San Onofre at the No Nukes Brink In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk. With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a [...]

By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, May 6, 2013 Swing state Ohio mocks the very idea of democracy. As it so often does, Ohio reflects a national trend: this one the plunge toward corporate one-party state governments very much at odds with what the public thinks and wants. But even an apparently absolute moneyed take-over of [...]

Los Angeles to San Onofre: “Not So Fast!”

The bitter battle over two stricken southern California reactors has taken a shocking seismic hit.

Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima.  They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever. Two years after Fukushima exploded, three still-smoldering reactors remind us that the nuclear power industry repeatedly told the world this could never happen. [...]

Showdown at San Onofre

By Harvey Wasserman

Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power.

They sit in a seismic zone vulnerable to tsunamis.  Faulty steam generators have forced them shut for nearly a year.

A powerful “No Nukes” movement wants them to stay that way.  If they win, the shutdown of America’s [...]

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Harvey Wasserman Nuke power’s collapse gets ever more dangerous November 30, 2012 In the wake of this fall’s election, the disintegration of America’s decrepit atomic reactor fleet is fast approaching critical mass. Unless our No Nukes movement can get the worst of them shut soon, Barack Obama may be very lucky to get through his [...]

An Election Protection Agenda for 2016 by  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman November 9, 2012 A mass grassroots election protection movement has been born. It’s finally forced the issues of mass disenfranchisement and hackable electronic voting machines into the mainstream. And it’s emerged from this election with a must-do list of things that need to be accomplished—soon—if [...]

Why we fight to prevent stolen elections in 2012 and beyond by  Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman With election day less than a week away, the spectre of another stolen election is upon us. The airwaves and internet are at [...]

Will H.I.G.-owned e-voting machines give Romney the White House? by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 12, 2012 Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney’s business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election. The narrative is already being hyped by the corporate media. As Kelly O’Donnell reported for NBC’s Today [...]

Nine Republican governors have the power to put Mitt Romney in the White House, even if Barack Obama wins the popular vote. With their secretaries of state, they control the electronic vote count in nine key swing states: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Arizona, and New Mexico. Wisconsin elections are under the control of the [...]

Will the GOP steal America’s 2012 election? by  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman September 6, 2012 The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US Presidential election with relative ease. Six basic factors make this year’s theft a possibility: 1. The power of corporate money, now vastly enhanced by the US Supreme Court’s Citizens’ United  decisions; 2. The Electoral College, which [...]

Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of liquid radiation has poisoned the Pacific. Fukushima’s cesium and other airborne emissions have already dwarfed Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and all nuclear explosions including Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Children [...]

Harvey Wasserman Why should nuke guarantees cost less than home or student loans? July 2, 2012 The Department of Energy wants to give the Southern Company a nuclear power loan guarantee at better interest rates than you can get on a student loan. And unlike a home mortgage, there may be no down payment. Why? The terms DOE [...]

Harvey Wasserman Hold that “hot” Fukushima sushi June 7, 2012 We all knew it was coming. Radioactive tuna has been caught off the coast of California.  The fingerprint of cesium 137 is unmistakably from the exploded reactors at Fukushima. But Fukushima’s hot hands are also on a very welcome debate still stalemating China’s plans to build more [...]

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 [...]