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Mark Hertsgaard: Still Not Getting the Message on Nuclear Power
April 15, 2011
"At a time when we are cutting health care, cutting education, cutting old people from the budget, we want to put $50 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power?" asks Mark Hertsgaard, longtime environmental reporter. "Nuclear power will make climate change worse, not better," he argues.
Mark Hertsgaard, The Bill Hicks Story, and Making Obama Fight
April 14, 2011
"At a time when we are cutting health care, cutting education, cutting old people from the budget, we want to put $50 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power?" asks Mark Hertsgaard, longtime environmental reporter. "Nuclear power will make climate change worse, not better," he argues.
Mike Papantonio: (Not) Learning from Japan's Nuclear Crisis
March 17, 2011
"Even knowing what's happening in Japan, we have Republicans saying we have to cut regulatory spending on places like nuclear energy," says Mike Papantonio, who notes the similarities between the refusal to learn from BP and the refusal to learn, now, from a deepening disaster in Japan.
Mike Papantonio, David Newby, Kabzuag Vaj & Monica Adams
March 16, 2011
"Even knowing what's happening in Japan, we have Republicans saying we have to cut regulatory spending on places like nuclear energy," says Mike Papantonio, who notes the similarities between the refusal to learn from BP and the refusal to learn, now, from a deepening disaster in Japan.
Harvey Wasserman: Japan's Nuclear Crisis
March 16, 2011
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Edwidge Danticat: Create Dangerously
January 29, 2011
"Writing is nothing like dying in, for, and possibly with, your country," writes novelist and essayist Edwidge Danticat in her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. But writing and creating can inspire action, whether it's revolution in the streets or simply managing to survive under seemingly hopeless circumstances.
Edwidge Danticat, Howard Zinn, and John Nichols
January 28, 2011
"Writing is nothing like dying in, for, and possibly with, your country," writes novelist and essayist Edwidge Danticat in her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. But writing and creating can inspire action, whether it's revolution in the streets or simply managing to survive under seemingly hopeless circumstances.
Ciné Institute: Haiti's Heroes
January 13, 2011
We've reported this week on how little has changed since the Haiti earthquake one year ago today. The cholera epidemic is on the rise, a million people are living in tent cities and the Haitian government is in complete paralysis. We continue to follow the situation in Haiti, but how about a little positive news?
Peter Hart, Miriam Moskowitz, Haiti and the Broken Economy
January 12, 2011
"They are goading people into feeling like their country has been stolen from them," says FAIR's Peter Hart of Glenn Beck and other right-wing media personalities with what he terms a "conspiratorial worldview." It's not just using violent metaphors, in other words, it's creating a paranoid mindset that something dangerous is happening to the U.S. that can appeal to those already inclined toward paranoid thinking, like Jared Loughner.
Bill Quigley: Hate in Arizona, Hope in Haiti
January 12, 2011
"We in the U.S. have more people in jail than anywhere else in the world, we spend more on our military than the whole world combined, we have more guns, yet people somehow feel insecure," notes Bill Quigley of the culture in the U.S. Questions about guns aren't the only questi0n to be asked in the wake of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Judge John Roll, and several others in Arizona this weekend. There are many questions to be asked, about priorities, motives, and more.

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