[caption id="attachment_18651" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Skinny George"][/caption] I owe George Monbiot an apology. Last week, I published an article for Project Censored in which I included a few choice snippets of a debate aired on DemocracyNow! The debate was between world renowned anti-Nuclear activist and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and famous ...

[caption id="attachment_18568" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Explosion at Japan Nuclear Plant"][/caption]   Yesterday, March 29, 2001, according to a report released from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Studies, “The French radiation protection authority, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), estimates the radioactive releases of iodine-131 in Japan had reache ...

CENSORED IN 1978: NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS -- ATOMIC LEMONS The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national public interest group, has for years been trying to tell the story of nuclear hazards to the American public with little success. Last year, the UCS released a report titled “Scientists’ Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort” which received little coverage. The report criticized the Nu ...

CENSORED IN 1977: ELECTRONIC SMOG     “Studies have linked sustained microwave exposure to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, loss of judgment, leukemia, cataracts, changes in the blood-brain barrier, heart trouble, and central nervous disorders.” Yet a cover-up exists. The food industry uses microwaves to roast peanuts and coffee beans, freeway call-boxes use microwaves, burglar alarms and automa ...

Last Wednesday there was news of pumping millions of gallons of water into the ground in order to obtain natural gas.  Some idiot figured out that we could recycle the previously fresh water that “comes back” to the surface loaded with contaminants.  The logic is that the contaminants in that returning toxic soup can be "treated" like sewage.  Some well operators are also selling their waste, rather than pa ...

People who work pay taxes, which fund the government.  Sounds simple doesn’t it?  Cut spending to reduce government debt.  On the face of it, this sounds simple too.  Add into the mix that the government is the largest employer in the country and even the dimmest of us can begin to see that it is not so “simple.”  When we cut government spending, we are cutting government jobs and the subsequent income taxe ...

Ralph Nader helped conclude a cutting-edge energy conference here Oct. 9 on Peak Oil by describing what alternative energy proponents must do to reduce harsh new job losses and similar hardship for the public. ...

By Guest Blogger Terry Morrone Professor Emeritus of Physics, Adelphi University How much do you think it would cost to make the transition to an economy based on alternative energy? It’s a complicated question. I’ll calculate the cost to produce all of our electricity in the United States by alternative means. This is a simpler, well defined but still messy problem. I’ll show that it is possible to make a ...

CENSORED IN 1980: SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE GLOBAL SUPERMARKET While modern technology has increased worldwide food production and raised per capita income, millions of landless peasants in Third World countries face starvation and malnutrition. Prime agricultural lands in Third World countries have increasingly been converted to the production of cash export crops by vast transnational agribusiness firms. Wh ...

Now what could this mean? TV crew stopped from taking samples from polluted Florida beach. Pat Gonzales, US Fish and Wildlife (to WEAR ABC 3 reporter taking a sample from polluted beach): "You can not come out here and do your own investigation if you're looking for oil product." WEAR ABC 3 Is the government protecting the sovereign state of BP? Is a pattern emerging? It seems so. In addition to chasing off ...