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Harvey Wasserman : The Demand for a Global Takeover at Fukushima
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s reactor building number 4 seen in aerial view on July 5, 2012. Photo by Kyodo / Reuters. The demand for a global takeover at Fukushima has hit critical mass Since the March 11, 2011, earthquake … Continue reading
Jonah Raskin : In the Wake of Sandy
The Rag Blog’s Jonah Raskin in post-Sandy Far Rockaway, New York.In the wake of Sandy:An interview with Far Rockaway community organizer Ofelia Mangen ‘I think Sandy is a human disaster. We’re the disaster, not nature. We created it. If you … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : Countdown to Nuclear Disaster
Political cartoon by Olle Johansson, Sweden / Cagle Cartoons.Countdown to disaster:Fukushima spews, Los Alamos burns,Vermont rages, and we’ve almost lost Nebraska By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / June 29, 2011 Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Fukushima, Harvey Wasserman, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Accidents
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Jordan Flaherty : Rising Anxiety on the Gulf Coast
Many residents have been forced from their homes as a spillway is opened to protect major cities from the flood. Photo by Gallo / Getty / Al Jazeera.One disaster after another:Mississippi flood renews Gulf Coast anxietiesBy Jordan Flaherty / The … Continue reading
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Tagged Flooding, Gulf Coast, Jordan Flaherty, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Natural Disasters, New Orleans
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Harvey Wasserman : Let’s Join Japan in Junking New Nukes
Workers cycle past a nuclear power plant on a tricycle cart in Changchun, in northeast China’s Jilin province, Dec. 17, 2010. Japan and Germany are limiting or phasing out reliance on nuclear power after the Fukushima accident. Photo from AP.We’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Harvey Wasserman, Japan Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Power
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Emily Hellewell : Public Radio and the West Texas Wildfires
The Southwest Incident Management Team conducted burnouts April 19 near the McDonald Observatory in far west Texas. Photo by Frank Cianciolo / McDonald Observatory / Marfa Public Radio.Why public radio maters:Marfa station is critical resourceduring west Texas wildfires By Emily … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadcast Media, Marfa, Natural Disasters, NPR, Public Radio, West Texas
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Harvey Wasserman : End Nuclear Power Before It Ends Us
Environmental activists, wearing ghost masks to symbolize victims of a nuclear meltdown, demonstrate near the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines, Tuesday March 15, 2011. Photo from AP.End nuclear power before it ends us For 25 years the nuclear industry has … Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, Energy, Harvey Wasserman, Japan Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Power, World History
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Ted McLaughlin : The Japan Quake and Nuclear Power
Explosion at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi No 1 plant following Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. Image from Reuters.After the Japan quake:We must rethink nuclear power By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 13, 2011 By now everyone knows about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Japan Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Power, Peak Oil, Ted McLaughlin
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Harvey Wasserman : California Quake Hit Could Irradiate Entire Country
The Fukushima No. 1 power plant of Tokyo Electric Power at Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, shown in a photograph from October 2008. Japan has issued a state of emergency at the nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed. … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Harvey Wasserman, Japan Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Nuclear Contamination, Nuclear Power
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Ansel Herz : Cholera Spreads in Haiti
Above, MINUSTAH soldier points his gun at former Austin activist/independent journalist Ansel Herz in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 15, 2010, at a demonstration against the renewal of MINUSTAH, the UN peackeeping mission. Photo from Gaentantguevara / Flickr. For more about … Continue reading
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Tagged Ansel Herz, Caribbean, Contagious Disease, Earthquake, Haiti, Medicine, Natural Disasters, Poverty, United Nations
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Wanted in Rio : ‘Prophets of Ecology’
Landslide in Mangueira shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after a 17 hour downpour that ended on April 6, 2010, resulting in death and devastation. Photo by Marcelo Sayao / EPA.High water in Rio:‘Prophets of ecology’ would save lives By … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Ecology, Flooding, Leonardo Boff, Natural Disasters, Rio de Janeiro, Theology
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Ansel Herz : Haiti Looking More Like a War Zone
Woman walks along hurricane-devastated street in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Photo by Jorge Saenz / AP.Haiti today: Looking more and more like a war zone “The U.N. is a big, huge, heavy bureaucracy. And bureaucracies do not work well … Continue reading
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Tagged Ansel Herz, Earthquake, Haiti, Natural Disasters, United Nations
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