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4 gorillas to save the Earth
The Greta/AOC generation is marching for our place on this planet. Continue reading
Pro-nuke holocaust denier Cory Booker must not be president
Senator Cory Booker has become a pro-nuke holocaust denier and must not be president or vice. Continue reading
40 ways Ohio now proposes nuclear suicide
A bought, gerrymandered Ohio legislature has just handed a much hated $150 million/year public bailout to two dinosaur nuke reactors primed to explode. Continue reading
The quake to make Los Angeles a radioactive dead zone…be afraid…be very afraid
Had Friday’s 7.1 earthquake and other ongoing seismic shocks hit less than 200 miles northwest of Ridgecrest/China Lake, ten million people in Los Angeles would now be under an apocalyptic cloud, their lives and those of the state and nation in radioactive ruin. Continue reading
We have a Trump because we have an empire
The man who would make himself dictator is with us because we have put so many like him in power in so many other places. Continue reading
Ohio’s ‘Chernobyl Socialism’ would hand $20 million to seven utility scammers
A huge proposed bailout of two Chernobyl-in-progress Ohio nukes (plus two old coal burners) would put $20 million directly into the pockets of seven utility executives. Their bankrupt company last year spent $3 million “lobbying” the legislature. Continue reading
Ohio stumbles, with a Team Trump nudge, toward nuclear and coal
Defying all laws of competitive economics, climate change, and technological progress, the Ohio House has voted in a ratepayer-funded bailout for two aging nuclear power plants on Lake Erie, and two even older coal burners, one in Indiana, but owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, based in Piketon. According to Politico, a senior adviser to the Trump reelection campaign, Bob Paduchik, pressured at least five members of the Ohio House of Representatives to vote “yes” on the bill. Continue reading
As reactors shut in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, nuke war rages in Ohio and New York
As the nuke power industry slumps toward oblivion, two huge reactors are shutting in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Continue reading
America’s ‘hole-in-the-head’ nuke suicide pact gets court approval
The Supreme Court has just now certified the deadliest and most economically destructive scam of the entire Trump catastrophe. Continue reading
Three Mile Island’s murderous legacy still threatens us all
Forty years ago on March 29, the Three Mile Island nuke began pouring lethal radiation into our air and water, lungs and livers. Continue reading
How Fukushima nukes kill our climate, our planet, ourselves
Eight years ago on March 11, apocalyptic radiation clouds began pouring out of Fukushima. Continue reading
Trump’s ‘emergency’ is about his criminality, NOT the wall
The “Desperado in Chief” wants—NEEDS!!—a diversionary “national” emergency. Continue reading
The Democrats have nowhere to go but left
The Democratic Party has nowhere to go but left. Continue reading
Is Michael Cohen Trumputin’s dead meat? Are we?
In the Trumputin world of organized crime, Michael Cohen has committed the ultimate betrayal: he’s helped Robert Mueller prove beyond doubt that don Putin in the Kremlin put his very own bagman into the White House. Continue reading
The two magical words that could have Trump gone by Earth Day
Our long-awaited “Mueller Time” has filled the punditocracy with tales of collusion and delusion. But most have missed the two-word trapdoor through which Donald Trump is likeliest to fall. Continue reading
Grassroots resistance must destroy Trump’s “RED WALL” of fraud and theft
Trump’s November 6 blitzkrieg depends on stripping our right to vote and flipping the vote count. Continue reading
Will the Caravan Coup be Trump’s ‘October Surprise’ & Reichstag Fire to cap a week of horror?
Treasonous “October Surprises” gave Republicans the presidency in 1968 and 1980. A staged 1933 Reichstag fire gave Hitler his dictatorship. Continue reading
I will be a poll worker November 6th—will you?
A Trumpist victory this November 6 could strike a terrible blow to American democracy, and to our ability to survive on this planet. Continue reading
Trump’s Space Force: Military profiteering’s final frontier
‘The heavens are going to be littered with radioactive debris.’
The commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, has announced a new mission into the realm of martial excess. It is one is that will surely enrich the aerospace industry while spreading the global battlefield to a new dimension. Continue reading
57 unpatriotic ways the Corp/Dems have enthroned Trumputin
As we celebrated our nation’s birth, and organize to once again overthrow an illegitimate tyrant, we might pity Trump’s classic liberal enabler, Al Dershowitz. Continue reading
Supreme Court approves fascist assault on Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Japanese-Americans, whoever . . . prepare for your very own concentration cam
The US Supreme Court has approved Donald Trump’s presumed dictatorial power to ban and imprison any would-be immigrant group he does not like. Continue reading
Immigrants & Muslims are Trump’s Jews . . . until he comes for the actual Jews
Make no mistake: Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions’ assault on immigrant families and their “tactic” of separating parents from their children are right out of the Nazi playbook. Continue reading
Trump has plenty of accomplices in his reckless energy policies
Some 360,000 Americans now work in the solar industry, more than in nukes and coal combined. In fact, more Americans are now working in California’s solar industry than are digging coal nationwide. And the U.S. wind business now employs more than 100,000 people. Continue reading
Puerto Rico goes back door to Solartopia and the corporate media black it out
Puerto Rico has made history by becoming—briefly—the largest US territory or state to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy. Continue reading
Trump’s ‘policies’ on guns, drugs, Puerto Rico, golf, Mueller and Russian election theft are all about mob money
Donald Trump’s sole “philosophy” is personal profit. His real “party” is the mob. His mafia “don,” Vladimir Putin, is the world’s #1 crime boss. For the pair of them, the issues of the day all boil down to one: cash flow. Continue reading
It’s time to deal with Trumputin’s Second Amendment idiocy
My beloved childhood friend, someone I’ve known since before elementary school, has lost his grandson in the latest Florida shooting. Continue reading
Warring visions of Puerto Rico’s future
Will it be Singapore or Solartopia?
Warring visions have now erupted over the energy and economic futures of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Continue reading
Earthquake risk keeps heat on vulnerable nuclear reactors
A proposal by a California administrative law judge has given safe energy advocates new hope that two Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors will be shut before an earthquake on the San Andreas fault turns them to rubble, potentially threatening millions of people. Continue reading
Fascism fails in Virginia—is Alabama next?
Steve Bannon’s attempted fascist putsch in Virginia and New Jersey has failed. Continue reading
Can Democrats stop Virginia, Alabama elections from being stolen?
Donald Trump’s primary enablers, the corporate Democrats, may be poised to blow it again in upcoming elections in Virginia on Nov. 7 and Alabama on Dec. 12. Continue reading
PG&E threatens nuke holocaust while Sacramento fiddles
Posted on October 16, 2019 by Harvey Wasserman
Why is a bankrupt utility being forced to black itself out still running two atomic reactors that could destroy California? Continue reading →