Christian Parenti: The Nuclear ‘Sacrifice Zone’ in Japan Christian Parenti: The Nuclear ‘Sacrifice Zone’ in Japan
In Japan, fears about nuclear fallout have only been getting worse as disaster cleanup crews struggle with radioactive water leaking out of the Fukushima plant.
Mar 30, 2011 / Press Room
Christian Parenti: The Nuclear ‘Sacrifice Zone’ in Japan Christian Parenti: The Nuclear ‘Sacrifice Zone’ in Japan
In Japan, fears about nuclear fallout have only been getting worse as disaster cleanup crews struggle with radioactive water leaking out of the Fukushima plant.
Mar 30, 2011 / MSNBC
Joel Salatin: Breaking Free From Factory Farms Joel Salatin: Breaking Free From Factory Farms
Joel Salatin outlines the key issues America faces as its citizens increasingly rely on concentrated animal feeding operations that require cheap energy in order to operate profita...
Mar 30, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
Tell Facebook to Unfriend Coal Tell Facebook to Unfriend Coal
Facebook burns more fossil fuel each day than numerous nations.
Mar 29, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Unpacking for a Disaster Unpacking for a Disaster
The catastrophes in Japan remain that country’s tragedy, so we need to keep our own anxieties here in the US in check—or harness them to make constructive changes in ...
Mar 28, 2011 / Rebecca Solnit
Obama Loves Nukes Obama Loves Nukes
Even as Fukushima threatens to unleash the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, the president champions nuclear power in the United States.
Mar 24, 2011 / Mark Hertsgaard
Nuclear Power Loses Its Alibi Nuclear Power Loses Its Alibi
When nuclear reactors blow, the first thing that melts down is the truth.
Mar 24, 2011 / Chip Ward
Lester Brown: The Planet’s Scarcest Resource Is Time Lester Brown: The Planet’s Scarcest Resource Is Time
Already, eighteen countries are overpumping their aquifers, and few realize that in the event of a crisis, the US food supply would run out in three days.
Mar 22, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions
After Three Mile Island: The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Safety Culture After Three Mile Island: The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Safety Culture
The 1979 partial meltdown prompted more regulations and greater enforcement. Then in the 1990s, a Republican Congress took aim.
Mar 22, 2011 / Christian Parenti
Missing in the Japan Catastrophe: Thinking the Unthinkable Missing in the Japan Catastrophe: Thinking the Unthinkable
Why we can’t bring ourselves to discuss the worst that could happen at the Fukushima nuclear complex?
Mar 22, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt