Will You Pay as New Reactors Jump $900 Million in 3 Months?   By Harvey Wasserman     The projected price for Georgia’s Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months….and that’s just for starters.   Will you pay for it?  The future of new atomic power in the [...]

Atomic Rate Rape & the New China Syndrome     By Harvey Wasserman     Small wonder the death knell of new US nukes may be upon us.   Two reactors proposed for Florida will now, say its would-be builders, cost $24 billion or more…up from their original maximum guess of $4 billion each…far beyond [...]

OBAMA’S ATOMIC SOLYNDRA? by Harvey Wasserman The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama—and us. His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders who cannot handle the standard terms of a loan agreement. Or he could defend basic financial procedures and stand [...]

MyFDL Editor Notes: Title edited to remove all caps in accordance with MyFDL rules . Image link also removed as image was not from an approved source for MyFDL, also covered under MyFDL rules. Harvey Wasserman America’s 2 new nukes are on the brink of death April 5, 2012 The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are [...]

In the wake of Fukushima, grassroots citizen action is shutting the worldwide nuclear power industry. A Solartopian tipping point is upon us in the US, Europe and Japan which will re-define how the human race gets its energy. States rights and local democracy are at the core of the battle. The definitive breaking point looms in Vermont. By [...]

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Harvey Wasserman We may yet lose Tokyo….not to mention Alaska…and now Georgia, too February 10, 2012 As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operating license for two new reactors in Georgia, alarming reports from Japan indicate the Fukushima catastrophe is far from over. Thousands of tons of intensely radioactive spent fuel are still in serious jeopardy. Radioactive [...]

A federal judge has told the people of Vermont that a solemn contract between them and the reactor owner Entergy need not be honored. The fight will almost certainly now go to the US Supreme Court. At stake is not only the future of atomic power, but the legitimacy of all deals signed between corporations [...]

2012′s civil liberties apocalypse has already happened by  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman January 19, 2012 In case you missed it, President Barack Obama has signed a death knell for the Bill of Rights. It’s a hell of a way to begin a year many believe will mark the end of the world. The National Defense Authorization [...]

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 [...]

Has America’s stolen election process finally hit prime time? by  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman December 29, 2011 It took two stolen US Presidential elections and the prospect of another one coming up in 2012. For years the Democratic Party and even much of the left press has reacted with scorn for those who’ve reported on it. But [...]

As the numerologists note our arrival at 11/11/11, our attention is better focused on this day as the anniversary of the end of the useless, worthless, horrifying war that turned so much of 20 th Century into a twisted, violent mess.  And on how we must prevent the same from happening to our shiny new millennium. A [...]

Will the 1% steal Ohio’s labor rights referendum? by  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman November 6, 2011 Tuesday’s most important vote is the repeal of Ohio’s vicious anti-labor Issue 2. Polls show the repeal winning by 25% or more. But will it—like the 2004 presidential election—be stolen by the 1% intent on crushing working people and stealing [...]

COLUMNS Harvey Wasserman Where Occupy & No Nukes merge & win!!! October 23, 2011 The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing—and saving—the world. Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed. A long-term agenda seems to [...]

The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima’s radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the archipelago, deep into the ocean and around the globe—including the US.  It will ultimately impact millions, including many here in North America. The potentially thankful news is that Fukushima’s three melting cores may [...]

Green Music Again Confronts Atomic Power August 3, 2011 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, [...]

Harvey Wasserman Don’t Nuke the Budget! July 28, 2011 America’s budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Yet Congress and the White House may still want to use our money for fund atomic power. Specifically, $36 billion in loan guarantees [...]

At the end of John Huston’s 1948 classic “Treasure of Sierra Madre,”  armed bandits tell Humphrey Bogart they are federal agents . Bogie demands to see their badges. “Badges?” says their leader.  “We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need any badges.  I don’t have to show you no stinking badges.” Now nuclear fleet operator Entergy has, [...]