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Reactor Reax: Nuclear Energy Reporting This Week

The latest stories from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The nuclear industry is seeking to capitalize on legitimate concerns about climate change in order to gain access to the federal, state and local subsidies necessary to prop up this mature but uneconomic energy industry.

Marijuana Dispensaries and Marijuana Plantations: Can We Have Both?

For marijuana criminals, 99% of the time the crime is only for using and it is probable many are using for medical purposes.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I was about to write a critique of the Measure 74 fiasco based on the OPED advocacy article in The September Oregonian titled Regulation is the Key for Supplying Medical Marijuana.

As a Marijuana doctor of about 5000 patients and sometime user of Medical Marijuana after studying the pharmacology for 50 years, I think I know a little about this.

The Empire Has No Clothes

The U.S. stated a commitment to dialogue with human rights groups prior to the review in Geneva, but failed to respond to human rights groups who as a result, were excluded from participation.

(LOS ANGELES) - Last month, representatives from the U.S. State Department submitted to the first-ever international review of the U.S. human rights record.

Running a highly charged gauntlet of criticism, the U.S. response with a display of a curious combination of concern, denial and self-congratulation.

The Last of the Veils are Slowly Dissipating

History teaches us that when we discount what people are able to do, we are almost always wrong.

(BETHLEHEM) - The extent of the Arab governments' conspiracies against their own people and sub-serviance to the US and Israeli governments was known to most people. But the documents released from Wikileaks simply confirm and extend this knowledge.

For example, we now know how a Mr. Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese official ran around to the US, France, Saudi, Jordanian and other officials to mobilize against Hizbollah's fiberoptic network in Lebanon.

A Crisis of Epic Proportions

There is an old expression that says, “What goes around comes around.”

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Last October my wife and I happened to be in Berlin on German Unity Day (Einheits Tag). The German Capitol City was in a party mood with tchotchke vendors and food booths and temporary beer and soft drink kiosks set up all along the Scheidemann Strasse.

The autumn weather was perfect while we listened to the symphony orchestra practicing Beethoven’s Third and Ninth Symphonies. After munching on currywurst and fisch semmels and drinking a couple of half liters of locally brewed pils beer we headed off to explore more of the city.

Obama to Netanyahu - `You Win`

Priority number one is preventing the final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

(LONDON) - Those of us who are associated with the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, and who call for justice for the Palestinians, now have reason to say “Thank you” to President Obama.

With his decision to abandon efforts to persuade Israel to renew a freeze on illegal settlement building on the occupied West Bank, he has proved that the makers of American policy for resolving the conflict are Israel’s leaders and their lobby in the U.S.

After Galloway, Ken O`Keefe Under Fire at HTT (Hasbara Think Thank)

"With people like you in the movement, who needs Zionists!"

(LONDON) - To Mary Rizzo: I was part of the R2H convoy and I can assure you that you have got your facts regarding Strofades IV incident very wrong.

The truth will set us free indeed and when it all comes out I hope you will be big enough to apologise for your vicious attack on Ken O'Keefe...

Congress - Rep. Harold Rogers Contributions / Selected as Appropriations Chairman

Includes a list of the top ten contributors to Rogers' campaign by interest group:

(BERKELEY, Calif. MapLight.org) - Kentucky's Harold Rogers has been chosen to lead the Appropriations Committee -- the most powerful committee in the House of Representatives -- according to an article by Bloomberg Businessweek.

GOP Rep. Rogers was elected to the House of Representatives in 1981 and has served on the Appropriations Committee since 1983, according to the Congressman's website.

American Exceptionalism Revisited

The U.S. can boast of having the most expensive military in the world because we allocate almost as much as the rest of the world combined.

(APTOS, Calif.) - A plethora of wantabe presidential candidates is on the road again, beating the drum for American exceptionalism, a warmed-over rehash of bravado, jingoism, and chauvinism.

This latest superpatriotic call attempts to revive a concept resurrected from the dustbin of history by George W. Bush.

PTSD: VA Failure and Veteran Alcoholism

PTSD and alcoholism in veterans are connected.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I don’t remember if I was surprised that the Army trained its recruits to be alcoholics but reminiscing of my experience in basic training and advanced infantry training it certainly seems so.

No recruit ever considered after the first week that basic would be easy and certainly NOT fun. We were psychologically and physically stretched beyond NORMAL limits and many recruits died.