HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE US is available at http://www.harveywasserman.com/, as is A GLIMPSE OF THE BIG LIGHT and clues to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Court to Vermont: "Drop Dead" (7 comments)
In practical terms,this could mean that any corporation can bust any public trust on even the flimsiest pretext.Let the corporate lawyers find some pale excuse and the company can skirt its contractual obligations. In the hands of the supremely corporatist Roberts Court, this case could join Citizens United in a devastating one-two punch for the unrestrained power of the private corporation.It would also put the reactor beyond
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2012 is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power
The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima's radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published in the International Journal of Health Services.
Germany and Japan, the world's third and fourth largest economies, along with numerous others countries, have definitively turned away from the "Peaceful Atom."
But it hasn't yet been buried. That's up to us.
Sunday, November 6, 2011 Will The 1% Steal Ohio's Labor Rights Referendum? (3 comments)
Greg Moore, head of the NAACP's voting rights campaign, has said that Ohio's Issue 2 may be the most important vote in the entire US this year. He also points out that in 2004 the right wing used a vote against gay marriage to attract conservative voters to the polls. This year the Republicans have put a symbolic anti-Obamacare Issue 3 on the ballot to draw out the same reactionary elements.
Thursday, August 4, 2011 Green Music Again Confronts Atomic Power (1 comments)
Amidst a life-and-death struggle to finally shut the nuclear energy industry,the power of green music flows again this Sunday.It's also pouring over the Internet, as the historic all-day MUSE2 gathering is staged at the Shoreline Amphitheatre south of San Francisco,re-uniting Bonnie Raitt,Jackson Browne,Crosby-Stills-Nash, the Doobie Brothers,John Hall,Sweet Honey in the Rock and many more who'll sing to benefit Fukushima.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Don't Nuke the Budget! (1 comments)
America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink.Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection & much more are being chopped.Yet Congress and the White House may still want to use our money to fund atomic power.Specifically, $36 billion in loan guarantees may still be on the table for building new nukes.Millions more are slated for "small modular reactors" and other atomic boondoggle.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We've Almost Lost Nebraska (33 comments)
Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry.
We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it---at least to the extent of what they actually know, which is nowhere near enough.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Forever? (4 comments)
The dream of a Solartopian future has become the capitalist present.Germany and Japan would not be committing to a green-powered future if its large corporations-Siemans, Enercon, Mitsubishi, Sharp-whose CEOs have run the numbers and decided nukes are a loser.And that the real profit center for the long-term energy biz is in green power.The $36 billion in loan guarantees Obama wants in the 2012 budget must come out.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Is Fukushima now ten Chernobyls into the sea? (7 comments)
Fukushima is much closer to the ocean than Chernobyl,so more intense contamination might be expected.The high radiation levels being measured indicate Fukushima's most important impacts may be on marine life.The US has ceased measuring contamination in Pacific seafood.But for centuries to come,at least some radioactive materials dumped into the sea will find their way into the creatures of the sea & humans who depend on them.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Is Fukushima now ten Chernobyls into the sea? (1 comments)
Grim news:
New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl.
Monday, May 23, 2011 Fukushima's Apocalyptic Threat Demands Immediate Global Action (7 comments)
Radiation pouring into the sea has begun to spread worldwide. Japan and Germany have had the good survival sense to abandon future reactor construction, and to shut some existing sites. But here, the corporate media blackout is virtually complete. Out of sight, out of mind seems the strategy for an industry desperate for federal loan guarantees and continued operation of a rickety fleet of decaying old reactors.
Saturday, April 30, 2011 Will the Nuclear Power Industry Melt Down?
A critical moment is coming soon, when Obama goes to Congress to request an additional $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nukes in his 2012 budget.
With them, America's atomic industry has a chance to build a few more reactors. Without them, a green-powered Earth is within our grasp.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 "Safe" Radiation is a Lethal TMI Lie (1 comments)
What we fear most about TMI, then Chernobyl and now Fukushima, is not what has happened---but what is yet to come, there, and at the next inevitable reactor disaster.
We are a pro-life movement.
Please call the White House, the Congress and your state and local governments and DEMAND they protect the health and safety of our people in the face of this on-going disaster.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 End Nuclear Power Before it Ends Us (33 comments)
The Japanese people are now paying a horrific price for the impossible dream of the "Peaceful Atom." For a half-century they have been told that what's happening now at Fukushima would NEVER occur.
