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Thirty Years and Counting : Radioactive News from Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island. Graphic from The Infrastructurist.The new nuke media machine:Fluff, lies and radiation from TMI By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 25, 2009 Yet another “perfectly safe” release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another … Continue reading
Nuke ‘Renaissance’ : Same Old, Same Old
Not looking so good:Much-hyped nuclear renaissance ‘If history repeats itself as farce, then the nuclear power industry represents the most incompetent jester of all time…’ By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 12, 2009 The much-hyped “renaissance” of … Continue reading
The U.S. and Iran : A Manufactured Crisis?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Art by Ben Heine © Cartoons / DesertPeace.The new crisis in Iran:The facts and the allegations As intended, the hyped disclosure created headlines around the world. It probably convinced many Americans, already primed to detest Iran, … Continue reading
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Going Nuclear : Tom Friedman’s ‘Idiocy Atomique’
‘Green Advocate’ Tom Friedman is nuclear booster In denial verging on psychosis, Friedman says France has ‘managed to deal with all the radioactive waste issues without any problems or panic.’ By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / September 22, … Continue reading
Walter Cronkite and the Meltdown at Three Mile Island
CBS anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the catastrophic meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, March 28, 1979.Walter Cronkite, Three Mile Island and ‘Lamar’s Folly’ in the Climate Bill The nation — the world — cannot afford more Three … Continue reading
Ohio : Big Nuke’s Desperate Radioactive Hoax
Proposed nuke site in Ohio. Photo from AP. Southern Ohioans are good people who deserve jobs and a real economic future. No matter how much Big Nuke spends on them, rushed high-profile corporate announcements touting a doomed technology can only … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : The GOP’s Radioactive Nuclear Power Plan
A portion of a cooling tower at Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt, just after its collapse in August 2007. Earlier this year Vermont Yankee cut its power back 60% due to a radioactive leak.The GOP’s 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : Big Troubles for Big Nuke
Nuclear reactor fiasco in Oikiluoto, Finland. Four years under construction; defects multiply and price tag keeps climbing. Photo by Henna Aaltonen / The International Herald Tribune.The New York Times finally reports the economic disaster of new nukes Despite the torrent … Continue reading
Death at Three Mile Island : The Corporate Media’s Iron Curtain
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, 1979. 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 center. By Harvey Wasserman / April 1, 2009 Chernobyl … Continue reading
Iran: No Nuclear Weapons Program, PERIOD
The continued US fear-mongering, as enumerated at the top of Jeffrey Lewis’ article should stop. Iran is not demonstrably pursuing a program to develop nuclear weapons. There is also no evidence whatsoever that Iran intends to start such a weapons … Continue reading
Expert: Nuclear Power Is Too Risky and Expensive
A nuclear power plant on Lake Erie, in Michigan. © mandj98 (flickr)Nukenomics no longer add up.By Brittany Schell / October 31, 2008 WASHINGTON — Nuclear power is a risky source of energy that comes with many hidden costs, said an … Continue reading
Iran, Nuclear Research, and the American Press
What I would like to know is why all these analysts and pundits cannot take Iran at face value when they claim they are interested in developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Despite my deep misgivings about such pursuits owing … Continue reading
