Author: Norman Solomon

    With her usual precision, Molly Ivins commented: “If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child — mad as hell, with a sense of humor.”      Jim is the real deal – a progressive populist so compelling that he was chosen to be the finale guest on the…

By Norman Solomon On the edge of Capitol Hill, day after day, we heard wrenching testimony from people whose lives had been ravaged by the split atom. That was three decades ago. I was coordinating the National Citizens Hearings for Radiation Victims in 1980, one year after Three Mile Island. The voices came from uranium…

The other night, as news from Japan took a turn for the worse, I stayed up late and wrote about Nuclear Power Madness. I hope you'll read the article and pass it on.   My opposition to nuclear power is longstanding. In the late 1970s, while advocating for solar and wind energy as well as conservation, I devoted two years to…

Published on Monday, March 14, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Norman Solomon Like every other president since the 1940s, Barack Obama has promoted nuclear power. Now, with reactors melting down in Japan, the official stance is more disconnected from reality than ever. Political elites are still clinging to the oxymoron of “safe nuclear power.” It’s up…

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