Friday, March 11, 2011 Japan's Quake Could Have Irradiated the Entire US (8 comments)
Had the massive 8.9 earthquake that has just savaged Japan hit off the California coast, it could have ripped apart at least four coastal reactors and sent a lethal cloud of radiation across the entire US.The Obama Administration is now asking Congress for $36 billion in new loan guarantees to build more commercial reactors.It has yet to reveal its exact plans for dealing with a major reactor disaster, nor has it identified
Monday, January 24, 2011 Obama & our Disney nukes
The industry's apparently endless cash still pays for such happy-faced illusions of a technology that has spawned some 450 potential Chernobyls worldwide. Hyped to the hilt, showcase projects in Finland, France and elsewhere are melting amidst interminable delays and astronomical cost overruns. Proposed new US reactors have doubled and tripled in projected price well before the first shovel is turned.
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Today's $7 Billion New Nuke Attack (1 comments)
Nuke lobbyists have spent more than $640 million in the past decade to fund a "nuclear renaissance" from the federal trough. Because they are uneconomical and cannot compete with natural gas and renewables, private funding for new reactor projects has been virtually non-existent. The General Accounting Office and Congressional Budget Office have predicted at least a 50% financial failure rate for such loans.
Friday, November 26, 2010 Afghanistan is about perpetual war
For a truly prosperous society, educated and secure, cannot be ruled by the few. Poverty, ignorance and fear are the three pillars of authoritarian control. Without war, they all disappear.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Ohio Chamber lies & hides election buys
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce will not reveal the list of individuals and corporations that have funded its election campaign in the Buckeye State, despite having promised to do so in a public hearing. Arnebeck's coup reference was in relation to his allegation that Rove and the Chamber are involved in an unprecedented secret and coordinated money laundering operation to shift U.S. and state politics to Republican control.
Monday, November 1, 2010 Cliff Arnebeck: Ohio Chamber commits to produce list of contributors today
I have discussed the U.S. Chamber subpoenas with Matt Kairis who has represented them in the past and provided him with courtesy copies. I will advise you as soon as know whether they will be filing a motion to quash or will comply. The deadline in the US Chamber subpoena is 4:00 p.m.I hope you can hold the presses to assure that this important information reaches the voters of Ohio before they go to the polls tomorrow!
Sunday, October 31, 2010 Legal Marijuana or Bust!!! (2 comments)
The simple truth about marijuana prohibition:any law that allows the easy incarceration of any citizen any time those in power want to do it is the ultimate enemy of democracy.With 800,000 annual arrests over an herb used by tens of millions of Americans, it is the cornerstone of a police state.Sending this tool of official repression up in smoke will help mitigate the disaster.Vote YES on California's Prop 19.
Friday, October 29, 2010 How & why we have filed racketeering charges against Karl Rove's election operations
Coordinated activities between partisan candidates and groups like the Chamber of Commerce's Partnership for OH's Future and Rove's American Crossroads are illegal.The injection of huge sums of cash into partisan election operations has re-defined the process of American democracy in this & several previous election cycles.This filing with the Ohio Elect Commission is a critical step in testing the legalities of these efforts.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Visualize Karl Rove's Election Theft Subpoena (8 comments)
Imagine the look of contempt on Rove's face this past Sunday as he swaggered toward his star turn on CBS's Face the Nation only to be served with our subpoena sanctioned by the SoS of Ohio.The federal subpoena orders Rove to testify in deposition.Our attorney,Cliff Arnebeck,intends to ask Mr. Rove about his role in the theft if the 2004 election & his orchestration of tens of millions of corporate/billionaire dollars in 2010.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Could a Solar Green White House Finally Face the Nukes & Military?
Team Obama is clearly responding to the anger of the Democratic base.Those who worked to put them in the White House want it green.The Democrats have stumbled into the mid-term elections void of a vision that can excite our nation with real hope for an economic turn-around. Restoring solar power to the White House may be the first tiny step toward the green-powered future necessary to our survival.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 As we die for BP, our military rots in the wrong Gulf (3 comments)
There are no corners of the Earth that we can pollute without poisoning it all....and our own bodies. We cannot squander our resources on killing people on the other side of the Earth while leaving ourselves to be destroyed by the mayhem at home. Either our species learns this lesson, and acts on it--NOW!--or we do not survive.
