Nuclear’s greatest hope may be the ‘Clean Power Plan’ By Thomas Overton – POWER magazine– 11/17/2015 Another month, another premature nuclear plant retirement. About two weeks ago, Entergy finally threw in the towel on the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, N.Y., a move that came as a surprise to exactly no one […]
Campesino leaders say the government is criminalizing their movements and does not protect their rights. | Photo: @marchapatriota teleSUR – November 21, 2015 At least 300 campesino leaders have been killed in Colombia in 2015, according to Andres Gil, human rights leader and spokesperson of the Marcha Patriotica. Many of these deaths have come as […]
By Gary G. Kohls | Consortium News | November 14, 2015 Fifty years ago next month (December 1965), with the urging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the rubber stamp approval of President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the United States Air Force started secretly spraying the forests of Laos with […]
By Maya Evans | Dissident Voice | November 7, 2015 OKINAWA, JAPAN — Around one hundred and fifty Japanese protesters gathered to stop construction trucks from entering the U.S. base Camp Schwab, after the Ministry of Land over-ruled the local Governors’ decision to revoke permission for construction plans, criticizing the “mainland-centric” Japanese Government of compromising […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-11-05%20Pierre%20Desrochers.mp3"][/audio]In 1980 economist Julian Simon bet biologist Paul Ehrlich that the price of five commodity metals would decrease over the next 10 years. Today on the program Pierre Desrochers of the University of Toronto Mississauga joins us to explain how the bet came about, who won, and what was really at stake.
By John Laforge | CounterPunch | November 2, 2015 Early on Sunday Oct. 25, an underground fire caused an explosion in a low-level nuclear waste site in the desert 10 miles from Beatty, Nevada, and 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The explosion and fire followed flash flooding that shut down Beatty’s escape routes: US […]
RT | October 28, 2015 The US Navy continues to cover the oceans with tens of thousands of sonobuoys to monitor and detect submarine movement around the world. The DoD has allocated $178.5 million to buy an additional 136,000 sonobuoys. About a meter-long, a typical sonobuoy device can be passive or active. The first type […]
RT | October 28, 2015 The US Navy continues to cover the oceans with tens of thousands of sonobuoys to monitor and detect submarine movement around the world. The DoD has allocated $178.5 million to buy an additional 136,000 sonobuoys. About a meter-long, a typical sonobuoy device can be passive or active. The first type […]
By David Siegel – October 16, 2015 What is your position on the climate-change debate? What would it take to change your mind? If the answer is It would take a ton of evidence to change my mind, because my understanding is that the science is settled, and we need to get going on this […]
By John Laforge | CounterPunch | October 14, 2015 “[W]e should be carefully monitoring the oceans after what is certainly the largest accidental release of radioactive contaminants to the oceans in history,” marine chemist Ken Buesseler said last spring. Instead, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency halted its emergency radiation monitoring of Fukushima’s radioactive plume in […]
