Stories by Harvey Wasserman
The Senate bill includes a "Clean Energy Development Administration" that could deliver virtually unlimited federal cash to build new reactors and fund other mega-polluters.
Posted on Oct 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
But they fail to address who will pay for and insure them, where will the fuel come from and the waste go and who will protect them from terrorists.
Posted on Jun 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A little-known liability could derail attempts to revive our finances -- federal disaster insurance on 104 rickety atomic reactors.
Posted on Apr 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The latest demand for a $50 billion taxpayer handout to the nuclear power industry has been sleazed into the Senate budget bill.
Posted on Apr 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Thirty years after the melt-down, an Iron Curtain has formed between corporate and independent media, with nuclear power at its center.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
We mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.
Posted on Mar 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
As FDR did in 1933, Obama must now help end an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade against marijuana.
Posted on Jan 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
An unlikely source has dealt a devastating blow to the much-hyped revival of nuclear power: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Posted on Jul 28, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
Republicans are funneling billions into the coffers of their oil baron backers; it's no surprise Bush and McCain aren't pushing for renewable energy.
Posted on Jun 26, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
The US Supreme Court has just eliminated the voting rights of tens of thousands who generally vote Democratic.
Posted on May 1, 2008, Source: The Free Press
Nuclear power isn't just an environmental nightmare, it is also a security nightmare. But Congress doesn't seem to take either concern seriously.
Posted on Nov 29, 2007, Source: AlterNet
From Ohio to Scotland, the controversy over electronic voting machines has become a global phenomenon.
Posted on May 12, 2007, Source: Free Press
Did 308,000 canceled Ohio voter registrations put Bush back in the White House?
Posted on Mar 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
New legislation passed by Ohio Republicans may just institutionalize those famous "voting irregularities."
Posted on Dec 12, 2005, Source: Free Press
Though few are now talking about it, atomic power is high on the list of realities forever transformed by the terrorist nightmare of September 11.
Posted on Sep 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
As the 10th anniversary of Chernobyl approaches experts say that Chernobyl will ultimately cause roughly a million cancers worldwide. And that will eventually kill even more people -- especially small children -- than died during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Harvey Wasserman writes: "But no single bomb has held a candle to what happened with deceptive, deafening silence April 26, 1986. Chernobyl was the ultimate historic sucker punch. After 41 years of living in terror from the possibility of a deranged but deliberate weapons exchange, we were blind-sided by a 'peaceful' technology. The best and brightest US and Soviet 'experts' promised such disasters could not happen. They were as wrong as the military madmen who said fallout killed no one at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This appalling anniversary screams out that these reactors -- all of them -- must be shut."
Posted on Apr 26, 2000, Source: deleted