Monday, April 26, 2010 Chernobyl demands a REAL climate bill (5 comments)
Chernobyl exploded in a remote backwater of an impoverished region. But by official accounts from Ukraine and Belarus,it did $500 billion in damage just there.Nowhere in the US would the property damage be remotely that small.The near-million death toll would be a mere fraction of how many would die here.No sane attempt to save the global ecology could ever include more money for precisely the most dangerous,destructive,dirty
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Nuke pushers to Vermont: "Drop Dead"
Angry citizens in VT and downwind NH and MA are told their worries have no place in a reactor renaissance, the message to "drop dead" has spread.Feds have confirmed that a suspected al Qaeda operative worked at 6 US nukes sites.Former CIA official Faddis warns that America's 104 operating reactors are dangerously vulnerable to terror attack.the message from the "nuclear renaissance" to the people is perfectly clear: drop dead
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 $645 MILLION in lipstick for a dead radioactive pig (3 comments)
$64.5 million, EVERY YEAR since the coming of George W. Bush. That's $1 million per every US Senator and Representative, plus another, say $100 million for the White House, courts and media. The "torrent of lies" from General Electric and Westinghouse, the "Coke and Pepsi" of the nuclear industry, "has made the tobacco industry look like a piker. Noam Chomsky's "manufacturing consent" has become an "outright purchase."
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Obama's Atomic Blunder (6 comments)
In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not---pledge billions of taxpayer dollars for a relapse of the 20th Century's most expensive technological failure. The reactor industry has spent untold millions lobbying for this first round of loan guarantees. There's no doubt it will seek far more in the coming months.
Sunday, February 14, 2010 Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists (21 comments)
Today's fundamentalists would have DESPISED the actual Founders.God forbid our children should know of American Christians who embraced the Sermon on the Mount and renounced the Book of Revelations...or natives who established democracy on American soil long before they saw the first European...or actual Founders who got drunk, high and laid on their way to writing the Constitution.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 How the great Howard Zinn made all our lives better
Howard Zinn was above all a gentleman of unflagging grace, humility and compassion.He was a warm, unfailingly friendly compadre. He shared a beautiful partnership with his wonderful wife Roz, a brilliant, thoroughly committed social worker about whom he once said: "You and I just talk about changing the world. She actually does it."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Et Tu, ACLU? (3 comments)
Nowhere in the Constitution do the Founders mention the word corporation. There were a small handful of them at the time of ratification, all strictly limited by state charter to where and what kind of business they could do. They bear scant resemblance to the multi-national behemoths we confront today. Those who wrote and ratified the First Amendment would be horrified by their very existence.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 The Weimar Democrats (8 comments)
The Democratic Party is itself a corporation. Its principle business is to retain political office and to DEFER public attacks on the corporations that provide much of its cash flow. The Democratic shtick is to market the PROMISE of change while making sure it doesn't happen.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 The Weimar Democrats
Not since FDR has the public handed a greater mandate for systemic change than to Barack Obama.8 years of Bush was the ultimate invitation.But Obama has rejected the opportunities as fast as they've come.The litany from the Great Banker Bailout to the No Single Payer Non-Debate is too painful to repeat."Dead Center"defines this administration.The grassroots can do better.As always, that's where our true hope resides.
Friday, January 1, 2010 Our Blue-Mooned, Baby-Boomed 64th Birthday Baptism (1 comments)
in our lifetime,the globalized corporation has metastasized into the most powerful institution in human history.A cancerous beast that has usurped human rights without human responsibilities,the trans-planetary corporation is now beyond the reach of the nation-state. Only a global green movement,tied through the internet and whatever else we can contrive,can overcome the sinister power of these interlinked financial machines
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 A Quiet but HUGE No Nukes Triumph (1 comments)
Throughout the world, the cost of renewables is plummeting while
reactor prices soar. So if America's thus-far successful grassroots
campaign against massive federal loan guarantees and other nuclear
bailouts can continue, we just might find ourselves on a parallel path
to a green-powered Earth.
Thursday, December 10, 2009 Now WE must earn Obama's Nobel
It's not enough to wring our hands. It's time to move on and figure out how to win. Our ideals---from meaningful peace to universal health care to a Solartopian energy economy---are all tangible, essential and winnable. The ignoble truth is that the man in the White House is not our ally. So what else is new? Obama's failures have made it OUR Nobel. Yes we can!
Thursday, December 10, 2009 Now WE Must Earn Obama's Nobel!
