Archive for category: Nuclear and Capitalism

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  Nuclear power will worsen the wealth gap

  Nuclear and Capitalism April 24, 2012 12:05 pm

  What is needed is a Copernican revolution. We used to think the sun went around the Earth and were proven wrong. Now we assume that life and the planet revolves around us humans — we are the centre of it all. The revolution needed is for us to recognise that the web of life and our wellbeing is dependent on the wellbeing of this planet. We humans are but part of the web, entirely dependent on a healthy planet. Our moral responsibilities must include those to the planet.

   
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  The Crony Nuclear Capitalism in the US

  Nuclear and Capitalism February 6, 2012 1:47 pm

  Patriotism, it’s said, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. A worthy example now making its way into the national spotlight is the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), which is making strained national security arguments on Capitol Hill to pave the way for a $2 billion federal bailout. If USEC had a sound product or argument, this subsidy might be defensible. USEC has neither.

   
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  Soli Sorabjee’s opinion on Liability Rules and CSC

  Documents, Nuclear and Capitalism December 13, 2011 1:00 pm

  Soli Sorabjee’s opinion on Liability Rules and CSC

   
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  India’s Nuclear Discourse : You Perish, We will Progress

  Nuclear and Capitalism December 6, 2011 10:13 pm

  Arun Kaliraja B When Japan was struggling to contain the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, the climate talks started in June 2011 in Bonn, Germany. On 14th June India tabled its proposal to include ‘nuclear power’ under the green technology when there is a major shift in the global opinion against [...]

   
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  For a world beyond nukes and capitalism

  Nuclear and Capitalism October 27, 2011 8:00 pm

  Where Occupy and No Nukes Merge and Win!!! Harvey Wasserman, on Commondreams.org The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing—and saving—the world. Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed. [...]

   
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  Anti-Capitalism and Environmentalism as a Political Alternative

  Alternatives, Nuclear and Capitalism October 7, 2011 11:21 am

  Esther Vivas The starting point for today’s debate is to note that humanity is in a global ecological crisis that is an intrinsic part of the systemic crisis of capitalism. And one of the differences from past economic crises, from that of the 1970s or the crash of 1929, is [...]

   
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  Nuclear Energy- A Worker’s Point of View

  Nuclear and Capitalism September 24, 2011 12:06 am

  By Joe Johnson Socialist Viewpoint “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” —Karl Marx Most of Marxism is relatively simple class struggle—which side are you on? However, there are some areas that are difficult and cannot be made simple. I find [...]

   
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  Nuclear Energy and Capitalism

  Nuclear and Capitalism September 7, 2011 3:34 pm

  The scale of the catastrophe that has taken place at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima in Japan has once again revealed the predatory exploitation of nature by capitalism. The human species has always lived by transforming nature. But capital today poses a new problem: this system doesn’t produce for [...]

   
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  Contrary to power company figures, cost of nuclear power generation highest: research

  Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear Energy July 24, 2011 1:16 am

  Mainichi Japan.  July 23, 2011 Utility companies across the country continue to tout the low cost of nuclear energy on their websites. Tohoku Electric Power Co. boasts nuclear power’s economic efficiency, while Hokkaido Electric Power Co (HEPCO) the stability of its cost. Each site comes with bar graphs indicating the [...]

   
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  Ecology against Capitalism: Nuclear Reaction

  Community Updates, Nuclear and Capitalism July 21, 2011 8:43 am

  Mary Black and Andrew Stone It was looking increasingly ominous. ‘Government sources’ were leaking that New Labour, having pursued a ‘rule nothing out’ policy on nuclear power for its first two terms, was intent on initiating a new reactor building programme immediately after the election. These rumours were strengthened when [...]

   
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  The Power of Nuclear Things: Technology and Culture

  Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear Energy June 26, 2011 12:48 am

  Gabrielle Hecht (Article Courtesy: Technology and Culture ) On 28 January 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush declared in his State of the Union address that “the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” The clear implication: Iraq was building nuclear weapons. [...]

   
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  Special Report: After Japan, where’s the next nuclear weak link?

  featured, Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear Energy June 13, 2011 12:24 pm

      Imagine a country where corruption is rampant, infrastructure is very poor, or the quality of security is in question. Now what if that country built a nuclear power plant? Reuter’s Special Report       It may sound alarming but that is what could happen in many developing [...]

   
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  The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy

  Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear and Racism, Nuclear and Society June 4, 2011 10:43 am

      When the apocalyptic cloud erupted over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world woke up to the dawn of the nuclear age. Today, if we survey the landscape of nuclear development across the planet, we see that the destructive impacts of the technology are often paired with the dehumanizing impacts [...]

   
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  Fukushima crisis and capitalism

  Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear and Society May 31, 2011 12:44 pm

      Fuwa Tetsuzo, director of the Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute, said on May 10 that the nuclear accident in Fukushima has clearly illustrated two fundamental problems of capitalism. The following is Fuwa’s speech at the JCP head office:     Threat of profit-first principle We can nowadays [...]

   
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  Nuclear Radiation is a Symptom of Crony Capitalism

  Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear and Society May 14, 2011 8:29 pm

  Before America can protect itself from Nuclear Radiation, we must first teach the children how to recognize propaganda, and how to avoid it’s influences.  The Nuclear industry sponsors Dr. Bill Wattenburg on the radio to perpetually espouse the benefits of Nuclear power.  He denies the risks and hazards.  His supportive [...]

   
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  How Catastrophe Heralds a New Japan

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Capitalism, Nuclear and Society April 21, 2011 3:25 pm

  KOJIN KARATANI I was on the streets of Tokyo when the earthquake struck.  The ground shook violently, while buildings swayed around me for a long time.  It was beyond anything I had experienced before, and I sensed that something terrible had happened.  My first thought was of the Kobe earthquake [...]

   
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  Nuke workers at risk of overwork death

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Capitalism April 21, 2011 6:38 am

    Depression, stress, poor sanitation, diet: doctor Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers engaged in efforts to stabilize the crisis-hit Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant are at risk of depression or death from overwork, a doctor who recently examined them said Wednesday. Many of the workers have been exposed to multiple stresses, [...]