wasserman
For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul. More >>
We all stand before Leonard Peltier’s Parole Board
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 12:23 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been in prison for more than 12,226 days, more than 33 years, certainly one of the longest ordeals of any political prisoner in human history. More >>
Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & "Lamar's Folly"
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 9:35 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The accolades are still pouring in for departed anchorman Walter Cronkite. Few mention his critical "that's the way it is" reporting on the atomic melt-down at Three Mile Island. Yet Cronkite and TMI are at the core of today's de facto moratorium on new ... More >>
T. Paine: California Should Pay Its People in Pot
Monday, 13 July 2009, 1:31 pm | Harvey Wasserman
California’s state finances have gone to pot, and that’s what it should use to pay its employees. Right now the state is issuing I.O.U.’s to those who work for it. Sacramento says they are worth the paper they’re printed on, but most Californians ... More >>
Big Nuke's desperate radioactive hoax
Monday, 22 June 2009, 11:25 am | Harvey Wasserman
Job-starved southern Ohioans are being promised a shiny new nuclear plant. But the announcement has come with a cruel reminder, and the scent of a desperate hoax. More >>
The GOP’s trillion $ energy plan goes radioactive
Friday, 12 June 2009, 12:05 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As the prospective price of new reactors continues to soar, and as the first “new generation” construction projects sink in French and Finnish soil, Republicans are introducing a bill to Congress demanding 100 new nuclear reactors in the US within ... More >>
The 8 green steps to Solartopia
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 11:15 am | Harvey Wasserman
The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us. Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, it has a solution, the solution is winnable, and winning requires a "middle path" of action that is ... More >>
How Chernobyl could happen in the US
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 10:13 am | Harvey Wasserman
A catastrophe like Chernobyl could happen here. It's the radioactive core of the second biggest lie in US industrial history. More >>
Yet another $50 billion for rust-bucket nukes?
Monday, 13 April 2009, 11:31 am | Harvey Wasserman
The nuke power industry is back at the public trough for the fourth time in two years demanding $50 billion in loan guarantees to build new reactors. More >>
The Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Is.
Friday, 3 April 2009, 11:00 am | Harvey Wasserman
Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed by a whisker. They both killed people. But thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-down, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate media and the alternatives, with nuclear power at its ... More >>
Is this the end of the age of the automobile?
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 2:10 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad. But the larger picture says that the financial crisis now enveloping the world is grounded in the transition from the automobile-- -and the fossils that ... More >>
Potential jet crash at nuke reactors un-addressed
Monday, 23 February 2009, 10:11 am | Harvey Wasserman
The ever-vigilant Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued milestone regulations requiring the builders of new nuke reactors More >>
Why Is $50 Bn Radioactive Toilet In Stimulus Bill?
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 12:58 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The infamous $50 billion nuke power loan guarantee package meant to use your money to build new nuke reactors has gone missing from saturation media coverage of Obama’s Stimulus Package. But it’s still in the Senate version of the bill, it could be ... More >>
A $50 Billion Nuke Debate At Democracy NOW!
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 10:19 pm | Harvey Wasserman
AMY GOODMAN: A coalition of environmental groups are calling on senators to remove a controversial provision from the $900 billion stimulus bill that could lead to the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants. We host a debate between ... More >>
