LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Nuclear power industry execs testified in Washington yesterday that we have nothing to worry about – except perhaps the fact that almost all American nuclear power plants have backup batteries that would last only half as long as those at Japan’s troubled Fukushima. DAN HIRSCH comments: [...]
More than a million people teach at colleges and universities in the United States, but only one faces a Republican demand for his e-mails: William Cronon, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. . . . What does it take to become the target of this kind of attack? . . . continued at [...]
When Elizabeth Taylor died, Al Jazeera English reported that her greatest role was Cleopatra. They didn’t report that she had offered herself as a hostage at Entebbe in exchange for the 100 hijack victims held by terrorists at that airport in Uganda in 1976. . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE
When John Lennon sang “Imagine there’s no heaven” in 1971, rock critics called the song “utopian.” But 40 years later, researchers have found that religion is indeed disappearing in nine countries . . . . . . . continued at TheNation.com HERE.
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST We’ve had very little reporting on what the worst human and environmental consequences might be following the nuclear disasters at Fukushima. But, TOM ENGELHARDT says, we do have “the irradiated zone of the nuclear imagination,” where pulp fiction has dwelled on planetary disasters. Tom edits TomDispatch.com, [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The danger of nuclear power, from Fukushima to Diablo Canyon: DAN HIRSCH explains why the risks of nuclear power are too great. Dan heads the Committee to Bridge the Gap, and teaches at UC Santa Cruz; we saw him on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In Wisconsin tonight, Republicans voted to strip workers of collective bargain rights in a surprise coup. JOHN NICHOLS reports live from Madison on a developing crisis. READ John’s latest piece at TheNation.com HERE. WATCH Michael Moore’s speech in Madison HERE. (Photo: Milwaukee workers attack scabs in [...]
In a striking act of interfaith solidarity, 30 Jewish Studies faculty from seven campuses of the University of California have called on the Orange County district attorney to drop criminal charges against 11 Muslim students. . . . continued at Huffington Post HERE
Joseph Nye of Harvard’s Kennedy School wrote in the New Republic in 2007 that Muammar Qaddafi was interested in discussing “direct democracy.” Anthony Giddens of the London School of Economics wrote in the Guardian the same year that Libya under Qaddafi could become “the Norway of North Africa.” Benjamin Barber of Rutgers University wrote in [...]