John LaForge

2 months ago | counterpunch.org | John LaForge

The head administrator of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, Jill Hruby, seems to have confirmed the transfer of new U.S. nuclear bombs to air bases in Europe as part of the quaint-sounding “nuclear sharing” program. In remarks to the Hudson Institute January 16, Hruby said, “The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully forward deployed, and we have increased NATO’s visibility to our nuclear capabilities,” etc.

Jan 16, 2025 | hometownsource.com | John LaForge

I.F. Stone famously said, “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” The aphorism applies well to nuclear reactor operators, including Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently granted Xcel a second license extension for operating its 54-year-old Monticello reactor on the Mississippi River in Minnesota. kAm%96 564:D:@? H:== A6C>:E E9:D vt ;2=@AJ[ 2 uF<FD9:>2 4=@?6[ E@ CF? F?E:= :E’D g_ J62CD @=5 — 2 52?86C@FD 762E ?6G6C 366?

Jan 16, 2025 | counterpunch.org | John LaForge

Solitary nonviolent witness appears painfully ineffective in the age of state terrorism and vigilante shooting sprees. Yet Susan Crane of Redwood City, California, who will be released from prison in Koblenz, Germany Friday Jan. 17 after spending 7.5 months incarcerated over protest trespass convictions (and refusing to pay fines), has perhaps influenced thousands of people in Europe and the States with her example.

Jan 10, 2025 | counterpunch.org | John LaForge

I.F. Stone famously said, “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” The aphorism applies well to nuclear reactor operators, including Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Xcel a second license extension for operating its 54-year-old Monticello reactor on the Mississippi River in Minnesota.

Dec 12, 2024 | counterpunch.org | John LaForge

Japan has doubled down on the nuclear industry’s routine practice of spreading radioactive pollutants to public air space and to common waterways.[1] In addition to the pumping of tens of thousands of tons of radioactively contaminated cooling water to the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima-Daiichi reactor complex, the government has announced its intention to spread around the country as much as 14 million cubic meters of radioactively contaminated soil, reportedly for road-building,...