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A $50 Billion nuke power bomb is dropping
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:51 am | Harvey Wasserman
The desperate, dangerous nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion stealth bomb meant to irradiate the Obama Stimulus Package. It comes in the form of a mega-loan guarantee package that would build new reactors Wall Street wouldn’t finance even ... More >>
A Solartopian Starter Agenda For Obama
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 12:30 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Amidst the ecstasy of the Obama Inauguration, there lurks great danger. Merely with his swearing in, our nation has broken an epic racial barrier. We are losing our worst president and getting one who was actually elected. More >>
"No We Won't" to nuke power
Friday, 7 November 2008, 11:35 pm | Harvey Wasserman
As the world media filled with the victory of Barack Obama, a defeat for atomic power in his own back yard sent a Solartopian message to the new administration. More >>
My daughters and I have cast paper ballots
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 1:56 pm | Harvey Wasserman
My daughters and I have cast paper ballots in the opening days of the 2008 presidential election. It was their first time voting in a presidential election. More >>
A towering Solartopian victory against nuke power
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 3:29 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The grassroots green energy movement has won a huge---but temporary---victory over the nuke power industry. More >>
McCain's Michigan melt-down madness
Monday, 11 August 2008, 12:00 am | Harvey Wasserman
Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power. More >>
Reactor revival is NOT ready for prime time
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 6:16 pm | Harvey Wasserman
A devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of atomic power has been delivered by an unlikely source---the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC says the "standardized" designs on which the entire premise of returning nuclear power to center stage is ... More >>
Al Gore inches toward Solartopia
Sunday, 20 July 2008, 7:01 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Bit by bit, Al Gore seems to be inching toward a Solartopian view of a future that must be completely sustainable in green energy. This week he advocated getting to an electric power system that is "carbon free" within ten years. More >>
Bush/McCain's gas price scam is an Enron re-run
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 6:01 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The Bush/McCain gas price escalation is an Enron Re-Run. It is Chapter 2 of the scam Bush crony "Kenny Boy" Lay used in 1999-2001 to steal $100 billion from California ratepayers. More >>
Putting John Edwards on the Supreme Court
Monday, 26 May 2008, 9:21 am | Harvey Wasserman
As the end game for the Democratic nomination takes shape, the historic union of the feminist and civil rights movements has never been more in evidence. Nor has the next upcoming appointment to the US Supreme Court ever been more pivotal. More >>
Obama: the Jackie Robinson of the US Presidency?
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 11:29 am | Harvey Wasserman
Sixty-one years ago, a truly great athlete broke the color line in America’s "National Pastime," which still resides near the core of our culture. More >>
Harvey Wasserman: Florida At Radioactive Brink?
Friday, 29 February 2008, 5:42 pm | Harvey Wasserman
New reactor construction at Turkey Point would have substantial environmental impacts on the nearby Everglades National Park. Serious questions remain about pressure put on water supplies, damage to nearby wildlife habitat, and much more. More >>
H. Wasserman: How Swing State Ohio Got Nuked
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 3:43 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Once a great industrial heartland, Ohio's rust belt status has been solidified by billions in excess electric rates driven by four nuclear reactors, and by the state government's inability to make way for a green-powered future. More >>
Will Congress plunge us into the nuke power abyss?
Monday, 17 December 2007, 12:39 am | Harvey Wasserman
In a victory for green power, a massive grassroots/internet campaign forced removal from the national Energy Bill of blank check loan guarantees to build atomic reactors. More >>
Two critical green victories hang in the balance
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 10:45 am | Harvey Wasserman
The eyes of the world are now on the US Senate. Our oil-endangered species anxiously awaits even a tiny American step toward fighting global warming and saving the planetary environment. More >>
Will Congress make taxpayers fund nuke reactors?
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:45 am | Harvey Wasserman
Within a matter of days Congressional back-room deals may rubber stamp huge taxpayer loan guarantees to build dozens of what amount to pre-deployed "dirty bombs" for terrorists. More >>
Harvey Wasserman: Nukes are back and so are we
Sunday, 21 October 2007, 1:58 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The nuclear power industry is back to where it always goes when it wants to build new reactors---the taxpayer trough. And those of us who've been fighting them for decades are doing it again, now with help from the musicians' community, and a petition ... More >>
Genius Who Diagnosed Nuke Power Deadly Disease
Saturday, 8 September 2007, 3:53 pm | Harvey Wasserman
The nuke power industry now wants $50 billion and more in loan guarantees to build new atomic reactors. As it strong-arms Congress, the warnings of the great Dr. John Gofman, who passed away last week at 88, loom ever larger. More >>
Astonishing tower collapse screams "No New Nukes!!
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 10:23 am | Harvey Wasserman
A broken 54" pipe there has spewed 350,000 gallons per minute of contaminated, overheated water into the Earth. "The river water piping and the series of screens and supports failed," said a company spokesman. They "fell to the ground." More >>
The Senate's radioactive rip-off
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 10:21 am | Harvey Wasserman
Gargantuan loan guarantees for a "new generation" of nuke reactors define the Senate's version of the Energy Bill that Congress will consider right after Labor Day. More >>