Barack Obama may not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there are Americans, alive & dead, who do.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Tonight Obama's escalation will be IMMEDIATELY opposed (7 comments)
Tonight Pres Obama is set to announce his commitment to the worst blunder in US policy since Lyndon Johnson escalated the Vietnam War.The decision to send more troops to Afghanistan would seem to be great news for the corporate-military elite.It could take the focus of the progressive forces in this country off the target of a single-payer health plan and other social justice issues,and away from the need to rid our nation of
Monday, November 30, 2009 What's the carbon/health footprint of another senseless war? (1 comments)
The US does not have the human, political or financial resources to wage this war while also solving the climate and health crisis.We cannot lose track of our goals-peace,a planet to live on, social justice,freedom and the promise of what's beyond.We will not surrender that vision to hard times.So we'll gather Tuesday night. Let's hope we have something to celebrate. We already know what we have to fight for.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine
Like this vast core of green groups, Moody's, Standard & Poor, Citibank and a powerful cohort of financial analysts see atomic power as a horrific investment that can only be described as, well, radioactive. The risks of building a new reactor, says a recent Citibank report, "are so large and variable that individually they could each bring even the largest utility company to its knees."
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace (3 comments)
Standing down in Afghanistan & Iraq would be truly historic.It could end the epoch-dating to 1492-when Europe continually marched throughout the Third World.More narrowly,it would acknowledge,at last,America's inability to shape every corner of the Earth to its overbearing whim.Perhaps it would finally curb this nation's addiction to squandering blood & treasure on these absurd,hopeless&ultimately suicidal military excursion.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 Is this Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan? (7 comments)
It's impossible to assign tangible value to Friedman's loss of faith in escalation.But those of us hoping to avoid a catastrophic dive off the Afghani abyss have expected nothing but grief from this mainstay of the Iraqi catastrophe.That a key cheerleader for that war is now waving his editorial pompoms for de-escalation can only be good. Let's make sure the White House gets the message.
Sunday, September 27, 2009 Obama's LBJ Moment
As in Vietnam, the goal would seem to be to install a regime run by the United States and to "pacify" the country into accepting it. The last foreigner to win like that in Afghanistan was Alexander the Great, about 2300 years ago. Since then the British and Soviets have been among the many to crash and burn in this "graveyard of great powers."
Monday, September 14, 2009 Will the Corporate Supremes now dance on democracy's corpse? (3 comments)
While America agonizes over health care,energy and war,Justices Roberts,Scalia,Alito and Thomas could make it all moot. They may now have the 5th Supreme Court vote they need to open the final floodgates on corporate spending in political campaigns.At this point,only an irreversible ban on ALL private campaign money--corporate or otherwise--might save the ability of our common citizenry to be heard.
Monday, September 7, 2009 Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG (1 comments)
Van Jones,as imperfect as the rest of us,was Obama's critical firestarter in a green-powered revolution that is decades overdue.While the likes of Glenn Beck can crow over his demise, it's the gargantuan King CONG barons of fossil/nuke who are really in the saddle. Pushing Van Jones aside is a major coup for the destroyers of the planet, and a big loss for those of us who would re-power and save it.
Sunday, September 6, 2009 Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG (2 comments)
Van Jones has been fed to King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas).
Obama's one serious green bright spot been sacrificed at the McCarthyite altar of the corporate bloviation machine.
The brilliant, charismatic Jones was responsible for the administration's single significant accomplishment to date. With clarity and verve Jones finally brought to the mainstream the critical message that what's good for the environment
Thursday, July 9, 2009 California should pay its people in pot (2 comments)
California's state finances have gone to pot, and that's what it should use to pay its employees.
Monday, June 15, 2009 Facing the Bushes' Iranian Whirlwind
The parallels between the stolen Iranian election of 2009 and the American of 2000 and 2004 are tempting. The histories---and futures---of the two nations are inseparable. Bound up in their tortured half-century of crime and manipulation are the few glimmers of hope for lasting peace in the Middle East.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Is This the End of the Age of the Automobile? (3 comments)
As a dominant form of transportation, the automobile is dead. So is GM, which now stands for Gone Mad. But the larger picture says that the financial crisis now enveloping the world is grounded in the transition from the automobile---and the fossils that fuel it---to a brave renewable world of reborn mass transit and green power.
Monday, February 9, 2009 $50 Billion Debate vs. Pro-Nuker Patrick Moore on Democracy (5 comments)
A coalition of environmental groups are calling on senators to remove a controversial provisions from the $900 billion stimulus bill that could lead to the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants. We recently hosted a debate between independent journalist and longtime anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman and Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder and member of the pro-nuclear Clean and Safe Energy Coalition.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama
" ... the promise of change is not change itself. Inaugurating a brilliant young leader who speaks in complete sentences can only be good. But it is a fatal delusion to think this means we have gotten where we need to go." Wasserman presents a ten point wish list.
Monday, October 6, 2008 Because we fought for them, my daughters have cast paper ballots (1 comments)
But to guarantee a full voter turnout, and a safe reliable, vote count, YOU must get involved. Visit The Free Press and Poll Workers for Democracy.This year, there is no excuse. We know what has happened, and we know the consequences of inaction. See you in the army - of election protection workers.
