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Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman is an activist and author. His first book "Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States" was published in 1972.  His Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show is at www.progressiveradionetwork.com, and he edits www.nukefree.org.

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"While referring uniformly to this latest centrally-generated fiasco as a “total” blackout, the corporate media have almost totally ignored this steady, fast-growing stream of power being generated on Puerto Rico, virtually all of it solar." (Photo: USAF Nicholas Dutton)

Puerto Rico Goes Back Door to Solartopia and the Corporate Media Blacks It Out

A Solartopian Puerto Rico would threaten the Trumpian corporatists who want to “restore” the island’s central, fossil-fired, utterly corrupted grid, which is sure to go down in the next global-warmed hurricane.

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"Trump’s move is predicted to drop upcoming solar installations by 10 to 15 percent and cost some 23,000 jobs." (Photo: Kimco Realty/Flickr/cc)

Trump’s Assault on Solar Masks an Epic Crisis in the Nuclear Industry

Like nearly everything else Trump does, the hike in duties makes no rational sense.

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Blue roofs, temporary blue plastic sheeting, installed on homes damaged by Hurricane Maria, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with FEMA in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future

Amid all of this corporate conniving, the people of Puerto Rico remain in dire straits.

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Diablo Canyon power plant in California. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Earthquake Risk Keeps Heat on Vulnerable Nuclear Reactors

A proposal by a California administrative law judge has given safe energy advocates new hope

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In response Donald Trump has scolded the island for it’s massive debt, and waited a full week after the storm hit to lift a shipping restriction requiring all incoming goods to be carried on US-flagged ships. (That restriction is largely responsible for the island’s economic problems in the first place.)

In Maria's Wake, Could Puerto Rico Go Totally Green?

In a sun-drenched eco-system, renewable energy would foster incredible opportunity and help protect the island from it's next natural disaster.

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“In addition to reactors, which at least are within containment structures, high-level radioactive waste storage pools are not within containment, and are also mega-catastrophes waiting to happen, as in the event of a natural disaster like a hurricane,” says Kevin Kamps of the activist group Beyond Nuclear.

Nuclear Plants Plus Hurricanes: Disasters Waiting to Happen

Throughout the world, some 430 reactors are in various stages of vulnerability to natural disaster, including ninety-nine in the United States.

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