Like Joe Stalin at his most deranged, Donald Trump has pitched atomic power toward the abyss.

And we are all attached. 

New US nukes have been priced out by solar, wind, geothermal, battery storage, efficiency, conservation.

More than 90% of the world’s added new energy capacity is renewable. 

BUT Trump’s billionaire backers owe huge inventories of coal, oil, gas and uranium.  They're desperate to cash out those fossil/nuke assets before renewables “strand” them all.

That they kill the planet—and us—is of no apparent concern.

And their decoy—nuclear power—is dead-ending.  

Zero large atomic reactors are under construction in the US.

The final four have failed.   

Two unfinished $9 billion reactor corpses lie dead at VC Summer, SC. 

Two more at Vogtle, GA, cost $40 billion and 14 years to build. 

Now they can’t compete with renewables, burn at 300 degrees Centigrade, spew radioactive carbon and waste. 

Unproven, uninsured Small Reactors can’t impact our energy supply for a decade or more.  

Soaring costs and failing production schedules have already sunk early deals. 

In thinking about my own views on the American Empire, I considered the process of changing my own views. This after being told that I never I change my views. Not true, as I once believed that Oswald shot Kennedy, which means in retrospect I believed the most obvious (albeit state supported) lie in history, but later came to understand that Kennedy was a threat to the Military Industrial Complex and the secret, permanent government.

Basically I have reversed my opinion on Russia-gate. I once believed it was obvious that Putin supported Trump's election in 2016 by hacking the Democratic Party server and releasing information damaging to Clinton's campaign as well as using social media to break away Bernie Sander's supporters by amplifying our hatred of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party elite. I certainly believed it without reservation during the impeachment trial.

We start with MIMI GERMAN and her laureate poem, as always.

Then we hear from “America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT of the latest miasma from Waldport, Oregon.

Legendary democracy activist JOHN BRAKEY tells us of his anti-democracy arrest in Las Vegas.

Former Arizona state Senate president & Secretary of State KEN BENNETT gives us the 5-point program to guarantee American rights.

Gerrymandering expert MIKE HERSH gives us a report on the latest assault on our right to representative government.

Legendary activist MARION EDEY chimes in with support from John & Ken, and a call for a memorial service for the late great BOB ALVAREZ.

We then turn to the legendary nuclear guru ARNIE GUNDERSEN who fills us in on the sorry state of collusion at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

From western Michigan we get deep reportage from the great ROGER RAPOPORT on the insane attempt to re-start the Palisades reactor.

From southern Ohio VINA COLLEY gives us the latest nightmare at the Piketon uranium nightmare.  

From GRETA MALAISE we hear of the gutting of New York’s farmer’s markets.