Harvey Wasserman
Harvey Wasserman is an activist and author. His last book America at the Brink of Rebirth: The Organic Spiral of US History was published in 2016. His Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show is at www.progressiveradionetwork.com, and he edits www.nukefree.org.
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Views Wednesday, December 18, 2019 Final Showdown: PG&E at the Brink of Nuclear Bankruptcy Powerful forces are quickly moving Pacific Gas & Electric toward a settlement on its hideously complex multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy case. Thankfully, Governor Gavin Newsom has put at least a temporary hold on a final agreement. But in the interim, it must be brought to light that no squaring... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 19, 2019 Ohio’s Fascist Pro-Nuke Attack on Democracy Comes Due on Monday A terrifying series of gestapo-style assaults, petiton buying, bribery, mass media manipulation and systematic intimidation has smacked into the attempt of Ohio citizens to repeal a billion-dollar bailout for two dangerously failing atomic reactors on Lake Erie. The unprecedented assault threatens... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 11, 2019 The Quake to Make Los Angeles a Radioactive Dead Zone Had Friday’s 7.1 earthquake and other ongoing seismic shocks hit less than 200 miles northwest of Ridgecrest/China Lake, ten million people in Los Angeles would now be under an apocalyptic cloud, their lives and those of the state and nation in radioactive ruin. The likely human death toll would be... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 31, 2019 Ohio Stumbles, With a Team Trump Nudge, Toward Nuclear and Coal Defying all laws of competitive economics, climate change, and technological progress, the Ohio House has voted in a ratepayer -funded bailout for two aging nuclear power plants on Lake Erie, and two even older coal burners, one in Indiana, but owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, based... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 19, 2018 Trump’s Space Force: Military Profiteering’s Final Frontier The Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Trump, has announced a new mission into the realm of martial excess. It is one is that will surely enrich the aerospace industry while spreading the global battlefield to a new dimension. Trump is calling for the creation of a new Space Force as a sixth... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 25, 2018 Trump Has Plenty of Accomplices in His Reckless Energy Policies Some 360,000 Americans now work in the solar industry, more than in nukes and coal combined. In fact, more Americans are now working in California’s solar industry than are digging coal nationwide. And the U.S. wind business now employs more than 100,000 people. But President Donald Trump wants to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Puerto Rico Goes Back Door to Solartopia and the Corporate Media Blacks It Out Puerto Rico has made history by becoming — briefly — the largest US territory or state to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy. The corporate media has done all it can to black the story out. The rising grassroots movement to totally rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric supply system with... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 26, 2018 Trump’s Assault on Solar Masks an Epic Crisis in the Nuclear Industry As Donald Trump launches his latest assault on renewable energy— imposing a 30 percent tariff on solar panels imported from China—a major crisis in the nuclear power industry is threatening to shut four high-profile reactors, with more shutdowns to come. These closures could pave the way for... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 03, 2017 Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future Warring visions have now erupted over the energy and economic futures of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Will the islands become a cutting-edge green-powered solartopia for the benefit of their long-time residents? Or a fossil-fueled robber baron playground like Hong Kong or Singapore, set to... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 26, 2017 Earthquake Risk Keeps Heat on Vulnerable Nuclear Reactors A proposal by a California administrative law judge has given safe energy advocates new hope that two Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors will be shut before an earthquake on the San Andreas fault turns them to rubble, potentially threatening millions of people . The huge reactors—California’s last—sit... Read more |