Monday, November 19, 2007 People Were Killed by Three Mile Island and Other Nuclear Disasters
One of the biggest lies ever told in American industrial history is that "no one died at Three Mile Island."
In the frenzy to get public funding for still more nuclear reactors, some industry backers now say no one has ever been killed by the nuclear industry AT ALL.
These absurd statements reflect atomic energy's desperate need for federal loan guarantees, which have been slipped into the Energy Bill now before Congress.
Monday, July 30, 2007 Will Bush cancel the 2008 election? (14 comments)
But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.The real question is not how or when they might do it.It's how, realistically,we can stop them.
Sunday, April 15, 2007 Peace Be With You, Kurt Vonnegut
As the media fills with whimsical good-byes to one of America's greatest writers, lets not forget one of the great engines driving this wonderful man-he HATED war. Including this one in Iraq. And he had utter contempt for the men who brought it about.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Will a shocking new GOP court victory and Karl Rove's attack on Ohio '06 doom the Democrats nationwide? (11 comments)
HB3 and Blackwell's arbitrary directives have already devastated Democratic voter registration drives and caused thousands of mostly Democratic potential voters to wonder about their true eligibility to cast a ballot on November 7.The mainstream media is portraying this latest episode as a blood feud between Petro and Blackwell.But the real winner is the Bush White House,which has every reason to suppress the vote November 7.
Thursday, October 26, 2006 Will Ken Blackwell find the ways to steal Ohio 2006 as he did in 2004?
Since 2000, under Blackwell's supervision, Boards of Elections in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo have eliminated some 500,000 voters from their registration rolls. Nearly all are in heavily Democratic urban areas. In a state where some 5.6 million people voted for president in 2004, this represents nearly 10% of the electorate. George W. Bush's alleged majority in Ohio 2004 was roughly 118,000 votes.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 A loaves & fishes/Holy Ghost victory for the GOP in November? (4 comments)
It will take just two Biblical fixes for the GOP to keep the Congress, and thus solidify their power in this country, possibly forever: a loaves and fishes vote count, a Holy Ghost turnout. The Republicans honed their skills for stealing elections in 2004, and have institutionalized the mechanisms in the intervening months. Democrats won't speak the name of this crime, and cry 'conspiracy theory!' when anyone else does.
Monday, September 25, 2006 Court victory lets preserved Ohio 2004 ballots tell new tales of theft and fraud as indictments and convictions mount
So far, even the limited inspection of ballots has yielded astonishing results. Three precincts in two counties have shown consecutive runs of Bush votes that qualify as "virtual statistical impossibilities."Only a fraction of 88 counties have received even passing scrutiny. But the early indicators are that Ohio 2004 may ultimately prove out to have been the dirtiest and most obviously stolen election in US history.
Sunday, September 24, 2006 Movie Review: Stealing America...Vote by Vote (or The Crime of the Century)
The sum effect of STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote is to enable us to understand in no uncertain terms that we either act on this issue, or we lose what few threads remain of our precious democracy. Fadiman wisely ends STEALING AMERICA with first-person testimonials of citizens who have taken the issue into their own hands, as did our nation's founders more than 200 years ago, in opposition to another George.
Sunday, September 3, 2006 Saving the ballot evidence from Ohio 2004
The 2004 Ohio presidential electoral college slate became the first ever challenged in its entirety, leading to a historical debate in the U.S. Congress in January 2005. These ballots are essential to political scientists, historians and other interested parties that wish to sort out the controversies and irregularities that surrounded Ohio's 2004 election.
Sunday, August 6, 2006 Tom Friedman's Walter Cronkite moment
The tragedy now is that George W. Bush has neither the intelligence nor the integrity nor the heart to call a halt to the slaughter. And if the GOP stranglehold on the machinery of the American vote count is left unchallenged, the next occupant of the White House will certainly be no better.
Sunday, June 4, 2006 RFK and Rolling Stone nail Ohio's stolen 2004 election, but much more must be done
Now we'll see if there's any further media follow-up. And if the Democratic Party actually DOES SOMETHING about the fact that America is about to be hijacked again in 2006, and then for the third straight presidential race in 2008.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Freaked-out fundamentalists fear DAVINCI for its fierce feminism (2 comments)
Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a daughter?
Questions about Christ's love life will dominate debate over the release of the DAVINCI CODE this weekend.
The answers do matter. But what really counts is the story's pagan/feminist core, and its role in the Culture War.
