Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal. Continue reading
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Fukushima is still a disaster
The corporate media silence on Fukushima has been deafening even though the melted down nuclear power plant’s seaborne radiation is now washing up on American beaches. Continue reading
The New York Times pens an “epitaph” for nuke power
In support of the dying nuclear power industry, the New York Times Editorial Board has penned an inadvertent epitaph. Continue reading
UN panel: Renewables, not nukes, can solve climate crisis
The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has left zero doubt that we humans are wrecking our climate. Continue reading
Fighting our fossil-nuke extinction
The 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster has brought critical new evidence that petro-pollution is destroying our global ecosystem. Continue reading
Solartopia! Winning the green energy revolution
High above the Bowling Green town dump, a green energy revolution is being won. Continue reading
The nuclear omnicide
In the 35 years since the March 28, 1979, explosion and meltdown at Three Mile Island, fierce debate has raged over whether humans were killed there. In 1986 and 2011, Chernobyl and Fukushima joined the argument. Whenever these disasters happen, there are those who claim that the workers, residents and military personnel exposed to radiation will be just fine. Continue reading
Documents say Navy knew Fukushima dangerously contaminated the USS Reagan
A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago. Continue reading
Obama’s nuke-powered drone strike on America’s energy future
So the “all the above” energy strategy now deems we dump another $6.5 billion in bogus loan guarantees down the atomic drain. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced finalization of hotly contested taxpayer handouts for the two Vogtle reactors being built in Georgia. Another $1.8 billion waits to be pulled out of your pocket and poured down the radioactive sinkhole. Continue reading
U.S. sailors sick from Fukushima radiation file new suit against Tokyo Electric Power
Citing a wide range of ailments from leukemia to blindness to birth defects, 79 American veterans of 2011’s earthquake/tsunami relief Operation Tomadachi (“Friendship”) have filed a new $1 billion class action lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power. Continue reading
50 reasons we should fear the worst from Fukushima
Part One of a two-part series
Fukushima’s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Continue reading
Toll of U.S. sailors devastated by Fukushima radiation continues to climb
The roll call of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke is continuing to soar. Continue reading
Japan’s deadly new ‘Fukushima fascism’
Fukushima continues to spew out radiation. The quantities seem to be rising, as do the impacts. Continue reading
Stop Japan’s Fukushima censorship
At a critically dangerous moment, Japan is poised to take a giant step toward officially shrouding Fukushima in the deepest possible secrecy. Continue reading
Pandora’s atomic box score
The first prophetic sign to follow CNN’s irrelevant Pandora’s Promise is this: the Dallas-based Luminant Power Company has cancelled two mammoth reactors. Continue reading
Hey pro-nuke climate scientists, note the global terror at Fukushima Four
Four climate scientists have made a public statement claiming nuclear power is an answer to global warming. Continue reading
Boston’s fabulous furry freak brothers help heal the Hub
A bunch of crazy-looking bearded freaks have just won the World Series. YEAH!!!! Continue reading
Robert Stone must film Fukushima now before Japan’s official secrets act becomes law
We are in desperate need of documentary filmmakers at Fukushima. Continue reading
14,000 Hiroshimas still swing in the Fukushima air . . .
Japan’s pro-nuclear prime minister has finally asked for global help at Fukushima. Continue reading
The demand for a global takeover at Fukushima has hit critical mass
More than 48,000 global citizens have now signed a petition at www.nukefree.org asking the United Nations and the world community to take charge of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Another 35,000 have signed at www.rootsaction.org. An independent advisory group of scientists and engineers is also in formation. Continue reading
The crisis at Fukushima 4 demands a global takeove
We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continue reading
Syria is an epic victory for the SuperPower of Peace
The United States is not now bombing Syria. Continue reading
Five ways a wider Syrian War could go nuclear
In the wake of an apparent break in the march to a wider war, the reality of a nuclear dimension in Syria remains largely unspoken. Continue reading
Vermont Yankee joins the tsunami of U.S. reactor shutdowns
In a huge victory for the grassroots movement for a green-powered earth, Entergy has announced it will shut its Vermont Yankee reactor by the end of next year. Continue reading
Dr. Hansen, we need you at Fukushima and Diablo Canyon
The horrifying news from Fukushima worsens daily. It is an unparalleled global catastrophe that cries out for anyone and everyone with nuclear expertise to pitch in. Continue reading
The Fukushima nightmare gets even worse
Just when it seemed things might be under control at Fukushima, we find they are worse than ever. Continue reading
Fukushima continues to spew its darkness
Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over. Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a spent fuel fire—is still very much with us. Continue reading
Obama, Mandela and Leonard Peltier
Barack Obama has taken his two daughters on a dramatic visit to the Robben Island cell once occupied by Nelson Mandela. Continue reading
San Onofre is dead and so is nuclear power
From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of June 7, 2013, all three are permanently shut. Continue reading
San Onofre at the no nukes brink: It’s time to take action & WIN!!!
In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cakewalk. Continue reading
San Onofre at the no nukes brink
With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license e●ception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year. Continue reading
So long, Pete & Toshi Seeger, it’s been amazingly great to know you
Posted on January 29, 2014 by Harvey Wasserman
Toshi and Pete Seeger defy description except through the sheer joy and honor it was to know them, however briefly. Continue reading →