By Harvey Wasserman / LA ProgressiveJan 9, 2018
Meet Sluggo. With the new moniker, the author no longer has to clarify that he's "not the Hurricane, not Weinstein, no relation to Debbie Schultz." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigApr 25, 2017
The term "populist" has a clear historical origin in the United States. It's important we claim it. (Pictured: Marine Le Pen) Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigJun 24, 2016
On a global scale, in many important ways, this marks the highest-profile step yet toward the death of U.S. nuclear power and a national transition to a "solartopian," green-powered planet. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman / Reader Supported NewsApr 30, 2016
As Greens, we believe this election’s most critical imperative is that Bernie convert the huge upwelling of mostly young grass-roots discontent he has ignited into a long-term, multi-issue movement. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigApr 26, 2016
April 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Harvey Wasserman / Reader Supported NewsApr 25, 2016
The decision to remove the seventh U.S. president from the $20 bill is long overdue. So is the movement to remove the name of Lord Jeffery Amherst from that college town in western Massachusetts. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 9, 2014
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant sits on the edge of the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and San Francisco. More significantly, it is nestled in a thicket of fault lines, some only recently discovered. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigJun 3, 2014
The corporate media silence on Fukushima has been deafening even though the melted-down nuclear power plant's seaborne radiation is now washing up on American beaches. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigApr 30, 2014
Why aren’t the football, baseball, basketball, hockey and other major sports franchises so many of us so passionately love and support not owned by the communities that give them their life? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigApr 9, 2014
How petro-pollution and nuclear fallout interact remains largely unstudied, but the answers can’t be good. And it’s clearer than ever that we won’t survive without ridding our planet of both. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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